High Fructose Corn Syrup

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I love the fact that their ad campaign is "It's just as healthy as sugar!"

I'm not convinced that it's significantly worse than sugar though.

[Marshal Murat]

I'm not convinced that it's significantly worse than sugar though.

It's not worse than sugar, it's simply that High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and Corn is in everything Americans eat.

HFCS is in most drinks (diet drinks excluded), candy, and most processed food (Pop-tarts namely). Like the ad said, it's good in moderation, but how can you moderate HFCS intake when most of the food one can buy has HFCS?
Corn is even worse, since the meat one eats is fed with corn or corn meal. Most breads, unless they are whole grain, have corn as filled. The entire nation is fed off corn grown in the US Midwest. What they don't tell you is that the corn grown, almost entirely, is inedible. You can't eat it or process it naturally. They feed that corn to cows, pigs, chickens, etc. or mix it into HFCS. All this corn is grown because farmers get subsidies from the US government to grow corn instead of wheat, barley, oats, or any other grains, or to raise other crops. The farmers then get subsidized fertilizers to help grow the corn. If they don't grow corn, it isn't profitable.

PBS:KING CORN

Fast Food Facts

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is corn syrup that has been modified to increase the level of fructose. It has become a popular topic in the discussion of obesity in America. The reason for this is that HFCS comsumption has increased dramatically since the 1970s when it was developed and so has obesity. It has not been proven that there is a link, but the average American consumed 39 pounds of HFCS in 1980 and 62.6 pounds in 2001.

Mayo Clinic

While research continues, moderation remains important. Many beverages and other processed foods made with high-fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners are high in calories and low in nutritional value. Regularly including these products in your diet has the potential to promote obesity — which, in turn, promotes conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary artery disease.

Women's Fitness Diet Tips

Accidental Hedonist List

Baking and Cooking ingredients

Kellogg's® Corn Flake Crumbs
Nabisco Oreo Cookie Crumbs
Shake n Bake - Tangy Honey Glaze
Shake n Bake - Honey Mustard Glaze
Stove Top Stuffing - Chicken
Stove Top Stuffing - Cornbread
Stove Top Stuffing - Homestyle Herb
Stove Top Stuffing - Pork
Stove Top Stuffing - Turkey

[Strike For The South]

Good point on the meats. I try to buy the grass fed stuff but even here where most of the cows are raised it still costs a pretty penny.

[seireikhaan]

Good point on the meats. I try to buy the grass fed stuff but even here where most of the cows are raised it still costs a pretty penny.

Nothin' wrong with the corn in feed. Just don't eat it.

[Strike For The South]

Nothin' wrong with the corn in feed. Just don't eat it.

It is when messes with the moo-moo cows my friend.

[naut]

I'm glad I live in Australia, here we produce too much cane sugar! And it's in everything!

(Red meat is pretty reasonably priced here too!)

[Major Robert Dump]

This is an article from George Will from a few weeks back. Very insightful:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...030602070.html

[Lemur]

Good point on the meats. I try to buy the grass fed stuff but even here where most of the cows are raised it still costs a pretty penny.

Mrs. Lemur sources our meat from local farmers, but you're right, it costs more to eat the grass-fed stuff. We treat red meat like a special occasion now, eating it maybe once a week. The rest of the time it's chicken (clean chicken is a lot less expensive than clean beef) or pork, or no meat. I'm not convinced this is a bad way to eat. I doubt our ancestors had a half-pound of red meat every day.