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Comment But they don't use less... (Score 1) 926

table sugar: 50% sucrose, 50% fructose
HFCS: 45% sucrose, 55% fructose
It's not really a big deal. Yes, you'll increase your fructose intake 10% if you eat the same quantity as "sugar", but HFCS tends to be considerably sweeter, so you'll probably be using less and at least partially offset the difference.

Can't remember the name of the documentary I watched but it reported that, despite it being sweeter than standard sugar, the big drinks companies put far more HFCS into their products than they need to.

Comment Re: Seriously? (Score 2) 343

Did you miss that if you eat them all at once, they will stick together in one clump and therefore none would be in an "adjacent track of intestine". Although, I would think that just having a, effectively solid, chunk of indigestible material the size of several buckyballs may be a problem in of itself.

Not if you test first like the monkey ;-)

Comment Re:SI vs. US customary? (Score 1) 247

I love the units used in the summary title. Kilomile? A better statement would be Megameter.

Kilomile = 1000 miles.
megametre = 1000 km.

Last I checked, a kilometre is much shorter than a mile...

And a kiloleague would be even longer ... but the point I assume the GP was making is that it seems stupid to use an SI prefix with an antiquated unit of measurement.

Comment Re:Apple bashing (Score 2) 452

Anywhere in Australia can be dangerous if you get stranded, because it's hot and dry.

... and animals that are trying to eat you everywhere, as far as I've heard.

Do you actually know what the most dangerous animal in Australia is, i.e., the one that kills the most humans? One that killed around 100 people in one year alone? You may be surprised.

Comment Re:First Post (Score 1, Informative) 123

Has the current Slashdot readership really become so retarded than unfunny jokes like this, repeated for the n-millionth time, are still getting modded up to +5?

How the mighty are fallen.

Are you suggesting that many of the slashdot moderators use similar criteria to judging novelty and inventiveness as ....?

Comment Re:But that's not the real problem. (Score 1) 1651

It could be, except that the level of cycling dropped massively after the helmet laws were introduced.

(For further references on that, see comments from others elsewhere in this article.)

That could also be due to (a) the initial cost at the time and that the only thing, IIRC, that was available was that 'ultra attractive' stack hat (b) the fact that people are just generally lazy and couldn't be bothered.

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