Oh, boy. This ranks right up there with the Wakefield “study”. Pure junk science. I wonder how it got past the reviewers.
HFCS is just sugar. Table sugar is 50% each, glucose and fructose. Other commonly found sugars have varying amounts of glucose and fructose. HFCS is 40% or more fructose, the rest is glucose. The irony is that many people who have swallowed, hook line and sinker, the hype about the horrors of HFCS probably buy agave syrup as a “natural alternative” to sugar... agave syrup, which is almost all fructose.
I realize people want to blame something for autism. We don’t know what causes it yet, but it has all the characteristics of a genetic disorder.
High fructose corn syrup from GM corn, or non-GM corn?
Is there BT toxin or a metabolite/breakdown product in the new and improved syrup?
“I realize people want to blame something for autism. We don’t know what causes it yet, but it has all the characteristics of a genetic disorder.”
This is interesting
http://news.yahoo.com/australian-scientists-develops-genetic-test-predict-autism-084625097.html
“The test correctly predicted autism with more than 70 percent accuracy in people of central European descent, with study into other ethnic groups continuing.”
Well, the original study was published in the Clinical Epigenetics Journal.
Epigenetics is kinda sorta a little bit like our regular understanding of genetics.
But epigenetics has to do not so much with what genes you may or may not have, but which of those genes are or are not turned on.
And the turning on/turning off of the genes is highly affected by environmental factors.
“HFCS is just sugar.”
Highly concentrated sugar actually. The issue is not so much sugar which is not problematic consumed in modest amounts, but the very high concentration of sugar introduced when consuming HFCS products.
Just because a certain compound has the same name, same atoms and even the same structure does not mean it is 100% the same. There are far more properties of matter that we are only beginning to test for. I’m sure there are countless others that we don’t even know of.
Different methods of synthesis and production have long been known to affect the actions of drugs even though they appear identical when tested.
I’m sure the same would not apply to sugar and other compounds found in foods. For example, the fructose synthesized by the agave plant is surely different from the fructose found in processed HFCS.
How different or how it affects us remains to be seen. It is more difficult to study and confirm because foods don’t have as profound and immediate effect as drugs.
*the same WOULD apply
Thank you for being one of the few reality based people posting on this thread.