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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by elorant on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:17PM (#20140811)
Thanks but no thanks. I'm a moderate consumer of wine and I just love it. It's good for health, it supplements food in a great way, it rarely gets you drunk and it tastes great. Sure, if you can't hold your liquor eventually it will kill but so will do everything you eat or drink if you consume it in great quantities.
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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by jsty on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:25PM (#20140866)
Would limiting alcohol advertising really have that dramatic an effect on the 'good' wine market? I can't recall the last time I bought a decent bottle of wine because it was advertised.
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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by elorant on Sunday June 09, 2019 @05:34PM (#20142072)
Yes because I don't trust reviews. I do on the other hand trust specific brands that I've tried before. So if they have a new label I'd like to know it. And the best way to know that is from ads on printed magazines.
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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by cataphract on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:49PM (#20141054)
Do wine tasting events count as advertisements? That's how I and many people try new wines.
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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by fuzz4lyfe on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:32PM (#20140933)
A small amount of wine has been shown in small scale studies to have a moderate health benefit (though it's possible that's due to economic factors), most wine users consume far more wine than was studied.

Enjoy your drugs, but don't kid yourself that you are consuming bacteria excrement for your health.

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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by michelpp on Sunday June 09, 2019 @02:39PM (#20140995)
Yeast are fungi.
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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by pfortuny on Sunday June 09, 2019 @03:10PM (#20141197)
Every edible thing comes from the excrement of others.

Do you eat yoghourt?

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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by AnimalMuppet on Sunday June 09, 2019 @03:25PM (#20141299)
Potatoes, corn, or wheat, where the field was not fertilized with animal excrement? How does that come from "the excrement of others"?
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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by amanaplanacanal on Sunday June 09, 2019 @08:17PM (#20142800)
Where do you think the nitrogen came from in those fields? Everything is recycled, eventually. As they say "We are stardust"
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Re:Is it time to treat sugar like smoking? by AnimalMuppet on Sunday June 09, 2019 @08:25PM (#20142837)
Dead plants/animals != excrement, though. "Excrement" was the claim.
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