Posted on 07/20/2013 12:28:18 PM PDT by neverdem
The mean fructose content in the HFCS used was 59% (range 47-65%) and several major brands appear to be produced with HFCS that is 65% fructose.
This is what nails it for me, a brand new liver pathology.
Steatohepatitis in obese children: a cause of chronic liver dysfunction.
It's variouly called non alcoholic fatty liver disease, NAFLD, or non alcoholic steatohepatitis, NASH, or hepatic steatosis. A rose is still a rose. Pathologists are notorious for differing among themselves about describing particular biopsies, but they do agree that these liver biopsies are not normal. It was not described before HFCS came on the scene in soft drinks. None of those diagnoses are in my medical dictionary or my pathology book, both from the 1980s.
Sugar is bad, all sugars, in excess. My concern is that in demonizing HFCS, we let regular sugar off the hook. Atkins somewhat had the right idea, and the paleo/limited carbers do more so as well.
Considering that our cells depend on sugar for energyVery few of our cells depend on sugar for energy. Most of our cells will burn sugar, when it is present, because sugar causes no end of physical damage, if it's levels are allowed to get too high, or if it is allowed to hang around too long. But there's a huge difference between cells will preferentially burn sugar, when it is present, and cells depend on sugar.
It was to me, but only through own fault.
I was on the road every day, had a one hundred mile commute each way. And the days were hi-level negotiation stuff until late night. Some times lunch, but mostly had no time for anything but a pizza slice or a jacket pocket full of jellybears. Yum :).
Back in 1972, when Atkins published his diet, the push to beef feed lots and battery caged hens was just beginning.
He didn’t stress the importance of seeking our quality in the foods he recommended, because the quality of ordinary foods was nowhere near as bad is it is now.
Why does it seem that it is often the healthy organic no sugar no white flour types who end up with cancer just as often as the coffee and cigarettes for breakfast, soda for lunch and something lacking in vitamins for dinner crowd? It seems that moderation in everything is the important thing. Also why is it that since corn syrup, which replaced sugar in many foods as both cheaper and supposedly healthier, since then folks are heavier then ever. Hmm, could it be because corn is a starch used to make both animals and underweight humans heavier.
I’m sorry but I’m not going to giving up kissing the spouse. I’ll take my chances with sugar.
While I do believe that refined sugar is not good for anyone, however, sucking on a piece of fresh sugar cane is ok, the reality is that anything can be toxic, including water. People have OD’ed on water.
Today, we add sugar in one form or another to the majority of processed foods we eat—everything from bread, cereals, crunchy snacks and desserts to soft drinks, juices, salad dressings and sauces—and we are not too stingy about using it to sweeten many raw and whole foods as well.We add sugar to skim milk, because otherwise people won't drink it. Skim milk is naturally blue, watery, and chalky. What is on the market isn't skim milk, it's skim milk to which additional non-fat milk solids have been added - including quite a bit of sugar.
And the really neat thing is that because the sugar that is being added is milk sugar, the FDA doesn't require manufacturers to include it as an ingredient on the label.
which is why I purchase things that do not use corn syrup ..... When I want to use corn syrup for cooking (say a pecan pie), I have a small bottle in m,y pantry.
I have found that if I cook and eat the way my parents did I do just fine
Try living without it.
Oops you can't.
The body requires sugar in one form or another for energy.
Therefore the question is stupid.
Now you can ask if certain sugar delivery systems are better for you then others but that doesn't sound as sexy I guess.
LOL!
Post of the day!
Just another reason I drink whole milk or water...
What about all the excess fat in our diet, so much of which is paired with sugar and contributes to heart disease?Easy - there's never been scientific evidence that showed that increased amounts of health fats (which is all of the except for trans fats and processed vegetable oils) results in an increased risk of heart disease.
I'll eat, smoke, and drink what I please, and the nannies can pound sand.
/johnny
/johnny
blushing red then green as in envy ... much better here than mine, am an amateur.
BFLR
HFCS is a problem. The body does not digest syrup as well as it absorbs a few teaspoons of cane sugar that have dissolved in food.
“A few journalists, such as Gary Taubes and Mark Bittman, have reached similar conclusions.”
Well, that cinches it for me - sugar is bad!
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