More Americans developing gout; obesity blamed

Seeded on Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:40 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

— Filed under: health, diet-and-nutrition

key2joy

Wonder if Chris Christie has it...but as he would say,

"that's none of our damn business!!!".

1 vote

#1 - Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:43 PM EDT

Pinget

The writer left out another prevalent cause of gout - fructose. Thanks to HFCS the consumption of fructose in the American diet is high. See today's 'Half of Americans drink a soda every day' story. Ban HFCS.

#2 - Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:49 PM EDT

Atheismo

Ban HFCS.

HFCS is terrible, but nutritionally it's not too different from table sugar. Both are approximately 50% fructose.

Ban all sugar, if we're going to start banning foods.

I think education is probably the better answer.

#2.1 - Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:57 PM EDT

Leave a Comment:

You're in Easy Mode. If you prefer, you can use XHTML Mode instead.

Post to my Facebook Wall

Newsvine Privacy Statement

As a new user, you may notice a few temporary content restrictions. Click here for more info.

Discuss this post