{"id":12946,"date":"2009-09-08T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:30:27","slug":"sugar-information-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/08\/sugar-information-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Information, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice examples of the evolution of the diet industry and the role of businesses in trying to market their products as dietary aids (found <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1313845.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1527359.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12945\" title=\"3864247223_1dc3403645_o\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/3864247223_1dc3403645_o.jpg\" alt=\"3864247223_1dc3403645_o\" width=\"422\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/3864247223_1dc3403645_o.jpg 497w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/08\/3864247223_1dc3403645_o-355x500.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fine print:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone knows sugar contains calories.\u00a0 So it\u2019s hard to think of sugar as a big help in weight control, yet that\u2019s exactly what sugar can be.<\/p>\n<p>When your <em>blood sugar level<\/em> is low, your appestat is turned up and you\u2019re hungry.\u00a0 (Probably tired, too.) Just a small amount of sugar, in a soft drink, candy, coffee, or tea, will turn your appestat down.\u00a0 Then you\u2019re not so apt to overeat, and overeating is really what makes you far.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to helping with weight control, sugar does other good things.\u00a0 For one, it gives you quick energy.\u00a0 Sugar is <em>all<\/em> energy, and is taken into your blood stream faster than any other food.\u00a0 So when sugar turns your appestat \u2018off,\u2019 you might say it \u2018turns you on.\u2019\u00a0 Artificial sweeteners don\u2019t affect your appestat and have no energy value.\u00a0 Also, sugar tastes good, and so do foods made with sugar.\u00a0 Stay with sugar.\u00a0 Sugar\u2019s got what it takes!<\/p>\n<p>Only 18 calories per teaspoon\u2026<br \/>\nand it\u2019s all energy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NEW (Dec. &#8217;09)!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17653\" title=\"500x_1966_sugar_ad\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/500x_1966_sugar_ad.jpg\" alt=\"500x_1966_sugar_ad\" width=\"417\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See also our recent post on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/25\/commercials-news-and-commercial-news\/\" target=\"_self\">marketing disguised as news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice examples of the evolution of the diet industry and the role of businesses in trying to market their products as dietary aids (found here and here): The fine print: Everyone knows sugar contains calories.\u00a0 So it\u2019s hard to think of sugar as a big help in weight control, yet that\u2019s exactly what sugar can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,98,2124,253,23705],"class_list":["post-12946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dietexercise-industry","tag-capitalism","tag-foodagriculture","tag-history","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}