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Oh, I think popcorn and corn

Aunt Sam — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:02:19 +0000

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Oh, I think popcorn and corn on cob will still enjoy market support.

Every day some come up with another way to pervert every food category and make it unhealthy, if not worse. Once again, it's about the $$$$$!

One encouraging bit of news

erica — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:42:44 +0000

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One encouraging bit of news is a recent study showing that American obesity seems to have leveled off. So maybe all the messages are finally taking effect.

I avoid HFCS as well. Seems corn just can't get a break these days!

I have seen claims that HFCS

Donal — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:28:24 +0000

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I have seen claims that HFCS fails to suppresses the hunger ghrelins, or does suppress the leptins that tell us when we're full, but Lustig thinks that cane sugar does that as well.

Whenever I see those

Aunt Sam — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:50:47 +0000

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Whenever I see those 'commercials' about the no difference, I get irritated that no one has challenged the veracity of these claims.

I've also read that HFCS contributes to our body's sensory ability to telegraph when we have eaten enough and causes over eating. And that HFCS has contributed to the rise of diabetes. Have you run across any of the same data?

Like TMac, I too do not purchase processed foods or anything that contains HFCS (among other things like MSG, preservatives, etc.) and make everything from 'scratch'. Purchase only all fruit jams, without additives, even sugar - use to make own but this is so much easier and actually less expensive for the small amount used.

FYI - many fast food chains place their fries in sweetened water before cooking (which do not have to be just potatoes - often soy is the main ingredient because french fries doesn't equate to define ingredients per FDA).

Thanks, hope we continue to have posts with factual data about our food chain and health, etc.

Fixed it, thanks.

Donal — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:15:11 +0000

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Fixed it, thanks.

American's in general have

tmccarthy0 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:05:17 +0000

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American's in general have far too much sugar in their diet, whether it is through HFCS or cane sugar or whatever the newest "it's not hfcs" fad might be.

I try to make almost everything from scratch, I only buy Canada dry when someone in the house is sick. No boxed foods, no frozen dinners, no store bought breads and we limit bakery items to things I bake at home.

It's not healthy to eat as much sugar as is in America's processed food diet. I do make all our own jellies and jams as well, which leaves me in control of how much sugar goes into that jam or jelly, but I tend to spend lots of time in the kitchen and that isn't always fun, but it is better for our overall health.

I feel like I run a health food restaurant in my kitchen though, it makes me very tired some days.

Low concentrations of

NCD — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:27:34 +0000

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Low concentrations of colorless, odorless CO (not 'CO2') can kill you by binding to the O2 site in hemoglobin.

I kind of like their strategy

Verified Atheist — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:31:33 +0000

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I kind of like their strategy of asking lay people what they know about HFCS and then deducing that since the lay people can't tell you what's bad about HFCS, then there's nothing bad about it. That could just as easily work with tobacco, asbestos, DDT, and even the H-bomb.

Person A: Hey, how what do you know about the H-bomb?

Person B: I know that I'm scared of it, that it's bad.

Person A: Really? Why?

Person B: I don't know how it works.

Person A: Then accept me telling you that it doesn't. There's absolutely nothing dangerous about an H-bomb.

Person B: Thanks, Person A! I feel so much smarter now!