Sugar=Mutations?
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People seem to have a fanciful view of the term, "Mutation". I blame comics.
Sorry guys, mutations are actually very boring. The kind of mutations your looking at is more of the variety, "More likely to get diabetes". Also, possibly Cancer. Now it just looks like your kids are also more likely to get diabetes, and you can more easily find warning signs in genes. No one is telling you to stop eating sugar, no one is saying that you will be a freak if you do eat sugar. Its giving more reasons against excessive sugar intake, and provide some tools for doctors.
Sorry guys, mutations are actually very boring. The kind of mutations your looking at is more of the variety, "More likely to get diabetes". Also, possibly Cancer. Now it just looks like your kids are also more likely to get diabetes, and you can more easily find warning signs in genes. No one is telling you to stop eating sugar, no one is saying that you will be a freak if you do eat sugar. Its giving more reasons against excessive sugar intake, and provide some tools for doctors.
Bull.
I eat sugar every day, and who knows how much sugar I just took in from sipping my Sundrop.
I also have not been sick in three years.
I eat sugar every day, and who knows how much sugar I just took in from sipping my Sundrop.
I also have not been sick in three years.
If I eat enough candy bars will I be able to fly?
This explains hyper boy... (Cookie if you get the reference without look it up!)
This explains hyper boy... (Cookie if you get the reference without look it up!)
Another day, another shock statistic which will scare mothers, make critics laugh and REAL scientists work out if it's true. You know how I can tell this scientist is fake? "Experimental Medicine". If it isn't proven, it isn't true, and how many three armed people do you know?
For those of you who heard the word mutation and thought third arm/eye/leg/head(yeah third not second), you've been playing too much fallout. It's refering to genetic weaknesess to diseases like diabetes. It's somwhat true, it really just means: If you shove sugar down your throat for twenty years of your life, then have a kid, he might have diabetes. But we already knew this...
Well in that case they are not guilty of fear-mongering, they are guilty for stating the obivous. Don't these people have better things to do, like get a cure for cancer?Sightless Wisdom said:
uhhh did you know eating ages/kills you? yep sure enough eating food will cause you to age so if you want to stay young don't eat. simple.
You see your body produces these molecules which humans have appropriately named free radicals. these molecules are produced when the mitochondrion in your cells produce ATP energy molecules from sucrose molecules. Free radicals are basically Oxygen atoms with too few electrons, if your remember any old basic chemistry class you would know that atoms seek equilibrium between the number of electrons protons and neutrons. When these free radicals are released into a cell they latch on and steal electrons from other molecules making them unstable. This process can cause a chain reaction that can rip cells to pieces. Then those destroyed cells need to be replaced, so other cells divide to fill in for the dead cell, this causes the cells to age.
Now how does this tie into the current discussion? well these free radicals can come into contact with DNA which is a molecular structure which is delicate and highly susceptible to being destroyed by free radicals. Thus technically by definition any piece of destroyed or altered DNA is a mutation... So eating sugar = mutations...
yeah most of the scientific world had known this fact for a while.
so why don't we stop trying to scare the shit out of people, and focus on something important like how to end world hunger?
You see your body produces these molecules which humans have appropriately named free radicals. these molecules are produced when the mitochondrion in your cells produce ATP energy molecules from sucrose molecules. Free radicals are basically Oxygen atoms with too few electrons, if your remember any old basic chemistry class you would know that atoms seek equilibrium between the number of electrons protons and neutrons. When these free radicals are released into a cell they latch on and steal electrons from other molecules making them unstable. This process can cause a chain reaction that can rip cells to pieces. Then those destroyed cells need to be replaced, so other cells divide to fill in for the dead cell, this causes the cells to age.
Now how does this tie into the current discussion? well these free radicals can come into contact with DNA which is a molecular structure which is delicate and highly susceptible to being destroyed by free radicals. Thus technically by definition any piece of destroyed or altered DNA is a mutation... So eating sugar = mutations...
yeah most of the scientific world had known this fact for a while.
so why don't we stop trying to scare the shit out of people, and focus on something important like how to end world hunger?
Why is every change in a contempory human physical form always a mutation? Do we see ourselves as THAT perfect that any change ever has to be a mutation.? Even in our media like with the X-men, they get extradordinary powers making them better than humans but are they are mutants. However, in this particular case something that lowers an immune system strikes me as a de-evolution. Now, knowing that Australia now has the most over weight people in relation to its population it could be an elaborate move of propaganda to actually help benefit the people by using words with such stigma as mutation.