Posted on 05/22/2011 1:27:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
Why don’t the sugar companies get congress to drop the high tarriffs and subsidies and compete in a free market ...
Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
Study shows fructose used differently from glucose
* Findings challenge common wisdom about sugars
WASHINGTON Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found.
They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.
More here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/02/cancer-fructose-idAFN0210830520100802
The FDA has stuck its nose in regulating everything else why not HFCS? Could it be that Archer Daniels Midland and the corn lobby have powerful friends in Congress and deep pockets for campaign donations?
I once tried to grow sugar, but the plants were too crumbly.
There has to be a connection between HFCS and the obesity-diabetes epidemic. That would be because HFCS just about completely replaced natural sugar as a sweetener when the epidemic took hold. It would be amazing if it is a coincidence.
I see that Dole is now listing “Sugar” as an ingredient. But I don’t trust them. Might still be HFCS. And, the new “Sensations” line is awful!.
Sugar prices are significantly lower here in Canada, than in the U.S. We don't subsidize the (beet) sugar industry, nor protect it with special tariffs. Most of our sugar is imported, at the world price — which is a lot lower than the protected price big sugar extracts from the U.S. consumer and tax payer.
The protectionism for big sugar resulted in the switch, by big food processors, to “corn sugar” (HFCS). HFCS (produced from the product of yet another heavily subsidized agribusiness) is cheaper than the overpriced sugar.
Government policies created the artificially high demand for HFCS. Now, ironically, more government intervention is being demanded to fix the problems that government intervention created.
You summed up the issue more succinctly than I; and have (IMHO) identified the only solution.
“The protectionism for big sugar resulted in the switch, by big food processors, to corn sugar (HFCS).”
The other way around. See my related post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2723427/posts?page=40#40
I found some Mexican Coke at Sam’s. It’s made with real sugar. My brother has found some Passover Coke (also made with sugar: kosher, unlike HFCS: not kosher).
***I once tried to grow sugar, but the plants were too crumbly.****
I never could get the cubes to sprout.
Sorry. I misread your post.
Got the picture?
How can this be? The anti HFCS folks claim that there is medical and scientific proof that HFCS is the cause of everything except athelete's foot. Rotting livers and mercury poisoning are killing half of the population, all due to HFCS.
Yet, in this article we have the "possible" role of HFCS in obesity and other health problems. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm ...
Then we agree ... sweet.
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