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[superbadgirl]

I do not appreciate Mr. Jackhammer aka the older of the Upstairs Kids hopping up and down and up and down directly above my bedroom at 0755 on a Sunday. It's not cool.

I resent being awake and showered already.

But I suppose this means I've now got tons of time to get things done around here.


Also, what's with the big pushback regarding high fructose corn syrup lately?

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[ozreison.livejournal.com]

Pushback?

[superbadgirl]

Ads on TV - those are fairly obvious, sponsored by the Corn Growers Association. Suddenly HFCS is nothing to worry about and we're all a bunch of sillyheads.

And blog entries like this, which also says it's much ado about nothing.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

Besides the fact high fructose corn syrup is really bad for you?

[ozreison.livejournal.com]

Didn't you read her answer? That's a sillyhead answer! Stop it! ;)

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

LOL

Have you noticed the only products sold in Canada that contain high fructose corn syrup are those that are produced for both Canadian and American markets? If it's made up here, it won't have it.

[superbadgirl]

I think we're the only country in the world hooked on HFCS, and I do mean hooked. We're all a bunch of junkies and we don't even know it.

It's incredibly difficult to find affordable product without that substance in it. FCOL, a loaf of bread is likely to contain the stuff.

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

I used to have a list of things that didn't have HFCS in them, as I won't buy food with it, and others were interested in what products didn't have it, but I purged it when I got rid of a ton of things trying to get my HD not to crash. Re: bread, I know Martin's Potato Bread in the regular and wheat forms don't. :)

Big Miss was saying how commercials say HFCS is fine, it's just like regular sugar, and we had to remind her that it's how your body processes it that makes HFCS bad. And that not everything you see/hear on TV is true.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

How does it process it differently from any other fructose? (Seriously, the only thing I'd ever heard about being careful with HFCS is that it's one of the 'hidden sugars' that get dumped into foods so people are eating sugar they aren't aware of.)

[superbadgirl]

This explains it a bit.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing anything there other than what I'd already said: hfcs is being hidden in foods and people don't know it's there so they're eating more sugar than they realize.

That fructose doesn't cause an insulin reaction is a bonus, not a minus. It has nothing to do with satiation and everything to do with avoiding the crash we get from sucrose (which is due to the insulin reaction sucking all the sugars out of the bloodstream and triggering the brain to scream "WE NEED CARBS AND WE NEED THEM NOW OR WE'RE GOING TO BE EATEN BY A TIGER WHILE WE'RE PASSED OUT!". ;-)

There are people with fructose malabsorbtion disorder, as well as some other gastro-intestinal disorders that make fructose difficult to handle, but they'd have as much trouble eating fruit as they would with foods containing HFCS.

HFCS just isn't a problem in and of itself. The problem is in taking in too many sugars of *any* type and the fact that HFCS is a cheap way for manufacturers to sweeten foods to make them more desirable to human taste buds.

[superbadgirl]

*shrugs*

Whatever, I was just curious to see it being pushed as a-okay now.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that HFCS was linked to Type 2 diabetes, which that article mentions as well. That's why I stopped consuming it. Diabetes runs in my family, so I tend to avoid things that might increase my chances.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

*Sugar* is linked to Type 2 diabetes. Doesn't matter what kind, though sucrose edges out in front of fructose by a hair. Basically, anything ending in 'ose' is to be viewed, if not with alarm, then at least with caution.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

It's a frustrating no-win scenario.

[superbadgirl]

I'd win if I could only emigrate to Canada.

[nialla]

The pushback is a ploy by the corn producers, like you see ones for milk, eggs, beef and just about anything else that has ever been deemed "bad" at one point.

At the moment, corn is theoretically in a shortage, because of the testing of alternate fuels. However, it's generally not the farmer getting the high prices, it's the stock market speculators trying to make money and companies trying to divert corn from food production into fuel production.

My big concern about corn is not only the "hidden sugar" aspect, but also that many people's health problems may actually be due to corn allergies.

Just like many people can be stung by a bee more than once until the time they do have a reaction, people are unknowingly putting corn into their body. It's possible they're overwhelming their system with it until the body rebels, but because corn syrup is so often hidden, it's difficult to make the connection.

[superbadgirl]

I thought eggs were always incredibly edible! ;)

Just like many people can be stung by a bee more than once until the time they do have a reaction, people are unknowingly putting corn into their body. It's possible they're overwhelming their system with it until the body rebels, but because corn syrup is so often hidden, it's difficult to make the connection.

I could buy this, actually.

[nialla]

I've been wondering about the health/allergy connection since we have so many kids practically growing up drinking corn syrup laden drinks and more kids are having allergy issues too.

There was one drink I tried a couple of years ago that was a diet drink, so no corn syrup, but it was one of those "good for you" drinks with "extra" natural ingredients. It took me a while to figure it out, but every time I drank one, I would get a bad headache. I don't know what it was that triggered me, but I avoid those types of drinks to this day.