Today's New York Times Magazine "Freakonomics" article from Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt spotlights a potentially very dangerous, health-destroying "accidental diet" that includes drinking a few spoonfuls of sugar water a day using granulated fructose.…
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76 - Rosalie Winston
When I saw Skinny Water at my local Super Target, I was skeptical and decided to research it myself. I must admit, I am a natural skeptic. I saw a lot of bad press about the water, which dates to about a year or so ago. I've read the opinions, but decided to try it anyways. They couldn't be even more wrong! Both flavors taste great, and they actually work! Yes, I've tried plain water with a tad bit of lemon juice -and it works as well, but for only 45 mins with me. But when I tried the Skinny Water, I wasn't hungry for 4 hours on average. This can't be the same exact product as all the nasty reviews indicates. Most of the comments in blogs are on average from a year ago. I am sure that this is a re-formulation, and have noticed that Jana isn't the company pushing the water. Big difference! I checked out their website at www.skinnywater.com, and don't see all of the conflicting information on it. I for one wil tell others about this product, because it DOES work and it tastes great. Just because the product has a stupid name, doesn't mean that that the product is a sham. I came across the water while I was at Target, who apparently launched the water on June 10th. Target is a respectable organization, and their legal department would've torn the research to shreds and not carry it if it was a sham. I'm not sure where all the research is coming from, because when you go to www.skinnywater.com, it's a fun, playful, encouraging site.
If you wanna try water with an all-natural appetite suppressant and a spash of fruit, visit: www.skinnywater.com -I've lost 10 lbs in two weeks with this stuff!
77 - Gunther
Connie you can only be commended for taking up this important topic. After being diagnosed for fructose mal-digestion I was forced exactly on the diet you describe. The result was almost a pound per week weight loss for a while while having a lot more energy. Researching the medical journal articles (the ones that are freely available) I came to the exactly same conclusions.
It is mind-boggling how many diet products are sold today in supermarkets which are "enhanced" with fructose in one way or another. The root cause is the sad calorie counting - fructose contains more sweetness per calorie than table sugar (breaks down to glucose/fructose) or pure glucose which is better digestible (but is a problem for diabetics). So normal sugar - which is bad enough - is replaced by something worse.
People needing to loose weight are mislead by those ready made "diet" or "sugar reduced" or "low calorie" products and others may even be forced by lack of results into unhealthy eat behaviors including anorexia.
78 - Ilya
A simple glance at the forums on Seth's site will show you that 1) the diet works and 2) most people now use olive oil. So this post is reactionary, wrong and fairly useless.
79 - lol
Olive oil is so disgusting!
I tried drinking it with water right now and almost got sick -_-
80 - Hansel
Whoops! Looks like the boys from Freakonomics have an update.
81 - Gotta be kidding
First of all the study everyone is quoting about the rats and triglyicerides...from what I understand they were fed SIX TIMES their body weight in fructose. Okay, if any animal was six times their body weight in any substance there are going to be problems. Secondly, the study this author has linked to is providing added and addtional 25% of their daily calories in Fructose...who does that? Look at these studies closely. It would be nice if they would show on Pubmed who funded the study... and what their bias' were before the study.
This author then quotes Ralph Bianchi, who sell his own "drink" mixture and who has been held up as some2 example to looks at? Good grief he works with pharmecueticals and and he is a MARKETER first and formost...look at his video.
Do your own research...don't take someone else's word for it...especially this author or Russ Biachni. Hi mixes his research up..first he's talking about corn syrup, then HFCS, then fructose...he makes some good points in his video and I'm sure he's trying to do the right thing...but in the process, he's hurting others and passing along incorrect information.
82 - sally
Possibly you're against Seth's conclusions about sugar's use in the body because it seems to contradict your interest in asserting the evils of fructose? Seth never presents sugar as an innocent substance he has merely made the observation of an effect it can have on the body. The most recommended amount by Seth 3tbs is about 35 grams or the same amount of sugar as that found in abount three sodas. Unlike drinking three sodas, Seth maintains that the sugar water should be ingested after and before a definite period of eating food so that no flavor associations are made with the sweetness. This is the key... there is sweetness but no flavor with the sugar water. It is this key that Seth contents sets off some primordial mechanism that registers a set point. Seth does not recommend eating an amount of sugar any greater than most Americans ingest now, if anything his conclusion is that by lowering one's set point one is in better control of how much and what one eats, and is not over-run by cravings for sweets or fats because the body is tricked into thinking these are satisfied. I am no way an advocate of Seth's diet, but do want to clarify those points of his argument I feel have been misconstrued.