Especially when consumed with Jack Daniels, Bacardi,...
Everyone who eats carrots WILL die.
If the government would just stop the big tax on imported sugar, we could have healther sugar in our Coke and Pepsi.
Let them end the corrupt sugar subsidies and we can have sugar again. Of course high fructose corn syrup is bad. Anyone ingesting the stuff is not smart. You have choices even if your government is limiting them.
Try calling your representative (Dem or GOP) and see what they say when you ask them to introduce a bill ending price supports for sugar.
I think it was 1985 when they told me that the coffee and eggs I consumed almost every morning would kill me within five years...
“High fructose corn syrup, which is linked to obesity”
Look how propaganda works, everyone. It’s so easy, and you can do it, too!
Hey, you think there’s a “link” because possibly, maybe, kinda, sorta, it’s in a lotta food and fat people eat a lotta food? Sounds reasonable. But not as sensational as the implication that people who otherwise would be of healthy weight are now fat because they were ambushed by secret corn syrup.
By the way, since when was it the job of science to find “links.” I thought they were all about cause and effect.
On the serious side, HFCS is starting/continuing to get heightened attention as both a potential toxin and as a cause for obesity. Yes, toxin, because, according to the following, it metabolizes *exactly* like ethyl alcohol, except it metaboizes in the liver/gut instead of in the brain. Which means it produces no high. Few would argue that ethyl alcohol is not a toxin. When HFCS (or sucrose, for that matter) breaks down in the body it follows a chemical path remarkably parallel to that of ethyl alcohol. (If you believe the contents of the following video)
This is a longish 1:30:00 talk by a Doctor Lustig from the Univ. of CA regarding his findings on HFCS and sucrose. I found it worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&feature=player_embedded
This not being my area of expertise, I’m posting it without any particular position on the topic. I found it quite credible. I’d appreciate any FReeper comments on the content.
Where I used to work at before, I would drink 5 or 6 sodas a day for a few months. I got up to over 300lbs. I then stopped drinking sodas for a few months and lost around 30lbs.
HFCS is the problem.
I ain't skeered.
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How could anyone think that severely processed and concentrated sugar is benign?
The Brits did a study years ago about HFCS and determined that it signaled the liver to store fat. The high dose rats in the study got so fat their hearts exploded.
That one got buried by the HFCS industry who is selling 6 million tons of it annually.
Soon all you’ll be able to buy at the supermarket is an empty box.
New evidence that green tea may help fight glaucoma and other eye diseases This press release has the URL for a FReebie. Copy & paste if you want.
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Sweet problem leaves bad taste
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fyi, food safety legislation coming up in the Senate soon.
Sugar,or Sucrose, is broken down by the body into Glucose and Fructose, but only to the point that it can use both. HFCS is already broken down so the body is flooded with excess Fructose and Glucose and has to do something with it, so it converts the excess to fat.
The article talks about Fructose, but excess Glucose is also a player. There is lots of good science around the health problems with HFCS, to the point that I avoid it and have told my friends to do likewise. I have an MS in Chemistry so follow what is new in science daily. HFCS is not good and will be the next tobacco for tort lawyers. Coke and Pepsi will take big hits.
Aren’t we using Fructose corn syrups because of the weird sugar supports? Time to bring back real sugar...