Comments on: Will the Real Raw Sugar Please Stand Up?

By: Teresa L

Teresa L — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:33:48 +0000

Where is the answer? I don’t see a link anywhere.

By: Wendi Wilkins

Wendi Wilkins — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:00:21 +0000

Your posts aren’t individually dated, are they? We can search for a month, but within that month we can’t go to a specific date, can we? If not, how do we find the answer to your sugar question?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:42:22 +0000

Sucanat isn’t really raw sugar.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:47:04 +0000

i hear the argument against milk (only humans drink another species’ milk) a lot, but it’s not true. Dogs, cats and bears drink milk if they have access to it — they just don’t often. It’s clearly not meant to be drunk often by carnivores, based on what happens to them when they get too much, but humans are not carnivores. Even a vegetarian is an omnivore, they just don’t want to be.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:58:16 +0000

My apologies, I realize this is off the raw sugar topic, but I just can’t leave this alone.

I was lactose intolerant as a child when I consumed pasturized milk, but had no problems with the occasional raw milk we obtained. It was the pasturized milk that “exploded through” me. Some, like Sally Fallon, suggest that it is the dead bacteria in pasturized milk that causes the problem, not lactose.

Excrement also consists largely of dead bacteria. Isn’t that an interesting connection?

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:46:51 +0000

Actually, most mammals will drink the milk of others if milk from their own kind is unavailable. Humans are also different from other animals in many ways. We have the ability to reason and project into the future. We also rely on the industry of others to provide our sustenance, and as a society are willing to consume an awful lot of engineered crap that no living creature was ever “designed” to consume. Edible petroleum products anyone?

By: Andrea Quiceno

Andrea Quiceno — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:15:43 +0000

I realize this is a few years old, but I’m reading it because I had a discussion with a friend yesterday about howI had heard agave nectar was bad. Anyway, what is the suger answer here?

By: Candy

Candy — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:05:43 +0000

What about coconut sugar or perhaps I should say coconut crystals? How does this measure up? Are they still fructose, still taxing on the system overtime?

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:03:10 +0000

Good point about milk and our consumption. I’m lactose intolerant. During a university health course I read how our bodies were never meant to be able to digest cows milk. They only reason (most) people can is because of high consumption over time. Asian countries where dairy is rarely consumed have high rates of lactose intolerance. I used to live in Korea and dairy was extremely expensive.

By: Rani

Rani — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:51:11 +0000

My guess is that none of them are raw sugar.

Bryan, interesting treatise on lactose vs fructose, I’d never thought of it that way. But if you’re going with what Mother Nature intended, she certainly never intended us to drink the breast milk of other mammals. Cow’s milk is designed for calves. We are the only creatures who drink the milk of other animals and the only ones who drink it past the age of weaning.