curse sugar alcohols

[suz73084]

Okay, Katie Hellams is going to kill me for writing this but I'm going to take the risk...I have great news! I just saw on the news like 3 times today that starting next year McDonald's is going to put the nutrition facts on their packages...only a nutrition major would get excited about something like that! But it is exciting...right tara...amanda

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[jumpallbutone]

HAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA SUSIE SUSIE SUUUUUEEEEEE I LOVE ITT!!!!!!!! im so glad you told me that!! wowow mcdonalds is NASTY!! fkjaklfnlkdhfaofiorjflkan and i love ice cream and i get gas a whole lot!! ahahah all you have to do is stand on your head and it goes away =) oh, and are there any other health risk or whatever for eating sugar alcohols?? sugar alcohols are like saccrin and aspartame and stuff right??!

[suz73084]

LOL! Actually I remember one of you all saying something about standing on your head...but i just lean to the left and it comes out instantly! It's great! And to answer your question, saccharin and aspartame are sugar substitutes...not sugar alcohols...they are different. Splenda is a sugar substitute and I would die if it had the effects on me that sugar alcohols do cause I love Splenda! But it doesn't. There aren't really any health risk, just downside to them cause they give you gas and can cause diarrhea and stuff like that...not so fun. But I remember reading that you should avoid eating anything that has over 30 grams but I definetly didn't eat 30 grams...that seems like a lot! Wow...I feel kind of smart...maybe I am learning a thing or two!!

I could go on but I won't...:)

[jumpallbutone]

then what is a sugar alcohol?? do they have any other special or specific names?? i dont know what it is ahhhhhh sue you should go on about all the interesting things you learn. next semester i have advanced nurtition and i will tell you everything fun i learn, and i expect the same from you haha lovv eyou2111

[suz73084]

sugar alcohols are like sorbitol, mannitol, xyitol(I think that's how you spell it)...basically if you look in the ingredients list, anything that ends in "ol" is a sugar alcohol. I just looked it up in my book...it's the alcohol counterpart of carbohydrate but it's not an actual carbohydrate...if that makes sense. they add hydrogen to different sugars to produce the sugar alcohol. (ex. sucrose after adding hydrogen becomes sorbitol...which is the most common sugar alcohol by the way!) i hope that helped! and did you know that they are cavity preventing?! i thought that was interesting.

yeah you and tara better fill me in on things too!! the more you know the better!!! love you!

[taratlw]

awesome!! maybe some people will start eating healthier. i hate mcdonalds. it come from the devil. minus the parfaits. haha. i'm really glad you took the chance to tell us that, i'm super excited too! i think everyone shoud adopt this package labeling stuff. it's grrrrrreat! and aren't you excited that all nutrition facts labels are gonna have trans fats on the label by january!?!? i am. even though sometimes i think the labels lie. i read the ingredients and it says "partially hydrogenated oil" and if i'm not mistaken, that's trans fat and the label says 0g. they should at least but "a trivial amount" lol. a trivial amount can add up!! gosh, we need to sit down and talk about nutrition. hahahahaha

[suz73084]

hahahha...yeah we really should! yeah i think all the restaurants should put the nutrition facts on the packages, it would be much better or at least post them up in the restaurant somewhere...and even though i don't eat at mcdonald's very much..i'll give them a little bit of credit for doing this!

and yeah the trans fat is definetly hydrogenated oils...i don't know why they don't put it on there...it could be saturated fat instead of trans.... good question!!!

[taratlw]

my teacher was just talking about the mcd's thing. ahhahaaha YES

[suz73084]

AWESOME! I love it... :)

[taratlw]

i'm really glad you wrote about this. hhaha.a...now everyone sees what dorks we are! lol

[suz73084]

we are dorks aren't we?!?! oh well...you know they enjoyed reading all these comments!

[kaymsu821]

ok so you knew this was coming...right? susan's motto for life is "BE QUEER TODAY" and you have accomplished that for today. good job. you sure were spouting that crap out about nutrition. and i am proud of you. there is my good comment for the day. i told you that you would learn it and be able to tell people! yay for you. but was it really necessary to do it on LJ? come on. jk. i love you, even though you are neurotic at times. (i know i am too) XOXO

[suz73084]

Your right! I was waiting for it but I'm proud of you cause you were nice!! you know you would miss all my comments...well most of them. :)

LOVE YOU!!!

[jumpallbutone]

hahah she said "be queer today" what in the world/?!J!HJfjkdafhahf you are not queer and that is not your motto!! hahaha

katie hellems when is the last time you had 20 comments in one day?!?!?! hahaha i love you both and i think you are both learning awesome things and will one day be able to help people be healthy and lvie long healthy lives. ok haha lov ya

[kaymsu821]

haha...see i CAN be nice. but it doesn't happen very often, so don't get used to it.

amanda west, don't make me feel like a loser any more than i already am. NO ONE EVER comments on what i write. and like i have time to write anything now anyway. SO I DON'T FREAKIN WRITE! that's what happens when no one cares. gah.

just jokes. love you all...:)

[jumpallbutone]

susan. what?? 17 comments in one day. if you didnt feel cool before this, i sure hope you do now. i feel cool that i am a part of it hahah i love you sue!

[suz73084]

I SO feel cool! I seriously think that is the most comments I've ever had on one journal entry...haha. What's funny though is really there were only like 5 people who commented the 19 messages! But hey, I still feel special!!!!!!!!!!

[tellum_weezie]

20 comments all about nutrition facts at McDonald's....what is the world coming to....

um..i don't know if Sarah is coming..I tried to call her last night...but she decided not to pick up, but instead call me at freaking 2:30!!!!!!! So needless to say, I was in no mood to talk to her, or to ask her if she was coming or not...so we'll see later i guess lol

[suz73084]

haha...well I hope Sarah can come too but I'm excited that your coming! 2:30 in the morning...I wouldn't have answered...:)