We are fortunate today to have the Internet for research. We are otherwise pretty much on our own to determine safety in our foods.
I drink very little soda these days, and then only the brands Jones, from Canada, or Polar Classics from the USA, both bottled only in glass and with sugar.
I read labels of everything and won't touch anything with HFCS.
Even the FDA, which is normally in bed with the chemical companies that now make the ingredients our foods are riddled with, says “Products containing high fructose corn syrup cannot be considered ‘natural’ and should not be labeled as such, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said. “
But if the truth and wide spread warnings follow the norm, it will be another 20 years, and many ill-effected lives, before anything is done to curb it...or until the chemical moguls come up with another profitable chemical...
“Exactly - there is a reason some countries ban HFCS - wish we did - but the criteria is not what a substance will do to the consumer but how will it make money for the producer...”
(Awaits arrival of free-choicers/govt. has not right to ban crowd)
This is one of the few very useful applications of govt. if you ask me, especially as there are plenty of available and affordable alternatives out there.
White refined sugar (white death) is the worst thing there is.
Even nuclear waste decays faster than refined white sugar. Even though your body does absorb it, you deplete your bodies calcium, minerals, vitamins and amino acids doing so, and weakens your imune system.
It is the bad part of corn syrop. For that reason, corn sugar/syrop is only half as bad as white sugar.
Pure fructose should always be your first choice of sweetener, it is the natural sweetener found in fruits.
http://naturalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/sugars__the_bad
The Internet is such a great multicultural and diverse tool for research nowadays, that you can find support for whatever position that you can dream of taking.
there is a reason some countries ban HFCS - wish we did -
And “ban” what after that, cigarettes, alcohol, firearms, automobiles?
There are a lot of things out there that hurt our health and cause death. Giving the government the power to start banning things is not the answer.
Voice your opinion through the free market. Buy something else.
By the way, the mere consumption of sugars does not cause diabetes in and by itself. High consumption of sugar combined with morbid obesity, lack of exercise, a trauma to the system, and, often, this combined with drug and/or alcohol abuse is the only correlation between sugar and diabetes.