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  1. Re:You're just gonna get another can of Coke. by denzacar · · Score: 1 · on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com)

    People generally drink their sodas in single-serve containers, which have a fixed number of calories and grams of various sugars.

    You are ignoring several things - mostly price, human need and desire for MORE and habitual consumption.

    Cans cost the most.
    They've even introduced a smaller can, supposedly reducing the portions - which costs more than the older one.
    And it doesn't take a lot of math to figure out that when faced with a choice of more for less versus less for more - most people will pick the bigger and cheaper option.
    AKA the "sharing" option.
    Note the attachment of "positive" verbiage to bigger packaging.

    On the flip side, you got those who would lie to themselves that they are drinking less so they are entitled to keep drinking coke.
    I.e. Having another one. One for the road. One to pick them up. One just because.
    I have a friend who does exactly that. To indulge that one small vice. And then when his wife is not around he buys the big bottle - to indulge some more.

    My dad does something similar - with booze. That was the Coke and Pepsi of his generation.

    The idea that 3.0 fewer grams of glucose is going to make people drink another can of soda that they otherwise would have skipped is a stretch - that's not really how people consume soda.

    It's not MAKING people drink more. It's ALLOWING people to drink more - while tasting better. I.e. Sweeter.
    Just like that old trick with trying to eat sugar with a spoon. Doesn't take much to "hit the limit" and give up on that.
    But mix that sugar into water or milk - and now you can drink it until your hands start to shake from all that sugar.

    Except it's not just any sugar that's making your hands shake - it's glucose.
    Reduction of the glucose part allows you to drink more before noticing that you've had way too much.
    But what the Coca Cola and others are doing is NOT reduction of glucose percentage but INCREASING of the fructose percentage - cause it is sweeter.
    That's the part that's making people drink more. Sweetness, but without the "hitting the limit" part - all packed with a big happy dose of otherwise bitter caffeine.

    I.e. These now generation's booze.
    We're chuggin that brown brew just like them older generations were slurpin their martinis and beers.

    already metabolizing nearly 60 grams of fructose - that additional gram and a half is a rounding error. A Big Gulp with pure sucrose will have the same negative effects.

    No. Do the math. It's not a rounding error.
    Multiply 42 by 1.31 (i.e. increase it by 31%). Compare the result to the HFCS 55 mix.
    Now compare that to the situation where the mix is equal.

    Also, there is fundamental flaw in your logic.
    ALL OF THAT SUGAR is not food calories - it's fat calories. All of it. Sucrose AND the HFCS kind.
    People simply don't treat drinking as eating. We drink many more times per day and much more than we eat.
    It's because we need water and we can't store it like we can store calories. It's evaporating out of our skin like crazy just sitting there.
    Turning the action of drinking into eating means that ALL the calories we may be getting from that are pure extra calories which will be turned into fat.
    Again... regardless if it is sucrose or fructose.

    The difference is that the glucose part of HFCS and sucrose WILL get burned up immediately and will make us want to eat less for our next meal.
    Fructose simply goes to fat. As long as there's any glucose in the system or any source of glucose in the system.
    Not until well into second day without ANY food will your body consume the glycogen in the liver (i.e. primary fructose storage) and not until you consume all that wil

  2. Re:The Current One... by AnonyMouseCowWard · · Score: 1 · on Thanks For the Logos; Help Us Choose a Winner

    I'm not sure what the source for your blogspot image is, but here's the UK Coke webpage. Notice the logo did change, perhaps not much compared to Pepsi, but it did.

  3. Re:They can block all they want by xaxa · · Score: 1 · on Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK

    Hmm...

    500ml of Coke in a bottle has 53g of sugar http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/brands/coca-cola.html

    500ml of Coke at UK McDonalds has 53g of sugar, so there's no ice http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/food/nutrition/nutrition-counter.mcd
    (They obviously serve it with ice, but that's not considered part of the drink for the nutrition info.)

    32floz = 946ml of Coke in US McDonalds has 86g of sugar, so there is some ice / extra water (otherwise it would be 100g of sugar). 86g of sugar is 811ml worth of Coke in a bottle -- still twice as big as a British medium coke, and 60% bigger than a UK large.

    Redoing my calculations taking the ice into account:

    At McDonalds (figures from the websites):
    - A "large" drink in the UK is 0.5L, a "medium" about 0.4L, a "small" 0.25L (Germany has the same sizes).
    - A "large" drink in the US is 0.81L, a "medium" is 0.55L, a "small" 0.38L, and a "child" 0.27L.

    That makes the US child size about the same as the UK small size.

  4. Re:Dramatic effect and scientific precision by teh+kurisu · · Score: 1 · on Is Sugar Toxic?

    Coca Cola uses sugar (so probably sugar beet) in the UK.

  5. Gah!! Thames Water by shabble · · Score: 2, Informative · on 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced
    From the article:
    CHEMISTRY
    The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, for using advanced technology to convert liquid from the River Thames into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers.
    I think if you look at the Guardian article more closely, it implies they used water supplied by the company called Thames Water, not water from The Thames:
    [...]It goes something like this: take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process[...]
    I do hope the people who selected these aren't doing any research papers on anything important.
  6. Have a Coke and a Web Site by TheCrayfish · · Score: 1 · on Bringing Interruption-Based Ads To the Web
    Let's try more esoteric examples: Coke, which sells a drink. Actually, they sell a lifestyle, in which the drink is part of the image and the taste. Create something hip and free for people to visit; web boards, movie reviews, hiking, bike, and rollerblade info sites, etc.

    Coke already does this, for the most part, especially in coutries where a large fan base exists for football (soccer.) Check out the giant list of world-wide sites for Coke shown below, especially the Taiwanese and Argentinian Coke pages, and the Australian diet Coke page.



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