[CDHart]

I believe this to be true. If you read labels, it's in a lot more than just soft drinks. I've gotten to where I don't buy anything that has high fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oils in it. Tends to limit your selections, and you end up making a lot of things from scratch.

Carolyn

[holymoly]

A sweetener commonly used in soft drinks and other foods may...

A new study suggests...

In other words, it's all conjecture.

[Mygirlsmom]

I wondered when they would get around to "tobacconizing" Big Coke and Big Pepsi - some really deep pockets here. Look for more stories about how these eeeeeevil corporations conspired to ruin the lives of little children everywhere.

[SMARTY]

They are not talking about diet drinks are they?

[Red Badger]

Humans are hunter gatherers form the savannahs.

Fructose is from fruit.

Fruit grows and ripens in summer to fall.

Humans eat in summer to store fat for the winter.

Fructose triggers the "fat Storage" genes.

Refined sugars don't.

Makes sense to me..........

would explain all those fat babies drinking fruit juices instead of milk........

[Ditter]

It is NOT just in soft drinks. It is in almost everything. Where I live there is only one loaf of bread that doesn't have high fructose corn syrup in it. It is in crackers, cookies, catsup, vanilla (I could go on and on) if there are more than three ingredient listed, then the 3rd is going to be high fructose corn syrup. I wish people would start to complain like I have. I am allergic to it so I must avoid it and it is very hard to do that.

[KeyWest]

With CAFTA, maybe we will get cheap sugar, like Mexico and Canada, and get rid of a lot of HFCS used in soft drinks.

The old, Coke with sugar was much better than the current with corn syrup. Lots of people go down to Mexico to buy it.

[okkev68]

I just have to say "DUH". Fructose is refined sugar. Corn syrup is refined sugar. It's cheaper to produce than real sugar and spikes your blood levels much faster.

We have worked hard to remove as much of it as possible from ours and our kids diet. But it is in everything. Bread, pop, jelly, even frozen dinners. If it comes in a box, it most likely has fructose or corn syrup in it.

One of these days, someone is going to have guts enough to expose the link between refined sugar and flour and the explosion in Type II diabetes.

[texas_mrs]

People from all over the US come to and order from the Dublin Dr. Pepper plant in Dublin, Texas to get their sodas because they are still made here with Imperial Pure Cane Sugar just as the original recipe called Taste is much better, too.

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

Actually, when you ingest plain sugar (Sucrose), a disaccharide, It goes through a process called "inversion". Where it hits the acid in your stomach and is separated into it's constituent sugars Dextrose and Fructose, the same 2 mono-saccharides found in the high fructose syrup used in beverages.

Sounds like scare tactics from an ailing sugar industry.

[martin_fierro]

Qualifies as "Overweight".