Posted on 08/03/2005 6:38:34 AM PDT by truthandlife
I am in your shoes too. I stopped eating out for the most part, buying prepackaged foods, and cooking from scratch because that was the only way I could control the ingredients. I can tell immediately if something has hfcs in it because I get extremely dizzy from the first taste.
Sounds like scare tactics from an ailing sugar industry.
No researcher will come out and declare an absolute, especially on a study like this. They might use stronger language in a journal-published paper summarizing a large collection of studies, but rarely will you get any scientist to refer to their results as "this shows definitively...". The media _is_ guilty of using waffle terms to sensationalize stories, but in science it merely shows the potential uncertainty of a finding.
I agree. I don't care if other people prefer that crap but it would be nice to have a choice.
I agree 110%.
I should add that part of this "obesity epidemic" is a result of the government constantly lowering the bar on what constitutes "obese". The current standard is based largely on the BMI, which is so imprecise it is virtually useless. As an example, Jay Cutler is considered "obese" in the below picture, and according to the CDC BMI calculator and categories, he is only 1.5 points below "morbidly obese".
The soft drink companies claim that there is no difference in the taste, but they're lying.
Recently, even the iced tea mix manufacturers have switched to HFCS. As a result, I no longer buy iced tea mix. It tastes awful.
I would be willing to pay more to get regular sugar.
The thing that amazes me is that high fructose corn syrup is in things that you would never think needed to be sweetened. Corn in any form gives me a headache, that means corn meal, corn flour, corn starch, corn oil as well as HFCS. If I ate any corn yesterday I would wake up with a headache today.
I wish people were more aware of the subtle way that food allergies can affect them. A food diary of what you have eaten and when can be a real eye opener. It is easy to do when you get in the habit of it.
I am too. Since I don't eat out as much anymore I have more money to spend on higher quality foods without breaking the food budget.
They don't put saccharin in soda anymore; unfortunately.
I swell up bad, get dizzy and fight ravenous cravings when I eat corn in any form. I am talking major fluid retention. The food diary was what helped me figure out a pattern. It's been the one tool that has helped me lose the weight. I get migraines from eggs, soy messes up my hormones, dairy and beef cause skin problems along with a few gastro issues.
When the light went on and I finally saw the correlation to my problem foods and how poorly I felt it was so easy to eliminate them. The way they make me feel is so not worth the few moments of eating them.
It was the elimination of those foods that allowed me to lose a LOT of weight fairly easily. I don't have the cravings or ravenous hunger like I struggled with before. My appetite is normal. It doesn't take much to satisfy and hold until the next meal hours away.
Bring back CYCLAMATES!!!!!!!!!!
My comment about "tobacconizing" is that we will now see a slew of lawsuits that claim "I couldn't help myself -I'm "addicted" to this product and evil Coke KNEW that it would happen and didn't do anything about it."
Agreed! See Post 73 below for the Dr. Muttly (played one on TV) analysis, and prescription.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1456053/posts?q=1&&page=51
Well, the study has some strong evidence for it, but in an article, the writer will still write it as if it has not been proven.
It doesn't mean it is just conjecture.
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