Beware of New Media Brainwashing About High Fructose Corn Syrup

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DivineLight58 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:05:35 GMT

I just found out that high fructose corn syrup has mercury in it since 1970.It's a wonder all our kids aren't retarded.

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Leighsa — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:06:55 GMT

check out this commercial

www.cheeseslave.com/.../videos-high-fructose-corn-syrup-commercial-spoofs

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Bartman — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:42:43 GMT

The children of the corn are putting a lot of TV advertising out now. They're desparate to keep HFCS alive. The web page they're touting now is sweetsurprise then dot then com. Again, it's full of misinformation.

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RobM007 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:47:38 GMT

My wife and I just saw a tv add by the corn refiners association (CRA), it pretty much had two women one questioning the safety and nutritional value of HFCS and the other mocking her and saying that it is a perfectly safe and natural sweetner...unlike some of those artificial ones. It gave a website www.sweetsuprise.com where the CRA exhalted the goodness and nutrition of their Frankensuger. They even gave a "knowledge quiz" to test your understanding of their pruducts. Funny thing is at the end of the quiz if you hadn't aswered the way they wanted you to they mocked you by saying "well, it looks like you need to work on your sweet smarts... . This whole website and their adds just further give "proof in the pudding" to the extent that people and corporations will LIE to keep the money flowing. Remember, their profits are more important than your health. Like other people have written in response to this article, read lables and show your concerns by refusing to buy their junk...they'll get the point when the money goes away.

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aaisha21 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:40:21 GMT

I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw these commercials on TV. I said, "Oh my God are they serious." I couldn't believe that they would go this far to get you to buy thier products. I read the labels on everything I eat and put on my body & I have educated my 3 children on what they should stay away from too. Everyone I know was calling me to ask me if I saw the commercials, even my kids said Mommy come see this on TV. I thought, let me check this website I knew Dr. Mercola would have something to say about it.

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squeegee — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:11:22 GMT

If the general population knew the truth, would they change their eating habits? The problem is something other than advertising...

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Sha-Sha — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:19:33 GMT

Who pays Snopes.com? If you can answer that, then we can understand why they debunk some "myths" even if they're true... toxins leached in plastic bottles include Dioxin... Google the plastic-dioxin connection and you'll see the carcinogenic connection there, too...

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curious7 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:37:27 GMT

The cost to the health of Americans is too high to compute, but you can guess our mindful USDA, and the FDA, are on the job protecting us from what goes bump in the night. Too bad no wants to see that prevention is much better, and easier than any cure.

First they create then fake a cure for high cholesterol, then there is this crutch, and that crutch for diabetes, heart disease, and the like. At the same instant our portective Government is looking the other way.

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Jonathan B — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:07:05 GMT

High fructose corn syrup is not just a problem because of its tendency to leave people massively fat, due to the inability of the human body to process this material, so it both turns to fat, but also gets stored in fat.

The other problems with this product is that the leptin cycle, which helps humans know when they have eaten enough food, gets disabled, so the body never knows that it is full, so compulsive eating can be triggered when HFCS is used in even diet sodas.

A third problem is that corn itself is not a proper food for humans, just as it is not for pigs or cattle, and marbling of muscle with fat occurs in humans, just as it does in pigs and cattle.

Finally, HFCS is used in a vast variety of processed foods, many of which are not even sweet, due to the fact that corn syrup acts as a preservative, so it is used in frozen meat entrees, frozen vegetables, bread, and other processed foods. Sugar used to be used to maintain freshness in the past, but HFCS is somewhat less expensive.

This use of a product that cannot be processed by the body in so many products means that people with corn allergies are being exposed to an allergen, and people with use of HFCS in sodas tend to get even higher doses of this sweetener.

I have lived long enough to remember a world in which corn syrup was not commonly used in foods, but sugar was commonly used both as a sweetener, and as a preservative, and I do not remember such a huge number of obese and morbidly obese people. I am a hefty guy, and slightly over 300 pounds, but I routinely meet people who dwarf me in size, and have bodies I could not get my arms halfway around.

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Maat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:45:25 GMT

I find maple syrup to be better for me. Grade C maple syrup feeds my body and has stabilized my minerals that I was deficient in: potassium, calcium especially. I am a vegan, so I don't use honey. I find te tatse of agave not as good as maple syrup. I have also used stevia in the past. Itr elaves an afetertaste and is far to sweet for tea.

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Jodee — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:36:05 GMT

To tax or not to tax....the debate rages on. In general, I would agree that it is almost never a good idea. That being said, there remains a simple principle: Tax products and activities you wish to discourage. Don't tax those you wish to encourage. It seems to work most of the time, so maybe high taxes (ie. penalties) for things like HFCS would not be a bad idea.

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MisterJack — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:19:17 GMT

Just FYI, my local Whole Foods (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) has an entire end cap devoted to Stevia in many forms (drops, powder, etc.). Apparently it is no longer deemed unsafe and is certainly not illegal.

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Debrah — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:22:43 GMT

We order jams, beets and pickles from www.thedutchkettle.com --they are Mennonites in Indiana who make great products without MSG or HFCS. Of course they do use sugar so these are special treats but it is so nice to have some raspberry jam or elderberry jam, mmm! Aunt Millies makes an organic bread without HFCS for those of you who can eat bread--I buy it for my husband, I don't eat it myself. The grocery chain, Meijers which is in the midwest now carries quite a few organic processed items which is nice for occasional use or for people who cannot give up their usual diet--for example they have catsup without HFCS.I have been preaching the no HFCS, artificial sweeteners, MSG to everyone for a long time but it is hard to get people to listen, even when they ask how I stay so slim and healthy at 51 yrs old and I tell them! It does help that I can direct them to the above places for at least healthier versions of the processed foods they like. I want to say though that I have a concern for how so many of you are touting the benefits of stevia--maybe it is okay as a natural plant but the processsed stevia that is in so many natural products now make me feel very strange--almost like when I have MSG or other excitotoxins . I prefer to stick with the sweeteners that our ancestors have used for thousands of years--raw honey. I get it from local beekeepers who do not use junk for their bees and have found that I do not have any problem with blood sugar --as long as it is raw.

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rhondaram — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:34:09 GMT

There is another variation of corn syrup to be concerned about called crystalline fructose. It is in some of the so called healthy drinks (including my favorite sports drink mix Cytomax) Here is the link:

www.thefitshack.com/.../what-is-crystalline-fructose

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Jen47 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:42:02 GMT

Can anyone comment on Snopes saying plastic bottles don't leach toxins?