Its in the same league as trans fats IMO… should be avoided like a a bad case of crabs
"Chi-Tang Ho et al. found that soft drinks sweetened with HFCS are up to 10 times richer in harmful carbonyl compounds, such as methylglyoxal, than a diet soft drink control.[24] Carbonyl compounds are elevated in people with diabetes and are blamed for causing diabetic complications such as foot ulcers and eye and nerve damage;[25][26] there was no such link found in table sugar.[25]
“One study concluded that foods with increased pure fructose “produced significantly higher fasting plasma triacylglycerol values than did the glucose diet in men” and “if plasma triacylglycerols are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, then diets high in fructose may be undesirable”.[27] Bantle, et al. “noted the same effects in a study of 14 healthy volunteers who sequentially ate a high-fructose diet and one almost devoid of the sugar.”[28]”
[quote]Anonymous Coward wrote:
@johnward82
Given your outspokenness on the issue of eating natural, I can’t help but wonder; what’s in the two cups you’ve got in your avatar? Rum and unprocessed Coke? ;)[/quote]
Thanks for the laugh…i was um totally holding those disgusting free drinks loaded wiht HFCS for um…someone else…
[quote]irishpowerhouse wrote:
Its in the same league as trans fats IMO… should be avoided like a a bad case of crabs [/quote]
I think, if you look at everything that has been reveresed engineered, and then tried to recreate just as “healthy”
are never as healthy. instead of making a box of crap that is rich in this, engineered with that, added vitamen q, and whatnot to make this junk “healthy” for us, why dont we just eat what we know we should.
[quote]irishpowerhouse wrote:
Its in the same league as trans fats IMO… should be avoided like a a bad case of crabs [/quote]
‘nearly everyone in the field agrees that excess consumption of sugar, and HFCS in particular, contributes to obesity, and I think there will soon be a campaign to reduce it in our food supply, as there was with trans fat.’
from that Berkely wellness letter. It will be interesting to see if this actually occurs.
Not that its really worth much, but at least Jasons Deli is going down this road researching alternatives to HFCS loaded sodas, which I believe thier Dr. Pepper is the cane sugar variety.
I dont think though, that there will ever be a campain to remove these cheap calories from our foods, no way. They have to do something with corn…they have to move it…what else can they do with it?
Fuel, Food, who knows but its not going anyway IMHO unless we make the change ourselves but buck the industrial system as much as possible. Again…not going to happen on a grand scale.
[quote]johnward82 wrote:
Not that its really worth much, but at least Jasons Deli is going down this road researching alternatives to HFCS loaded sodas, which I believe thier Dr. Pepper is the cane sugar variety.
I dont think though, that there will ever be a campain to remove these cheap calories from our foods, no way. They have to do something with corn…they have to move it…what else can they do with it?
Fuel, Food, who knows but its not going anyway IMHO unless we make the change ourselves but buck the industrial system as much as possible. Again…not going to happen on a grand scale.[/quote]
For the sake of our children I hope your wrong, even though realistically I agree with you. But if smokers can sue and win against tobacco companies maybe a class action lawsuit against the makers and users of HFCS would win too. Let’s sue the shit outa Little Debbie!!!
LOL Their marketing targets children!!! Proven to be extremely unhealthy!!! Leads to obesity which in turn leads to a myriad of life ending/shortening diseases!!! I think there just might be a case there!! Any lawyers in the house???
This isnt meant to be an attack on america, but being from australia, when I visited the country I noticed your meal sizes are FREAKIN HUGE!!!
Maybe thats why so many americans are obese? So if you combine this with the cheap manufacturing of food, thats a pretty deadly mix.
But then again so many australians are obese too.
[quote]brancron wrote:
nycsoccax wrote:
brancron wrote:
^ Why do you want to avoid HFCS in your ketchup? Would you settle for regular sugar instead? WHYYYYY?
Wtf? I want to avoid HFCS in general. I wouldn’t want to use regular sugar either. You’re weird.
I started this thread not help you find the ketchup of your dreams, I started it to hear people’s opinions on the health effects of HFCS compared to those of regular sugar sources.[/quote]
hahahahahahahaha. This post cracked me up 
[quote]ibanezrg320 wrote:
But then again so many australians are obese too. [/quote]
I have to say, when I was in Australia I was appalled (and that’s not a word I use very often) with the size of the people there. Before moving there (Newcastle), the thought of stealing a grocery cart in order to not have to carry my food home hadn’t even occurred to me.
I soon learned that there’s a guy whose complete job description is to drive around in a truck and pick up abandoned carts in front of houses, so that they can be brought back and used again by the same customers.
I intended to describe some of the excesses of mass and flauntings (real word?) of sloth that I witnessed, but I just can’t bring myself to do it.
This isn’t meant to be an attack on Australia, since I only lived in one neighbourhood there. What it really is is an acknowledgment of the period in my life where I lost my faith in humanity and decided that my only option was to eat and live healthy.
The preference for high-fructose corn syrup over cane sugar among the vast majority of American food and beverage manufacturers is largely due to U.S. import quotas and tariffs on sugar. These tariffs significantly increase the domestic U.S. price for sugar, forcing Americans to pay more than twice the world price for sugar, thus making high-fructose corn syrup an attractive substitute in U.S. markets. For instance, soft drink makers like Coca-Cola use sugar in other nations, but use high-fructose corn syrup in their U.S. products.