[lacrew]

You’ll find that corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup have become building blocks for many of our foods: bread, peanut butter, mayo, tomatoe sauce...these are foods that aren’t normally thought of as being ‘sweet’. Corn syrup has become a major part of our diets (unless a very deliberate attempt to reduce it is made). It is both a filler and a sweetener.

I always think about cattle in a feed lot. They are fed corn to get fattened up...every time I drink a soda, I feel like I’m fattening myself up.

[Amendment10]

You’ll find that corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup have become building blocks for many of our foods:

Good point. I'll have to start reading all food labels.

[RedMonqey]

"I always think about cattle in a feed lot. They are fed corn to get fattened up...'"

Your analogy is not far off.but for different reasons than you think.

Sugar is is sugar in what ever form. Cattlemen put their livestock in a pen not only to control what they eat but to restrict their animals, described in the old days, "from burning off their tallow" i.e, fat.

People today are stuck in their "feed lots" by their sedate lifestyle and job requirements.

In the days when labor required physical effort a high calorie diet was quickly consumed by the bodies' demands for mantainence and repair.

Simply put we are eating like a field hand but working like a pampered prince.

[kabumpo]

Part of what is wrong with America. Get rye or pumpernickle bread from a real bakery. Don’t use peanut butter or ketchup - that’s children’s food. As for drinking soda, all I can say is bless my strict parents for never having it in the house - I never developed a taste for it.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“...every time I drink a soda, I feel like I’m fattening myself up.”

Every time you drink a soda...and it does not matter whether it is sweetened with sugar, HFCS, or any of the artificial sweeteners...all will cause weight gain. And the artificial sweeteners are pure poison...the will mess with your mind. Stevia is the only no-calorie sweetener that is safe, and it is the only sweetener that will not have a tendency to make you gain weight.

[9YearLurker]

Exactly!

What the heck is that stuff doing in peanut butter and tomato sauce? Yet, you’ve got to go out of your way now to avoid that.

[Ditter]

Corn in one form or the other is in a majority of products now. It really p*sses me off, I am allergic to corn in any form so I spend most of my grocery shopping time, read the labels! I am tired of it!