Posted on 03/22/2010 1:19:34 PM PDT by dan1123
So, yeah, probably why it works better.
No, for the punchline ~ did you know that over half the faculty at Princeton have an excuse for why they think Communism actually works!
Thanks for the post.
I have also read that ingestion of high-fructose corn syrup does not shut of the brain’s hunger stimulus system. In other words, when you think you are hungry and go eat something with the HFCS, you may have consumed enough calories that would normally satisfy the craving, but the receptors don’t pick up the HFCS, so you want to keep eating.
I guess when I want a non-diet soda I’ll drink Mexican coca cola. It’s sweetened with cane sugar.
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Down on the farm we use corn to fatten up hogs and cattle I could have saved those brainiacs at Princeton a bundle figuring out the correlation ...
Actually fructose comes naturally in fruit. Fruits that have fructose also have lots of fiber to slow processing of it. There’s nothing natural about HFCS because it’s all fructose, no fiber.
HFCS is definitely different, and anyone trying to claim that it’s the same as dissolved cane sugar, I’ll just ask them this: Can you make crystalline sugar (sucrose) starting with HFCS as the primary ingredient? If no, then it’s not the same.
Additionally, the industrial processes involved in making HFCS cause the production of agents which produce carcinogens. I don’t recall now, but I believe carbolic acid to be one of them.
Well, this is obvious. High fructose corn syrup is actually unhealthy.
Pepsi is currently marketing the version of Pepsi that is made with actual sugar and not syrup. Try one with sugar. Then try one with syrup. Then try to come back and tell me that HFC is still healthy to eat.
Not that I don’t believe food producers shouldn’t have the right to use it but I do believe it should have the same kind of warning label as products that contain olestra have.
The body processes fructose in a manner similar to how it processes alcohol—in the liver. Most of it ends up being stored as fat. Glucose, otoh, is processed by the pancreas and then used immediately by the body.
High f corn s bump
Whenever there is an obesity post on FR, we get responses saying a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.
This study seems to contradict that.
I really have no idea. If I did I suppose I’d be nice and slender.
That's the most interesting thing about this study. The HFCS-fed rats gained more fat around the belly even though they ate the same number of calories.
So, instead of allowing manufacturers to phase out HFCS because of the consumers inevitable cry to not eat HFCS - there will be a panel - an edict - a fine and a tax to rid HFCS from all corners of the earth. Just like Trans Fats.
Let the market sway with these studies
There’s a new one every week.....
Fickle Scientific Studies SideNote:
Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s there were studies after studies on the wonders of Bran - manufacturers jumped at the news and shifted their ingredients and marketing to tout Bran in just about every item they could adjust to add the magical Bran. Then the studies came out that it wasn’t so important and they moved onto another study. You can’t find Bran items anymore, except for ‘AllBran’
AFAIK, US big sugar (sucrose) is a protected industry. The commodity costs nearly double the world price. In comparison, here in Canada, sugar is priced at world market prices.
If the above is true, it’s no wonder that large U.S. food processors have substituted HFCS for sucrose, wherever they could.
I wonder why these studies weren’t run *before* HFCS was added to almost every processed food.
For me, this is “enlightening”. I’ve always said I can use as much sugar as I want - and gain no weight. Yet, other “things” instantly put on the pounds....I need to pay attention to the HFCS content and see what happens.....
Fortunately passover is soon so the Kosher for Passover coke/pepsi doesn’t have HFCS. (corn isn’t acceptable for passover for many Jews)
Do I need to point out that sugar tariffs are why sugar costs so much in this country? Pretty much every other country uses sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup.
Your government at work. They just want to protect you. And when that fails, they’ll pass another law to protect you from the adverse effects of the last law (which happen to be more severe than the adverse effects from which you were being “protected”).
And on and on and on.
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