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vlad
on March 15, 2009
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Supermarket vegetables now 5-40% lower in nutrient...
If not, then why do nutritionists, athletes, diabetics, and bodybuilders favor sugar instead of HFCS?
Semiapies
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Vlad, that's an un-sourced argument from authority. (And particularly unconvincing authorities, in the case of athletes and body-builders, who have been known to jump on a lot of wild and often harmful nutritional fads.)
vlad
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That was the point--your arguments are unsourced. :)
Semiapies
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You can't source an absence of evidence.
vlad
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Please source your argument, that I am not allowed to appeal to authority or make bold claims without evidence, but you are. :)
rjurney
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Because its a marker for a junk food, but not literally the problem.
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