[EQAndyBuzz]

None of this food kills you. That is a myth. What kills you is eating food and laying on your barca lounger watching "Law and Order" reruns.

200 channels on TV and the only good show is an animated one about 4th graders tackling todays issues. And the start of the show is fat.

Cartman Rulez

[jonrick46]

High fructose corn syrup is worse than cane sugar and is better used for alcohol in our gas tanks. What is starting to be learned is that this form of fructose is metabolized differently: it goes directly to the liver, releasing enzymes that high-fructose corn syrup instructs the body to then store fat! This may elevate triglyceride (fat in blood) levels and bad cholesterol levels. Scientists are finding that elevated levels of trigylcerides are linked to an increased risk of heart disease. In the same way it leads to insulin resistance and eventually to type 2 diabetes. That bottle of Coca Cola one would drink in the pre-1970s, made with sugar cane, would not trigger the weight gain in the same way as high fructose corn syrup.

What I have become aware of is the problem of some kind of chemical action that triggers the inflammation response in the cell walls of the circulatory system and in the brain. There has been reports that high sucrose corn syrup is linked to such responses and this would be something that needs to be examined further. Any scientists out there looking for a good research project?

We may be letting our prejudices and junk science lead us away from the real culprit in weight gain and other health effects coming from the foods we eat. Answer this question: why was heart disease almost non existent 100 years ago? People might have worked a little harder but there were still enough people living the easy life to show more heart disease than was the case.