Resolution - Reneged!
So I gave up on my youtube resolution, mostly because I'm quite busy lately. In the next few days I'll compile links to all the videos in case anyone cares about the ones that I did do. The likelihood is that they don't.
It was a much more difficult task than I expected, mostly because the comments were so similar. It's hard to squeeze something funny or interesting out of "omg lol" over and over again.
In other news, liz_marcs has a post about the recent "study" that found mercury in products containing High Fructose Corn Syrup. I suggest reading her post on the subject, and you can find my comment on it partway down. Suffice it to say, I find the study itself to be hardly representative. Most places citing it don't seem to notice that it's a Pilot Study
As far as I could tell from the study (and I do admit to being very sleepy as I read it), they took twenty products from 3 regional factories, tested them for mercury, and found some in 9 of them. Of those nine, some had as little as .065 millionths of a gram (SMALL), and the highest has .570 millionths of a gram (small, but big enough to conceivably be a problem).
This would be roughly akin to me getting a spoiled carton of milk at the local supermarket, telling a friend, and then having my friend run into the streets screaming that all milk all over the world is spoiled.
All this pilot study has shown is that it's worth checking into the manufacturing process of HFCS. The HFCS itself is as good or bad for you as the common alternative, sugar. It's just cheaper, and has a slightly different fructose/glucose ratio, but I've never read anything that suggested the HFCS itself was bad for you. Even this study only showed that the manufacturing process is what led to the potential possible mercury contamination.
So yes, a full study is worth doing, but until then, we don't need to be chicken littling that we're all going to die from mercury poisoning.
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to drink some Dr Pepper.
It was a much more difficult task than I expected, mostly because the comments were so similar. It's hard to squeeze something funny or interesting out of "omg lol" over and over again.
In other news, liz_marcs has a post about the recent "study" that found mercury in products containing High Fructose Corn Syrup. I suggest reading her post on the subject, and you can find my comment on it partway down. Suffice it to say, I find the study itself to be hardly representative. Most places citing it don't seem to notice that it's a Pilot Study
As far as I could tell from the study (and I do admit to being very sleepy as I read it), they took twenty products from 3 regional factories, tested them for mercury, and found some in 9 of them. Of those nine, some had as little as .065 millionths of a gram (SMALL), and the highest has .570 millionths of a gram (small, but big enough to conceivably be a problem).
This would be roughly akin to me getting a spoiled carton of milk at the local supermarket, telling a friend, and then having my friend run into the streets screaming that all milk all over the world is spoiled.
All this pilot study has shown is that it's worth checking into the manufacturing process of HFCS. The HFCS itself is as good or bad for you as the common alternative, sugar. It's just cheaper, and has a slightly different fructose/glucose ratio, but I've never read anything that suggested the HFCS itself was bad for you. Even this study only showed that the manufacturing process is what led to the potential possible mercury contamination.
So yes, a full study is worth doing, but until then, we don't need to be chicken littling that we're all going to die from mercury poisoning.
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to drink some Dr Pepper.