On Nov 20, 1:20*pm, "anorton"
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"Steve W." wrote in message
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PrecisionmachinisT wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:16:25 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
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PrecisionmachinisT wrote:
Destroyed by bad management and the inability to develop new
products that the market wants. Unions had nothing to do with
the downfall of Hostess.
Other than the refusal to go back to work, so they could fill
their contracted customers.
Between the stockholders wanting extreme profits and the union
pricing the obsolete products out of sight, the market dwindled.
The union strike was the last straw. *Like I said, I hope the
states deny any of them unemployment benefits because they walked
off the job. They quit. **** 'EM! *Let the union pay them until
they find burgerflip jobs.
You're ignoring simple drop off in consumer demand.
SEE
Buggy whips
WHAT DROP? The sales of Twinkies had gone up every year till 2011 when
they had a 2% drop (they sold "ONLY" 36 MILLION cases)
Oh and as proof that it is not WHAT you eat but how much you eat (IE
Lack of self control)
In 2010 a college professor named Mark Haub went on a "convenience
store" diet consisting mainly of Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos in an
attempt to demonstrate to his students "that in weight loss, pure
calorie counting is what matters most not the nutritional value of the
food". He lost 27 pounds over a 2-month period, returning his body mass
index (BMI) to within normal range.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08...sor/index.html
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Steve W.
Total sales for the Hostess group have been steadily droppinghttp://www.privco.com/private-company/hostess-brands-inc
Regarding Prof. Haubs demonstration, I presume he made sure to eat an
adequate amount of protein as well as other micronutrients. One issue with
junk food is that empty calories leave your body craving more food to get
nutrients that it is missing. Not all these nutrients can be found in a pill
either.
There are several other long term issues that his 2 month experiment did not
reveal. High spikes of blood sugar tend to trigger insulin resistance,
damage the blood vessels, amd contribute to fatty liver if you are prone to
that. The other issue is trans-fat. Twinkies are loaded with it. This is
used because it is not found in nature and it does not spoil because
bacteria do not recognize it as food. *The walls of all our cells are made
of lipid (fat) compounds. The trans fats replace the natural lipids when
cells divide leaving a component of our cells that has never existed in
nature in the 4 or 5 bilion years since the first cell came to be. Once it
is a part of your cells, you cannot get rid of it. Here is one of many
studies that show it does not seem to have good effects.http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/105/6/697.abstract
"There are several other long term issues that his 2 month experiment
did not
reveal. High spikes of blood sugar tend to trigger insulin resistance,
damage the blood vessels, amd contribute to fatty liver if you are
prone to
that. The other issue is trans-fat. Twinkies are loaded with it. This
is
used because it is not found in nature and it does not spoil because
bacteria do not recognize it as food. The walls of all our cells are
made
of lipid (fat) compounds. The trans fats replace the natural lipids
when
cells divide leaving a component of our cells that has never existed
in
nature in the 4 or 5 bilion years since the first cell came to be.
Once it
is a part of your cells, you cannot get rid of it. Here is one of many
studies that show it does not seem to have good effects.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/105/6/697.abstract"
I'm sure the unions can be blamed for this. ;)