alt.energy.renewable

On Jan 26, 4:11=A0pm, Fran wrote:
> On Jan 26, 1:38=A0pm, Mishagam wrote:
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> > Solar Flare wrote:
> > > Sugar is food. Food is comprised of nutrients for the human body and
> > > sugar is one of our prime nutrients. It may not be a good food (one
> > > lousy nutrient) but still is.
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> > > You can't make up definitions to support your arguments. You can try.
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> > > "Fran" wrote in message
> > >news:1a61c702-7e8e-4cfc-a83d-190c8c93cabd@c4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com..=
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> > > No, you missed the point. Sugar is not food. Therefore lands set aside=

> > > for the growing of sugar is not land set aside for raising food. If
> > > this land is used to raise biofuels, it is not at the expense of land
> > > used to raise food. So using this land (and any other lands used to
> > > raise non-foods) can be applied to raise biofuels without affecting
> > > food prices.
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> > > Fran
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> > Yes, telling that sugar is not food is hilarious. in USA many people are=

> > obese, so they would be better of eating less not only sugar, but also
> > meat, bread, milk, potatoes or any other food. Does it mean that there
> > is no food production in USA? or should we count only salad and apples
> > as food?-
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> Sugar is not food because the nutrient it provides (carbohydrates) is
> a bioavailable constitutent in other foods that carry a far greater
> range of important nutrients and because the form of the carbohydrate
> imposes demands on body metabolism that don't apply when eating whole
> foods.
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> Westerners should also eat far less saturated fats and of the fats
> they do eat more should be HDLs (high density lipoproteins). Non
> pregnant or lactating women and children aside,

OOPS!! Mea culpa ... should read:

Pregnant or lactating women or children aside ...

(they need slightly more protein per unit of healthy body mass)


> about 1 gram of
> protein per kg of bodyweight is about right -- (assuming one's BMI is
> in the normal range).
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> No more than 10% of ones calories should be in fats and most of one's
> carbohydrates should be complex carbs, ideally eaten as part of foods
> with various grades of fibre (soluble, semi-soluble and insoluble) so
> as to moderate the speed with which sugars are released. Care should
> be taken to eat so as to ensure common micronutrient deficiencies (Zn,
> Ca, Fe, B12,, C and E) are present. .
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> If westerners did this, they'd be a good deal more healthy than they
> are now and a rather smaller quantity of land would be be required.
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