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Jan 3 2009
10:40 am
Blue Cross Blue Shield needs to check their nutrition spreadsheet
By: R. Neal

Speaking of pie and nutrition, Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN put out a newsletter with some info on watching sugar in your diet.

According to this helpful chart, jelly, pumpkin pie and milkshakes defy all known laws of nutrition and physics.

I'll let you do the math. Hint: A teaspoon of sugar has 4 grams of carbohydrates (basically pure carb) and 16 calories. There are approx. 6 teaspoons in an ounce.

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Anonymously Nine's picture

New math

Submitted by Anonymously Nine (not verified) on Sat, 2009/01/03 - 10:45am.

Pretty funny. The 10 oz. malted milkshake would weigh 7.4 pounds.

BoB W.'s picture

Real Math

Submitted by BoB W. (not verified) on Sat, 2009/01/03 - 1:01pm.

Hey Nine:

It's even funnier than you previously thought!
Aren't fluid ounces (e.g. teaspoons, etc.) a unit of volume & NOT a unit of weight (such as pounds, which is proportional to mass)? Or, is there a more current system of measurements that I have not been introduced to?

Anonymously Nine's picture

Liquid sugar

Submitted by Anonymously Nine (not verified) on Sat, 2009/01/03 - 1:38pm.

Of course, I should have been thinking of liquid sugar. Maybe they use corn syrup? I must not have been thinking progressively.

Tennessee Jed's picture

Missing a decimal?

Submitted by Tennessee Jed on Sat, 2009/01/03 - 7:06pm.

Is there a decimal missing or something? Because like Mr. Neal points out there is a volume problem, unless there is a way to compress sugar. I think compounded sugar is what we drink at a bar.
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Trying to not make matters worse.

Stick Thrower's picture

Whacked

Submitted by Stick Thrower on Sun, 2009/01/04 - 5:39pm.

46 tsp. of sugar would be about right for an entire 8 oz. JAR of jelly.

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