Originally Posted by Kestas
BHopkins, thanks for the article. It mentions there are no health benefits to using raw sugar over refined sugar. It also states the raw sugar is slightly less refined.
I ask because I see health nuts go ape over these things. I think people are crazy spending excess amounts of money for no real gain in nutrition.
I also see the same thing with salts. (Shall I start a new topic?) I've analyzed (using energy dispersive spectroscopy) some salts for their mineral content and see no appreciable difference in elemental makeup. Only tiny traces of a few other elements, which are likely overshadowed by these same elements present in our food in much more massive amounts.
It makes my head spin when health nuts start talking about healthy this and healthy that. I've even seen them poo-poo grapefruit, salmon, and other foods because of too much this and too much that in the foods.
One of my past co-workers ate some health foods. One day she mentioned that she only used sea salt, as it was healthier. I mentioned to her that, if my understanding is correct, all salt deposits on earth are sea salt. At one time or another, all salt has come from a sea. She didn't have an answer for that.
I'm all for eating healthy. But I think it takes a little bit of common sense. Several years ago I ran across an article about a study that was conducted by what I believe to be the British equivalent of the FDA. It was a study of the health benefits of organic foods. Their data came from something like 80 studies that had been done by organizations across the world. The conclusion was that there was no health benefit to organic foods. Or if there was, it was so negligible as to be statistically insignificant. But if a family feels better by serving them, then by all means, they should.