Corn refiners are pouring it on....

[Wifezilla]

Thicker than corn syrup!

http://www.nxtbook.com/sosland/fbn/2011_02_15/#/18

I have a couple of food industry mags I signed up for and it has been all corn syrup all the time lately.

"We don't understand why people hate it. It's just as healthy as sugar!"

SPARE ME!!!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Thicker than corn syrup!

http://www.nxtbook.com/sosland/fbn/2011_02_15/#/18

I have a couple of food industry mags I signed up for and it has been all corn syrup all the time lately.

"We don't understand why people hate it. It's just as healthy as sugar!"

SPARE ME!!!

I paged over a couple, and saw that Ad for "defatted wheat germ".

 

[FarmerDenise]

That's how I feel about those. And my father believes their commercials ...

 

[Ohioann]

Think about the name of one of the biggies...ConAgra. What do the first three letters spell???

 

[CrimsonRose]

That's how I feel about those. And my father believes their commercials ...

My mom also... I was telling her to cut out the cornsyrup... and she said she just seen it on tv that it was as safe as sugar!!!

(sarcasm) well if it says so on tv then it must be true!!! by all means then keep eating it!!!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

That's how I feel about those. And my father believes their commercials ...

My mom also... I was telling her to cut out the cornsyrup... and she said she just seen it on tv that it was as safe as sugar!!!

(sarcasm) well if it says so on tv then it must be true!!! by all means then keep eating it!!!

And we all know that sugar is a safe and healthy choice

 

[CrimsonRose]

 

[Wifezilla]

I love you guys

 

[Wifezilla]

"Consumers trying to avoid genetically modified foods should avoid HFCS. It is almost certainly made from genetically modified corn and then it is processed with genetically modified enzymes. I've seen some estimates claiming that virtually everything--almost 80 percent--of what we eat today has been genetically modified at some point. Since the use of HFCS is so prevalent in processed foods, those figures may be right.
But there's another reason to avoid HFCS. Consumers may think that because it contains fructose--which they associate with fruit, which is a natural food--that it is healthier than sugar. A team of investigators at the USDA, led by Dr. Meira Field, has discovered that this just ain't so.
Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose. When sugar is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems, especially when the rats were deficient in certain nutrients, such as copper. The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems. So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose. The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results. The male rats did not reach adulthood. They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy--that means that their hearts enlarged until they exploded. They also had delayed testicular development. Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.) In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart. The females were not so affected, but they were unable to produce live young.
"The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic."
HFCS contains more fructose than sugar and this fructose is more immediately available because it is not bound up in sucrose. Since the effects of fructose are most severe in the growing organism, we need to think carefully about what kind of sweeteners we give to our children. Fruit juices should be strictly avoided--they are very high in fructose--but so should anything with HFCS."
http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-foods/611-murky-world-of-hfcs.html

"Pure fructose contains no enzymes, vitamins or minerals and robs the body of its micronutrient treasures in order to assimilate itself for physiological use.7 While naturally occurring sugars, as well as sucrose, contain fructose bound to other sugars, high fructose corn syrup contains a good deal of "free" or unbound fructose. Research indicates that this free fructose interferes with the hearts use of key minerals like magnesium, copper and chromium. Among other consequences, HFCS has been implicated in elevated blood cholesterol levels and the creation of blood clots. It has been found to inhibit the action of white blood cells so that they are unable to defend the body against harmful foreign invaders.8"
http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-foods/569-double-danger-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html

"The Princeton researchers had been studying not only side effects of high fructose corn syrup, but how your body reacts when it's ingested. They discovered that rats which had access to high fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to basic table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.
They did two studies and here are a few excerpts from their findings:
The first experiment male rats given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow gained much more weight than male rats that received water sweetened with table sugar, or sucrose, in conjunction with the standard diet. The concentration of sugar in the sucrose solution was the same as is found in some commercial soft drinks, while the high-fructose corn syrup solution was half as concentrated as most sodas.
The second experiment the first long-term study of the effects of high-fructose corn syrup consumption on obesity in lab animals monitored weight gain, body fat and triglyceride levels in rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup over a period of six months. Compared to animals eating only rat chow, rats on a diet rich in high-fructose corn syrup showed characteristic signs of a dangerous condition known in humans as the metabolic syndrome, including abnormal weight gain, significant increases in circulating triglycerides and augmented fat deposition, especially visceral fat around the belly. Male rats in particular ballooned in size: Animals with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained 48 percent more weight than those eating a normal diet. In humans, this would be equivalent to a 200-pound man gaining 96 pounds."
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/...-fructose-corn-syrup-woes-once-for-all-112003

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

What I cannot figure out, is that the general population buys the lie that sugar is healthy.
Boggles my brain!