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HFCS - Making Americans Obese?

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This is fascinating research. A Princeton team found that rats that consumed HFCS showed signs of obesity versus rats that consumed regular sugar. Basically, the story that HFCS is just like sugar is not true. They don't quite understand why or how, but Americans have also gotten more obese as HFCS has found its way into everything.

I went to the grocery this morning for bread and decided to look for break without HFCS. The wheat bread I usually get had it and so did brands of so-called whole wheat. Only the organic breads - the ones costing $3.50 a loaf - did not have HFCS.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
 
Add to this government subsidies for growing and promoting these crap products, which makes it very affordable for fast food purveyors to sell gigantic quantities of such beverages cheap, and still make a tidy profit.
 
^ It's true. A 32oz soda costs roughly 20 cents to produce, including the cost of the cup.
 
HFCS is the spawn of Satan's left nut.

The spawn of his right nut is composed mostly of trans fats.

If you don't want to die an obese diabetic, avoid both like the plague.
 
I know a pediatrician who says corn (in any form) is fit only for the hogs.

I buy a huge "wheel" of bread freshly baked from a local bakery, cut it into quarters and freeze three of them until needed. Bread freezes very well. Based on each quarter being about a regular loaf of bread, the cost isn't too bad and the stuff tastes great.
 
Don't worry. If we put all our money into energy wasting ethanol, we won't have to worry about eating corn ever again!

Corn: the spawn of Satan. *shudders*
 
^Agreed.

The "Corn" isn't the problem in HFCS, its the "Fructose".

Eating large quantities of anything that contains significantly more fructose than glucose - regardless of what its made from - can lead to insulin resistance, which in turn leads to obesity and type II diabetes.
 
I don't think HFCS producers get a gov't subsidy. If you have a link to a source that would be great.

Basically, processed foods are garbage. They are cheap because they are massed produced. Somehow we gotta make food that is good for us cheaply.
 
Travisevian said:
That's absurd. Corn has been a staple for Native Americans for centuries. In its natural form, it's healthy.
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True! Corn is a healthy enough substance in reasonable amounts.

The HFC problem isn't that it's corn. It's an altered corn-product.
 
The reason HFCS got put into food in the first place, is that the US protects US sugar growers and put large tariffs on imported sugar. Our current policy and tariffs date to 1977. Originally, this was also to target Cuba and their main export of the day; sugar. Thus HFCS became much cheaper to use. Travel the world and Coca Cola and other items have sugar in them not HFCS. It's time to stop subsidizing corn growers and dump sugar tariffs.

Not to mention that sugar cane is a far, far, more efficient ethanol producer than corn for our fuels.
 
Its amazing how many different foods have HFCS - bread, ketchup, mayo, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and soda.

So are people saying that in other parts of the world processed food uses sugar and not HFCS? So this is an American thing?
 
Ok, so we're clear on this... "High Fructose Corn Syrup" isn't corn, it isn't Fructose and it isn't healthy in any amount.

IT's a fucked up chemical that tastes sweet but your body can't break it down, causing your insulin to spike HUGE and it can lead to obesity, diabetes and liver failure.

It also blocks the message to your brain that you've had enough to eat so you stay hungry even after you've eaten. It's one of the main reasons that people are so fat in America.
 
loki81 said:
it's mostly a north american thing.

to the best of my knowledge, there aren't enough corn fields in Europe, Africa, or Asia to even consider it.
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The US keeps the price of sugar artificially high to protect domestic production. It also offers generous subsidies for growing corn. Therefore sugar in the US costs approx. double what the world market does. HFCS pound for pound can sweeten more than sugar, therefore in the US and Canada (and recently Mexico ironically due to excess HFCS due to falling demand in the US) it is cheaper to use HFCS than sugar.
 
Oh, by the way... you can blame Richard Nixon for this, too.

He was worried about a food shortage cutting into his votes so they rushed through the approval on it (and trans fats) and the market was filled with cheaper foods that, unlike things with milk and sugar, didn't go bad if left for long times on shelves.

Very soon after, waist lines began to rise in the USA. My caloric intake is actually higher than it was before but now that I stopped having it... I've lost a lot of weight.
 
Of course, everything is making Americans too fat, except the Americans themselves. I don't think there is an "evil corn empire" bent on making American's obese. I will agree that corn syrup is likely worse than sugar.
 
loki81 said:
we'd lose weight, but only because everything cost twice as much and spoiled in half the time.
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Not really. I go grocery shopping once a week. I buy ingredients and we make our meals. I eat no processed food at all. Rice doesn't spoil even if there's no MSG, dry beans don't spoil even if there's no salt and trans fats.

Maple Syrup lasts for months even if it's real and not just flavoured High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Butter lasts MORE than long enough. Margarine is just death in a tub.

Have real fruit, not "sliced fruit in light syrup" and have real vegetables and not a can of Chef Boyardee... tell me in a couple months if it's been worth it.
 
Jason and MikeyL - I am TOTALLY with you. And I think people will be surprised that they can eat well, eat stuff that they enjoy, and not spend a bunch of money. One, because when you eat real food it fills you up and you're not hungry half hour later. One of the theories about HFCS is that it stimulates hunger (I stole that from somewhere). So you eat and by eating you make yourself hungry.

Oh, I bike to work.
 
Hot White Trash said:
Jason and MikeyL - I am TOTALLY with you. And I think people will be surprised that they can eat well, eat stuff that they enjoy, and not spend a bunch of money. One, because when you eat real food it fills you up and you're not hungry half hour later. One of the theories about HFCS is that it stimulates hunger (I stole that from somewhere). So you eat and by eating you make yourself hungry.

Oh, I bike to work.
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It doesn't stimulate hunger, it just doesn't stop it. It completely fucks up your insulin response, which is the main way the body knows you've just eaten something. So you could eat a pound of the stuff and still feel as hungry as you were at the start.
 
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