Corn Syrup's New Disguise

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Tijoeabq1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:42:42 GMT

I have been reading Dr. Mercola's comments on articles for some time now. He is obviousley an expert on applying "Perceptual Set" theory on any topic he comments on. The problem in not with corn syrup, or fructose, or with the manufacturers of the products, but with how much we consume in our diets. If you read through all the filler comments he makes, and filter out the crap, he could have just written;

Avaoid eating lots of processed foods. Stick to eating foods with natual polysaccharides and avoid food with lots of monosaccharides or disaccharides.

We have to stop eating so much sugar in our diets, and it is each of our lazy faults because we don't take the time to prepare our own food and chose to each profit laden processed food products!!!

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energymaster — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:18:35 GMT

I don't see anything about the best tasting, non-artificial, non-glycemic sweetener out there - xylitol!

It is so much better tasting than stevia it's not funny, and with no aftertaste. Google it and you'll find it by the 3 and 5 pounds quite reasonably. Emerald Forest is one source. It also subs in baking quite well.

I love it!

Andy

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CrowSnake — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:42:28 GMT

My list of foods keep getting smaller and smaller. I cut out sugar years ago.. I am learning to go gluten free because it makes my joints swell up and gives me those age aches and pains everyone gripes about, those age pains go away if I keep off Gluten. Hummm. They hide gluten in everything... Thank goodness I am a protien type. But processed meats have HFCS in them. Sure it is not much, one carb sometimes, but it is there, WHY?

Funny even with the small list of food I have left I still have weight issues. No sugar, No wheat, but still I fight my weight. Oh I am at a pretty nice spot now, but it is from constant fighting that I am not fat at the present. I must weigh all the time or just a little slip can pack on 5 lbs in just a couple of days, then it takes a week or more of fighting to get it back off, And I had weight loss surgery in 03. It is not suppose to be so hard after that. I lost 125 and gained 30 back over the years.. and this year I have taken 33 back off, but it was WORK.. My body wants to weigh over 200, and I want to weigh between 165 and 145.. I made it to 173 but now I am fighting again at 185 to get back to 175 in a couple of weeks. I am tall so I look pretty good at 165 even as a female. I dream of 145, but I have never seen that. I am following the metabolic type diet and If I eat enough fat I am not as hungrey. I have Weigh protien and sometimes it helps too.

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skip smyth — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:54:30 GMT

Drank cokes in the 50's and 60's like there was no tomorrow. Weaned to a lesser degree in following four decades. Achieved 62 yrs. How? Lots of lawyers would love to sue Coke, but they want me dead. Wow! Great precedence. No fan of Coke, or Pep, however, there is no solid evidence. I rest my case.

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auntie em — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:36:35 GMT

Hey, everyone, it's dead easy to MAKE YOUR OWN HFCS-free spaghetti sauce! And you can all do it w-organic tomatoes you grow yourselves--tomatoes grow like weeds, even in pots. Here's the recipe i use: use a giant Nesco roaster, put 2-3 onions, 1 sweet potato, celery, garlic cloves to taste, 2-3 green peppers, and hot peppers to taste in the bottom. Pile on tomatoes until the mound reaches the top of the domed cover. Let it cook at 250 all day. In the evening, fish out all the tomatoes and other solid parts, whizz in a food processor, and blend each processor "load" in a giant bowl. Can for 45 min, boiling water bath. Can the juice that is left, and use for soup stock, or just to drink as homemade V-8. Delicious!

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yankeelady49 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:45:24 GMT

Since food companies started replacing sugar with HFCS about 40 yrs ago the obesity epidemic has mushroomed. The statistics show that fact. They add HFCS to cattle in feed lots to fatten them up quickly for slaughter. You figure it out....

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tchef — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:18:26 GMT

In 1998 I woke up one morning with HIVES! They continued on for the next 9 years, going away for a year or two and then returning. All my dematologist did was to keep medicating me so conseqently as was on 3 antihistimines a day. Feeling like a zombie and still having chronic hives I seeked several different medical avenues. One day a friend recommended an Enviromental Allergist. It was very difficult to do the testing b/c I couldn't not be off my medication for 1 day. He did a food elimenation diet and then the skin testing. I was allergic to CORN and eggs. He said due to corn being in almost everything I had become intolerant to corn. I find it very difficult to find products without some dextrose, malodextrose, or anything with no "ose" in it. I found an egg substitue at Whole Foods for baking called ENERG, found in the Asian section. I use applesauce or a very ripe banana to substitute for eggs in baking. I make all my sauces myself to avoid any HFCS. I am writing a cookbook with my recipes b/c it is so hard to find great tasting alternatives - but what you make yourself is better tasting anyway. I was furious when I saw the new HFCS ads. I thought to myself BOLOGNA!

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OR-Gma — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:31:04 GMT

For BlueCat_203 and all others who are interested;

Trader Joe's sells tomato products without HFCS and I use their BBQ sauce after trying other brands and finding them lacking in lively flavor. I have not tried their ketchup since I don't personally use it but it's worth a try. Whole Foods in a good source of products but I felt they didn't meet my standards for taste or price. Classico is my brand of pasta/spaghetti sauce. It comes in many flavors and is available at major grocery chains like Safeway. You can't go wrong reading labels and giving products a try no matter where you find them; just keep trying until you find something you like.

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Bilby — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:02:08 GMT

There are plenty of 100% pure fruit juices on the market .Many people think that because fresh fruit is healthy therefore pure fruit juice mush be healthy.What they don't realise is the amount of fructose they are digesting IE essentially the same problems as with HFCS. There is nothing wrong with eating a bit of fresh or even a bit of tinned fruit.Experiment for yourself how many oranges is takes to produce even one cup of orange juice.

BTW in the supermarket the other day I had a look at a bottle of Karo light corn syrup. It was made with pre vanilla and guaranteed to be of the highest quality!

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impramp252v — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:35:46 GMT

One thing about xylitol, though, it can have a laxative effect. I must be sensitive to it because I tried Xlear sinus spray which has xylitol as its main ingredient and I had diarrhea shortly thereafter. Ugh!

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Katie5757 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:22:16 GMT

Sugar is poison.. just get used to the idea.. the less sweet things you eat, the more sickly they become, when you are exposed to them..

Refined cane sugar, refined fructose from any source.. are poison... also addictive.

Eat whole foods.. care what you put in to your body.. drinking sodas is ridiculous, eat fruit, dont drink fruit juice .. think whole.. your body will thank you for it.. believe me.

Isnt stevia a herb you can grow?? that was my understanding.. it is not given approval, because it is a natural product. A natural product isnt processed.. Eat good food.. you wont need supplements.. get over the habit of taking "pills" to correct the defiencies in your crappy diet..

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gardenweeder — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:54:51 GMT

Mitzy, I buy packets of Stevia in the healthfood section of my local grocery store (Shaws and MarketBasket). I also get Blue Agave Syrup at Shaws. I haven't tried that as a substitute for corn syrup in pecan pie, but the Blue Agave brand is Wholesome Sweeteners - www.OrganicSyrups.biz This site has recipes for substituting agave for other sweeteners. The Stevia brand is SweetLife - www.SweetLife.com

As for HFCS and tomatoes. DO NOT buy any tomato based product in cans. The interior of cans leaches some chemical (I forget which one) that is harmful, so get whatever in glass whenever you can.

Tomatoes or anything tomato based, try to get organic whenever possible. It takes so many tomatoes 20+ I think it is) to get one quart of sauce, ketchup, or whatever, that whatever pesticides are used to

grow one tomato is concentrated 20+ times in your one quart of sauce. When I look for spaghetti sauce in a jar at the grocery store and can't find an organic brand, and I'm in a hurry, I buy a jar of salsa and mix it with organic tomato paste to make a sauce.

As for a "soda-like" experience, I buy a fruit juice with no HFCS or any other added sweetener and add a little fizz with soda water or selza water.

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jessi405405 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:09:50 GMT

I feel so much like moving to a rural area and growing my own fruits and vegatables, with chickens and a milk cow or two. Manufacture my own cheese and milk products with raw milk and canning and storing goods for the off seasons. Then when Obama has totaly demolished the economy and working cost more to Americans than not working I will have to defend my "farm" from the constant barrage of looters and theives. Provided I was allowed still the right to bear arms to protect what is mine. I will share with others around me and give the shirt off my back if asked, but I do not take kindly to persons who have a TAKE mentality.

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jessi405405 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:59:30 GMT

Stevia is available in most Wal-Marts that I have been to. It's located in the phamacy next to Diabetic products, like Glucerna Bars and Cereals. Look there, it's in a powder form.

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Dan65 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:23:16 GMT

To clarify, Stevia is NOT ILLEGAL to purchase in the U.S. as a "dietary supplement". It just can't be called or used as a "food additive", due to FDA regulations. See the wiki article for the full history of Stevia.

Stevia can be purchased in the U.S. at health food or organic food stores in powered or liquid form, and online!