Coca-Cola and sugar

jingl a bit like a door perhaps? Open, shut, half open, wooden or glass......

Is the opposite of a not open mind, a closed mind? Or is there a halfway point - a sort of squinting mind?

"Don't be silly now"

Typical.

Yes I know Elegran

Don't be silly now- YOU wrote the links are boring...

all I am saying is that some of us find the links interesting, but that someone just dissing them and repeating NO again and again is boring. Just be consistent, please.

Why do you always have to start bitching at me? It's always been the same hasn't it? Goes back literally years now.

And you think other people's posts on this thread are not boring? Just mine? Thanks for that.

My post was in response to this:

'Can't be bothered to read all these boring links.' and another post about waste saying just 'rubbish'. Jingl has made her opinion about sugar, carbs and calories so very clear, so many time- now that is boring for some of us, and serves no purpose to just repeat again and again. What is the point? Especially if not interested in reading about any evidence presented?

Thank you Bags. Couldn't have put it better meself.

Actually, gj, jings' last two posts express her perfectly reasonable opinion very clearly. I'm not sure she needs to learn anything new about sugar.

Jingl- just saying again and again that something is 'rubbish' and that you can't be bothered to read (learn) - is not really an 'opinion'- especially if repeated again and again. What is the point?

Discuss, debate, counter, disagree- all fine by me and all I am sure. To have an opinion, especially an informed one- needs indeed an open mind and agree to read evidence- even if to later counter it.

Otherwise it is just 'rubbish' as you so rightly say. And why is it a 'cheek' to give mine?

Yes, Anya but that has been extended by some posters to include carbohydrates full stop. There is a difference between fast-release carbs and slow-release carbs.

Elegran we're talking specifically about sugar, and sugared drinks in particular, not about carbohydrates in general. And how firms with a vested interest are involved in research.

I never used the phrase 'closed mind' that was your interpretation jingl

It is very interesting. I remember when someone showed that saturated fat was worse for you than unsaturated fat and keen people at once turned away from fat completely as sheer poison. Now it is carbohydrate that is the number one enemy. Next year it will be protein, or perhaps liquids. It seems that everyone is looking for a magic way to lose weight fast by eliminating some rogue element from their diet.

As far as I can see, the worst thing for weight increase is dieting - those who are always on some restrictive diet or other are the ones who put on most and have to go on another one.

You could say that handing out the tiny cans of Coke at Xmas helps to associate it with special occasions, rather than something to be indulged in year round.

And how do you know they do not offer the sugar free version? Which, so long as not drink excessively, is harmless?

"Closed minds" are what the hearers have when they won't give up their own opinions in favour of what someone wants them to think.

I certainly do not advocate a high intake of sugar by anyone. You are talking to someone who breakfasts on non-sugared wallpaper paste Ready Brek. I just don't see the point of going overboard and becoming obsessive about it. A bit of sugar occasionally will not harm an otherwise healthy individual.

Is not agreeing now to be classed as having a "closed mind"? I would have thought it was the opposite.

Bit pathetic there Anya.

Apparently flat Coke is great if you've had a 'tummy upset' (euphemism for a word I can never spell)

If it's blatant marketing, and I agree it is, does it matter? We should be teaching our young folk about blatant marketing and how to resist it/combat it.

A bottle of coke was very welcome to me twice in my life: once in Thailand when I'd run out of water, and once in a New York hotel when it's all there was when DH and I needed a rehydrating drink after a loooong flight and delays getting to the hotel. Foul stuff but it has its uses .

It's a blatant marketing ploy wrapped up as a kind gesture Eloethan - not a Richard Madeley fan at the best of times I always thought Judy was the brains of that team.

Not so jingl in fact if you kept an open mind you might find you'd learn something.

granjura I will state my views whenever and wherever I wish. I will certainly not ask your opinion Madam.

Bloody cheek.

Let's face it, most of this thread is just going round in circles anyway.