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Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
Princeton University ^ | March 22, 2010 | Hilary Parker

Posted on 03/22/2010 1:19:34 PM PDT by dan1123

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To: dan1123

I wish they’d do a study on ethanol.

A local snowmobile rental place lost 6 machines in one weekend to this stuff. Of course the renter had to pay.

Many more stories of marine motors lawn mowers etc.


21 posted on 03/22/2010 1:43:56 PM PDT by devistate one four (If you can't feed it, don't breed it! Kimber CDP II .45 OOHRAH! TET68)
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To: muawiyah

fructose corn syrup is made in the lab by moving i think hydrogen ions around.

Nothing natural, not like natural fructose.


22 posted on 03/22/2010 1:44:55 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
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To: devistate one four

What do you mean they lost the snowmobile?


23 posted on 03/22/2010 1:46:19 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We have the government we deserve. Is our government our traitor?)
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To: wideminded; dan1123; USFRIENDINVICTORIA; muawiyah; James C. Bennett

It’s cheaper.

Here’s some other reasons to get it out of your diet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html


24 posted on 03/22/2010 1:47:53 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Chickensoup
fructose comes from plants ~ corn fructose comes from corn ~ corn is a plant ~ now, contrast that with chemical synthesis where we start with raw atoms and build up.

i think it makes more sense to point to the communist leanings of princeton professors, don't you

25 posted on 03/22/2010 1:48:23 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: dan1123
Wanna bet researchers at Indian, Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska are busy working on a well-reached paper refuting this finding?

Of course the research material will be held to the same high standards as those of East Anglia University. ..... /sarc

26 posted on 03/22/2010 1:49:18 PM PDT by pointsal ( try MagicJack if you have had enough of Verizon)
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To: wolfcreek
the warshpost article said "mercury is toxic in all forms" yet we know from research that the most common forms aren't even metabolished by human beings and just go right on through back into the drink.

you need a better reference eh.

27 posted on 03/22/2010 1:49:51 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: dan1123

The amount of kilocalories expended in physical activity plus the amount expended in resting metabolic rate (including futile cycle) plus the amount expended in the thermic effect of a meal (TEM) plus the amount of energy put into storage either as glycogen or fat must equal energy intake to maintain weight or exceed it to lose body weight. The only way that the rats could gain fat when fed exactly the same kilocalories as other rats that had no weight gain would be for the HFC to cause them to perform the same amount of physical activity with much less energy use or to cause them to reduce their overall level of physical activity or to significantly reduce their resting metabolic rate or futile cycle for generating body heat from brown fat. Although rats, like other animals and unlike man, may be capable of de novo lipogenesis from carbohydrates, they cannot gain fat with no change in their kilocalorie intake unless they have a corresponding reduction of caloric expenditure.


28 posted on 03/22/2010 1:49:58 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: muawiyah

Fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup are not the same thing.
http://www.epinions.com/content_4312834180


29 posted on 03/22/2010 1:50:44 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

the us sugar industry is protected. the us corn industry is not. nothing better for you than karo.


30 posted on 03/22/2010 1:51:26 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Persevero

Regarding “a calorie is a calorie is a calorie”...I’ve read extensively about this and it seems not all calories are equal. Most peoples’ bodies convert refined carbohydrates into fat much more easily than they convert fat or protein into fat. In addition, most people with weight problems simply like refined carbs more than other foods, so they ingest massive calories of them quickly. I believe 90% of fat people will never lose weight and keep it off unless they abstain — for emotional and physiological reasons — from refined carbs.


31 posted on 03/22/2010 1:52:46 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: brytlea
your reference is one of those "just so" stories that is based on the idea that human beings have to have sugar to survive.

they don't.

the natural diet of the Sa'ami consists of fish, reindeer and lingonberries.

your liver produces sugar just like that of the Sa'ami.

32 posted on 03/22/2010 1:55:02 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: dan1123

That’s what struck me. I had always thought maybe HFCS was worse because it caused insulin levels to spike and drop, making you want to eat more. But, different things react in our bodies in different ways. People who suggest otherwise are either mentally lazy or don’t know how the body works.


33 posted on 03/22/2010 1:55:05 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

As usual, if you look hard enough, you discover at the bottom of every problem in the US is Uncle Sam.


34 posted on 03/22/2010 1:56:07 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Chickensoup

I’m guessing the ethanol was consumed by the riders, not by the machines...


35 posted on 03/22/2010 1:56:08 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: brytlea
As usual, if you look hard enough, you discover at the bottom of every problem in the US is Uncle Sam.

But you're a "kook" if you're a libertarian and want to excise government from your life. Where's the cognitive dissonance? Americans used to say things like "No King but Jesus". What "loosertarians".

36 posted on 03/22/2010 1:59:09 PM PDT by MichiganConservative (A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
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To: muawiyah

Like this long winded article saying how tough we are?

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/latest-scare-du-jour-mercury-in-hfcs.html

After all the MMGW and Healthcare lying studies, you really wnat to take a chance? Something is making people sick and fat.


37 posted on 03/22/2010 1:59:20 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: muawiyah

Are you telling me that you believe that HFCS is simply fructose? I mean, you can insult that reference all you want, but answer that question. Are they the same?
And no, I don’t think people require sugar. I actually eat a low carb sugar free (most of the time, I admit an occasional lapse) diet.


38 posted on 03/22/2010 2:00:06 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: MichiganConservative

I’d love to get the govt out of virtually every bit of our lives and let people make their own decisions on what they eat.


39 posted on 03/22/2010 2:01:18 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: wideminded
I wonder why these studies weren’t run *before* HFCS was added to almost every processed food.

For the same reason we are not studing the effects of adamantium on humans.

40 posted on 03/22/2010 2:02:22 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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