*related videos on sugar and health.

This particular one a must see imo http://videosift.com/video/Sugar-The-Bitter-Truth

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The Sugar industry makes something I like, Sugar! So why wouldn't I trust them? I mean I like TV too, it's always telling me about more TV that I should watch.

*controversy *news

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Correction: No one in America understands the metric system. The rest of the world doesn't have a problem. Granted this is an American issue, but still... use the fucking metric system America, is all I'm saying...

"Tastes like an elephant ejaculated into a bag a Splenda"

Now there's a tag-line I don't think the company will use.

Sugar cube = 4 grams

Another thing he kinda glossed over is this is ADDED sugar. Sugar that is only present to make a thing sweet. Not including the sugars present in the REAL ingredients of any of those items.

We'll start using the metric system when other countries start driving on the correct side of the road.

You better start using the metric system then.

On the other hand, the list of countries that don't use the metric system is:
- the US
- Myanmar
- Liberia

Oh yeah, that's a list you want to be on.... USA! USA!

To jump in on the left hand/right hand drive thing.

Figure most people are right handed. Early weapons, swords would be worn on the left hip to make it easier to draw. So you step up on the horse from it's left as the sword is in the way for getting up otherwise. Now as you ride your horse down the road, you'll ride on the left, as you want to keep approaching people on your right in case you need to respond to an attack, you are attacking them on your free side and not across the horse. So people get used to riding on the left of the road. This gives left hand drive a certain sense from a historical perspective.

Of course if you are driving a team of horses, then you are probably on the left rear horse, and for vision and control reasons, it's probably best to drive that team down the right side of the road. So a certain sense there too.

Then again, how often do you drive a team without a coach behind the horses? So why not drive from the right hand spot down the left of the road? Unless it has to do with the shotgun position, since then the person there has to shoot across the driver, in which case right hand drive once again makes sense.

None of which answers why some countries do right hand drive vs left. Did the US adopt right hand drive just to be different from the UK? Why did France adopt right hand drive? Did Napoleon's war efforts really lead to the rest of Europe adopting right hand drive? Sounds like an issue for CGP Grey to tackle...

Having driven both in Australia and Canada, I prefer the right side

I'm not saying you're wrong, but when I have gone to the renaissance fair, the jousting was always done riding on the right hand side, with the shield being held in the left hand and the javelin held in the right, pointed diagonally across the horse. IF they are doing it right, that seems to contradict your statement.

Actually, Jousting is different. That's battle. Passing oncoming horses to your left has to do with easily defending yourself when you're just travelling.

Yeah, as Payback noted, it's a different thing. A Joust is a rather long thing while a sword is much shorter and harder to fight across the hose with. That said my hypothesis could be very well wrong.

sugar->metric system->which side of the road to drive on->jousting

Fuck yeah, videosift... epic thread!

@RFlagg, I'm almost certain I read somewhere that Napoleon changing the road side is an urban legend.

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Just try and consume the WHO recommended sugar intake. About 24 grams per day. One can of Pepsi, 41 grams. Eat processed food and you will get up to 24 by breakfast.

"A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day would provide additional health benefits.

Free sugars refer to monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) added to foods and drinks by the manufacturer, cook or consumer, and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit juice concentrates."

It's possible, you just need to cut out sugared soft drinks and processed food (note: there's nothing inherently wrong with processed food, it just tends to contain lots of sugar).