Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Think that all sugars are the same? They may all taste sweet to the tongue, but it turns out your body can tell the difference between glucose, fructose and sucrose, and that one of these sugars is worse for your health than the others...
...that's the case, then why the glut of blended sugars rather than pure glucose in our foods today? Glucose isn't as sweet as fructose, and because our collective sweet teeth have become accustomed to a certain level of sweetness, anything less might be unsatisfying. "The proportion of fructose in food probably hasn't increased that much, since high fructose corn syrup simply replaced sucrose in many cases," says Havel. "But people are also simply consuming more sugar in their diet." In fact, if you think that the study subjects drank way more sweetened beverages (25% of their daily...
...others have fewer inhibitions. Circles of people writhe, hands turned upwards, arms limp, like flower children from another decade. Ahhhhh, sweet liberation. A pair of music lovers cavorts by us, locked in mock battle. One shoots invisible missiles (an automatic weapon?) at the other, in time with Ratatat's pulsing guitar. The other falls to the ground, body trembling. His partner joins him. Lots of rhythmic twitching. The song ends. A final twitch. FlyBy thinks hard about the pros and cons...
...couldn't recoup its lavish costs, taking in $95 million in North America on a $150 million budget. The period boxing epic Cinderella Man, reuniting Crowe with Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard, made its expected impact neither at the box office nor with the Academy. Attempting to show his sweet, light side, he teamed with with Gladiator auteur Ridley Scott for the romantic comedy A Good Year; that sad misfire earned just $7.5 million in its entire domestic run - less than 17 Again did on its first...
...Thanks to increasing demand and poor sugaring weather in some regions over the past several years, retail prices have spiked to as much as $80 per gallon in some places. In the current sagging economy, that definitely counts as a sweet spot...