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Vast areas continue to be cleared for soy, beef, palm oil and other globally traded commodities. Much of this clearing is illegal, we are trying to put out a housefire with a teaspoon. – Frances Seymour	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are trying to put out a housefire with a teaspoon. – Frances Seymour	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I like a little bit of sugar in my tea, but I like one teaspoon, that was like a whole bag of sugar. It was getting so corny … we have to de-corny you. – Simon Cowell	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
A small sip, say a teaspoon which is 5 milligrams, exposes a child to the nicotine of several packs of cigarettes all at once, parents should know that the highly concentrated liquid nicotine used in e-cigarettes is a new deadly poison. – Kyran Quinlan	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I think a lot of people think that just because something is natural, it's healthy, so for example, honey is natural, but it's very caloric and a lot of people might not know that a teaspoon of honey, or agave for that matter, has more calories than a teaspoon of sugar or sucrose. – Lisa Drayer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This term about grams of sugar is so ambiguous. We try converting it into teaspoons so that people can really understand and see what a teaspoon is. So if you see on the back of a juice 20 grams [of sugar], divide that by four, and you know there's 5 teaspoons of sugar in that juice packet, and you'd never put 5 teaspoons in your cup of tea for your child, yet you'd give it in a juice quite easily. So people need to know that. – Damon Gameau	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The film is all about the hidden sugars. One tablespoon of barbeque sauce has 2 teaspoons of sugar in it. Things like ketchup have a teaspoon of sugar in 1 tablespoon. Low-fat mayonnaises, pasta sauces are [all] full of sugar, and they’re things that people would never consider. – Damon Gameau	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The main problem is that it is considered as a safe product because it is used for its hair effect, but people forget its main indication as a hypotensive agent, at therapeutic dosage, there is usually no serious adverse effect, but for a child, some milliliters or a teaspoon can lead to long-lasting hypotension. – Isabelle Claudet	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think from a medication safety standpoint you always have to have the lights on, read the bottle to confirm the medicine you want to take and use the correct measuring device, like a syringe that will say 5 ccs or 10 ccs as opposed to a teaspoon or tablespoon from the kitchen, it really doesn’t matter if it’s minoxidil (or another drug). – Michael Wahl	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Vast areas continue to be cleared for soy, beef, palm oil and other globally traded commodities. Much of this clearing is illegal, we are trying to put out a housefire with a teaspoon.

– Frances Seymour

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are trying to put out a housefire with a teaspoon.

– Frances Seymour

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I like a little bit of sugar in my tea, but I like one teaspoon, that was like a whole bag of sugar. It was getting so corny … we have to de-corny you.

– Simon Cowell

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A small sip, say a teaspoon which is 5 milligrams, exposes a child to the nicotine of several packs of cigarettes all at once, parents should know that the highly concentrated liquid nicotine used in e-cigarettes is a new deadly poison.

– Kyran Quinlan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think a lot of people think that just because something is natural, it's healthy, so for example, honey is natural, but it's very caloric and a lot of people might not know that a teaspoon of honey, or agave for that matter, has more calories than a teaspoon of sugar or sucrose.

– Lisa Drayer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This term about grams of sugar is so ambiguous. We try converting it into teaspoons so that people can really understand and see what a teaspoon is. So if you see on the back of a juice 20 grams [of sugar], divide that by four, and you know there's 5 teaspoons of sugar in that juice packet, and you'd never put 5 teaspoons in your cup of tea for your child, yet you'd give it in a juice quite easily. So people need to know that.

– Damon Gameau

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The film is all about the hidden sugars. One tablespoon of barbeque sauce has 2 teaspoons of sugar in it. Things like ketchup have a teaspoon of sugar in 1 tablespoon. Low-fat mayonnaises, pasta sauces are [all] full of sugar, and they’re things that people would never consider.

– Damon Gameau

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The main problem is that it is considered as a safe product because it is used for its hair effect, but people forget its main indication as a hypotensive agent, at therapeutic dosage, there is usually no serious adverse effect, but for a child, some milliliters or a teaspoon can lead to long-lasting hypotension.

– Isabelle Claudet

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think from a medication safety standpoint you always have to have the lights on, read the bottle to confirm the medicine you want to take and use the correct measuring device, like a syringe that will say 5 ccs or 10 ccs as opposed to a teaspoon or tablespoon from the kitchen, it really doesn’t matter if it’s minoxidil (or another drug).

– Michael Wahl

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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