Posted on 07/21/2010 4:47:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Great post! Very informative!
My copy of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be missing some pages...I can find nothing in it to explain/justify the actions of the government in this nanny-state bullshit.
It also disturbs me that the damned liberal media refuses to write these stories as they should be written.
For example, the use of the phrase: "plans to increase funding", should plainly say what it is...that goobermint boobocrats are throwing our tax money down a cesspool hole in an attempt to make irresponsible people happy.
I protest the use of my taxes for such crap.
But...I have been protesting this silliness for a long, long time.
I'm just a racist that wishes bad fortune on people less fortunate than I.
Woe is me.
The government loves to tell people what to do to improve their health - unless it’s about the behavior that leads to AIDS.
“Americans ought to go after the U.S. Congress.”
A statement that can be applied as the solution to every problem.
Interesting, informative article by Walter Williams. Thanks for posting.
It was like pouring corn syrup on one's salad. The THIRD ingredient was indeed CORN SYRUP. It would gag a maggot!
Don't ever buy WISHBONE dressing!
Great column! Actually, I read about the sugar manipulation and the ADM connection back in the late 70s (I think), but this is the first column I’ve seen that sums up the problems with HFCS! Needs wider distribution.
Don’t tell me what to do! /s : )
The dairy, corn, and sugar lobbies have a lot to answer for!! Why is Sebelius picking on US?
If the government is serious about the eating habits of Americans, then it should start with the food stamp programs. Remove “junk food” from the approved items that can be purchased with my and your tax dollars. Between the food store lobbies the professional non-working class, this idea will be killed in a matter of days.
This is why I always go nuts when some level of gov’t starts fulminating against “sugary soft drinks” — soft drinks with actual sugar are scarce as hen’s teeth nowadays! It’s all HFCS, except for those bottled in Mexico or the Coke put out for Passover.
The sad thing is many products use corn syrup in place of olive oil. It is both cheaper to manufacture and it can then be advertised as 'low fat'.
Wrong. Bulk sugar is sucrose, a disaccharide consisting of a covalently linked glucose and fructose molecule. In other words, table sugar is 50% fructose. Glucose is not sold in supermarkets in bulk. Anything sold as "fruit" sugar is pure fructose.
I love Walter Williams, but I don't buy this whole high fructose corn syrup thing.
Our diets have always contained varying amounts of fructose. It's present in fruit, honey, and vegetables.
The way most studies are designed, the links they find are dubious, to say the least. Without reading the study in question, I'm going to have to make an educated guess and say that they actually found a correlation between a shift to a more sedentary lifestyle and the shift to use of hfcs. Correlation =/= causation.
I have a statistician friend who spends her time looking at studies and trying to find links between various parameters measured in the study. As a hard scientist, I can only look at what she does and say that it doesn't look like real science to me (and I can tell her that, because it's not a criticism of her work, but of the MDs who design these studies thinking they're doing real science).
People wanting to avoid heart disease, diabetes, and weight gain need to change their lifestyle. Simply avoiding any product with fructose isn't going to do it, especially if the avoidance consists of avoiding hfcs in favor of sucrose. They need to eat less across the board, focus on eating healthy food (no junk food), and exercise.
“Glucose is the sugar sold in 5- or 10-pound bags at your supermarket that Americans have used as a sweetener throughout most of our history.”
It’s hard to take an article like this seriously when they repeatedly get the basics wrong - cane sugar is SUCROSE, not glucose. HFCS contains varying proportions of glucose and fructose. I’ll leave the very complicated discussion of the metabolic system to others who actually understand it, unlike me.
Simple fix, abolish the tariff on sugar. Shoosh, isn’t Mars in Chicago? Why haven’t they been paid back by Mr. Skittles?
You beat me to it.
Just doing a little reading on the subject, it would appear that if consumption of HFCS is bad for you, then so is the consumption of sucrose. In large quantities, that is. These sugars (glucose, fructose, and sucrose) have always been a part of our diets from various sources in fruits and vegetables, honey, and maple sugar, but not in the massive quantities we consume today.
Yeah, but HFCS is 55% fructose so it's bad. LOL!
Good luck with a rational argument on this board.
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