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 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).
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 ...
as a way to thwart declining sales...
HFCS is pure poison - not to mention one of the main causes of the great incline in obesity in this country in the past 3 decades.
Most other countries wont allow it.
Take Coca Cola, for example, You can't get it in the U.S. without HFCS - unless you're close enough to the borders of Mexico or Canada and can pick up Coca Cola bottles - AND ALSO ONLY IN GLASS BOTTLES - bottled for those countries.
Here, even with a gerzillion different kinds of Coca Cola, they don't even give us one choice with cane sugar.
Pepsi, at least, is testing the waters and offers Pepsi "Throwback" - made with "REAL" sugar, but that means it's probably beet sugar. You want CANE sugar. Beet sugar in GMO'd. Look for the companies that say CANE sugar. And they TASTE better too.
So - instead of at least offering us a CHOICE of HFCS or cane sugar - they are trying to call HFCS by another name.
PUt a chart of the rise of obesity and the increased use of HFCS together and they are identical.
Where's madam "Food Czar" on THIS issue. Instead of telling us, as individuals, what we can and can't eat, do what we can't do ourselves - go after the manufacturers who market poison in their foods.
It's not just in sodas and juices and candies and gums - it's in just about anything pre-made. And it wrecks havoc on your health, not just obesity.
Which crony industry, corn syrup or sugar, will the FDA side with?
My bet is corn syrup, since it inhibits health and, therefore, supports the drug and death industries that are the core back-scratchers of the FDA.
So how is the suit classified? Alienation of confection?