High Fructose Corn Syrup is NOT the only devil
Very informative post, HFCS is only the part of the story - all varities of sugar are bad duh!! (Thanks):
"For people who are worried about their health or their children’s health — and who isn’t, these days — the data suggest that the best choice is to reduce intake of all sweeteners containing fructose. That includes not only the evil HFCS, but also natural cane sugar, molasses (which is just impure cane sugar), brown sugar (ditto) and honey. Even “unsweetened” (no added sugar) fruit juices need to be considered when limiting your family’s fructose intake.
Finally, the best nutritional advice is to eat everything in moderation — and that includes sweets. While a diet high in fructose may increase your risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease — maybe — a fructose-free diet is not guaranteed toprevent those diseases. Eat a variety of foods, including a small amount of sweets, get enough exercise, watch your (and your children’s) weight and see your doctor for regular health check-ups.
And stop worrying that HFCS is poisoning you and your children."
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Hi,
My google alert for HFCS picked up your post.Yes it's important to realize that anything you eat and drink if ingested in excess will have health hazards. But, have you thought about just how much fructose is in an American Coke? HFSC-55, the sweetener for all national brands of soda is 55%fructose:45% glucose.
This may appear to be close to the ratio found in sucrose (50:50),
until you sit down and do the math.
55%:45% - 55/45 = 1.22. This means that in every Coke there is, compared to glucose, 22% more fructose. You don't have to delve deeply into the research to know that it is the excess fructose we
have been ingesting that has led us to be obese and diabetic.
Sure, sugar is no saint. But the
ratio is precisely 1:1. It can be no other. HFCS is only a mixture of
fructose and glucose and the ratio
was designed by the CRA. When they were trying to make a sweetener they overlooked the fact that if you increase the fructose, the glucose must decrease ( you can only have a total of 100%). They never thought about what it might do to our bodies. And then again, this is pure conjecture, the corn chemists might have tested their lab rodents, and found out that HFCS-55 is slightly addictive. What better way to boost profits. Bottle a drink that is guaranteed not to quench your thirst. And so we went from a 6.5 oz drink to 64 oz big gulps.
I firmly believe that it is this
fructose>>glucose imbalance that
has contributed to our health woes.
Ditch HFCS, especially HFCS-55.
Take care,
Cynthia Papierniak, M.S.
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