High fructose corn syrup is good for you!!!!!!!

[devilgrrl]

:sarcasm:

Let's not doing anything about it.

[neuvocat]

1. I have a glass every morning.

My day just isn't the same without the subsequent insulin injection.

[FtWayneBlue]

2. someone told me that many companies are using it because

it is habit-forming, but I haven't read up on it yet.

[mcscajun]

19. Companies use it because it is Cheap.

It's been that way since the late 70s - early 80s. US subsidies ensure an overproduction of corn; something needs to be done with the excess. It can't all be fed to farm animals or plowed under. HFCS was developed at the same time that demand for corn oil margarine declined.

Sugar got dropped in favor of HFCS as the primary sweetener in sodas, snacks, cereals, condiments, you name it, as being a more cost-effective sweetener, leading to higher profits. We as a nation consume far more HFCS than we do sugar. Its metabolic (all fructose is metabolized in the liver, whereas all of the cells of the body can metabolize glucose) and habit-forming issues are just side benefits to agribusiness. Check your 'health foods' carefully; it's in many of them, too.

[atommom]

3. And haven't you heard? So is toxic sludge. And Teflon.

:banghead:

And even if those things weren't good for you, it would be unreasonable to expect their manufacturers to stop using them. It might cut into their lobbyists' salaries. :sarcasm:

[Raster]

4. Yessirreee, Type 2 Diabetes is for Everyone!!!

[RobertSeattle]

5. Whatever happened to Low Fructose Corn Syryp?

:evilgrin:

[name not needed]

7. I pissed in it.

Yes, ALL of it.

[ironman202]

11. and that's not all

[name not needed]

6. God forbid someone point out gaps in your logic.

:eyes:

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Just as long as they don't point out the gaps in my teeth

[Beaverhausen]

8. Did you take a wrong turn on your way to the Lounge?

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Actually, this is a political issue.

Sort of.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618164723/102-4918939-0172112?v=glance

[Iris]

13. Yes. I saved an article a few weeks back in which the sugar industry

claimed sugar is NOT bad for you! Unfortunately, I deleted it on Friday while cleaning out my email acct!

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Even normal sugar isn't the same thing as HFCS

That "Fat Land" book, while spending (what I considered to be) a bit too much time being preachy at individual americans, also touched on how Nixon's Ag. Secretary and unfortunately named individual Earl Butz pushed HFCS into the American Diet, ignoring scientists who expressed some reservation about the absorption channels of HFCS into the body...

It's a decent read.

[musiclawyer]

15. I agree. Lounge lizards already know this

GD people need to get up on the HFCS learning curve real fast because it's a political issue and a public health issue. If we allow the corporations to sell us poison ,simply for a highter profit margin, they'll continue to sell it.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Fuckit, I'm waiting for super high fructose corn syrup

The old stuff just doesn't make my pancreas quiver with fear quite enough.

[musiclawyer]

12. I dare you to find one loaf of BREAD

at your local chain supermarket without HFCS. (Health food stores, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Wild Oats Market etc aside). Go ahead , try.

Same goes for sald dressing.

Now you know why poor, unread people are sick and fat.

[ironman202]

14. how can you take something pure and good like music

and ruin it by being a lawyer?

[musiclawyer]

17. You assume there is ruin involved

Lots of lawyers toil in obscurity doing only good things. Peace.....And stay away from HFCS or else risk becoming the named Plaintiff in the next big class action

[Warren DeMontague]

16. You can, but it takes a lot of looking.

Usually it's smaller, organic bakeries.

[NYC]

20. Read each flavor.

I recently wanted to buy Ranch dressing. The regular Ranch had corn syrup; the fat free Ranch had corn syrup. The "lite" Ranch did not have corn syrup.

The same for ice cream. Breyers vanilla and chocolate do not have corn syrup. Some other flavors do, including vanilla butterscotch (corn syrup being a standard ingredient of butterscotch).

Turkey Hill has vanilla and French vanilla. I believe one of them does not contain corn syrup.

So, within a brand, you must read the ingredients on each individual flavor.

I've been boycotting corn syrup for a while, and it's difficult.

[DELUSIONAL]

22. Ben & Jerry's Vanilla is safe

and so are a few other B&J flavors.

[SmokingJacket]

24. It's really difficult.

I could easily avoid it if I only had to worry about myself, but my kids are dependent upon Heinz ketchup to coat their organic chicken nuggets, and they also like bottles of lemonade, which also has it.

I even make my own ketchup and jam, partly to avoid the HFCS (partly because I like to) but making kids eat it is something else entirely...

[DELUSIONAL]

21. Sourdough -- SF style has NO HFCS

This subject is a red flag for me -- because HFCS is literally LETHAL to me -- in fact it was killing me until I realized that I had to read every single label.

The way this stuff is made -- it is pure synthetic - pretend sweet.

The alternative is to buy a bread machine and make your own bread.

Oh -- in the midwest -- not even Sourdough bread was free of HFCS -- but I did find some pita bread. Even crackers were loaded with HFCS. So I'd say that all diets are heavy in this synthetic garbage.

[WolverineDG]

25. nature's own healthline sugar free

what do i win? :evilgrin:

(took me 1/2 hour searching for it one day at the store but now it's the only bread i'll buy)

dg

[Moderator]

26. Locking

This was intentional flamebait.

DU Moderator