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Studies show no meaningful difference between high fructose corn syrup and sucrose
Corn Refiners Association ^ | May 24, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 05/24/2011 11:11:30 AM PDT by decimon

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To: Errant
High-Fructose Corn Syrup Can Fuel Tumor Growth

Along with Obesity and Diabetes, it's also linked to Liver Scarring.

It must be true because you found a study that says it's true. Good thing studies are always undertaken to find the truth and never to make grant money flow. Otherwise, we might try and deny anthropogenic global warming.

41 posted on 05/24/2011 11:56:58 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Agreed.


42 posted on 05/24/2011 11:59:45 AM PDT by Desdemona ( If trusting the men in the clergy was a requirement for Faith, there would be no one in the pews.)
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To: PieterCasparzen
The liver and kidneys can’t process processed foods as chemicals are in unnatural ratios

Good grief, if what you say were true we'd be dropping over dead every time we ingested a pharmaceutical. Your liver actually learns to metabolized sophisticated compounds (like drugs) that it has never seen before. Do you think complex pharmaceutical compounds are created in natural ratios? Your post is unmitigated nonsense.

43 posted on 05/24/2011 12:01:35 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Neoliberalnot
Problem is we have a lot of disgustingly fat people in this country that are looking for someone to blame for their gluttony and all the associated problems.

Bingo.

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44 posted on 05/24/2011 12:04:01 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mount Athos
"...a lot of people take them in excess."

You can't get away from HFCS. They put it in everything! I don't worry about it because it's not an ingredient in any organic food that I know of or buy.

45 posted on 05/24/2011 12:08:48 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett (You will try to nudge commies toward the truth, while they try to nudge you toward the cattle cars.)
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To: Errant
Also, the natural occurring fructose found in fruits and other plants may be less harmful than the processed form.

LOL!

Ok, so fructose is fructose except when it isn't. Got it. What you're also saying then is that honey (where fructose is a free sugar) is dangerous even though people have been consuming it for centuries. Who knew?

46 posted on 05/24/2011 12:08:54 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings

Exactly.


47 posted on 05/24/2011 12:09:08 PM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: Mr. Lucky

Do the research and judge for yourself.


48 posted on 05/24/2011 12:09:35 PM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: Mase

We all make judgement calls.

I will avoid HFCS when possible. Ya’ll can suit yourself.

Good luck, fattys!


49 posted on 05/24/2011 12:10:37 PM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: Mase

All things in moderation. Stop eating like a pig and problem goes away. One can’t consume more calories than one expends. It isn’t complicated but that ugly aspect of self-discipline rears its ugly head and when ignored demands its retribution.


50 posted on 05/24/2011 12:11:42 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
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To: Marylander

Fructose is related to glucose (both are essential simple sugars) and fructose is FRUIT sugar the same as you find in fruits and natural fruit juices. I never found anything in my biochemistry courses that indicated that fructose goes directly to fat as someone else here indicated. In the mid 70s it was charcoal broiled meat causes cancer, salt causes HBP, nitrites in bacon, butter, eggs all cause high cholesterol, stress causing ulcers and a host of other things that were BS then and have been proven to be BS today.

As Marylander said:

HFCS is a combination of fructose and glucose,
whereas,
sugar is a combination of fructose and glucose.

Get over the overhyped BS.


51 posted on 05/24/2011 12:13:05 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: decimon

Except the taste.

Which, in the event I drink a coke (whatever flavor, dr. pepper, pepsi, coke, RC, etc), then I want it to taste good.

HFCS doesn’t.


52 posted on 05/24/2011 12:14:04 PM PDT by Ro_Thunder (I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

>>>But...but...how can this beee!!?? High fructose corn syrup is eeevil. The TeeVee tells me so.

It ani’t just your teevee... there’s threads right here in Freeprville sayin’ the same thing.


53 posted on 05/24/2011 12:15:16 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: decimon
First, sucrose is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. Second, the HFCS used in most food is either HFCS 55 (55% fructose, 45% glucose) or HFCS 42 (42% fructose, 58% glucose). That tiny 5% fructose in the HFCS 55 foods as part of the total sugar intake isn't going to make any difference. And if the foods one eats using HFCS is split evenly between the 55 and 42, then one is actually eating less fructose than if he uses straight sucrose.
54 posted on 05/24/2011 12:18:25 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Mase

I always enjoy your comments on these threads. Thank you for adding facts and reason to the discussion.


55 posted on 05/24/2011 12:22:57 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Peter from Rutland
We all make judgement calls.

Since your judgment seems to be in question, please note that the mercury found in the study of HFCS was measured in parts per trillion. You get a lot more benzene from the water you drink, measured in parts per billion, than any alleged mercury in products containing HFCS.

Being of sound judgment, which do you think you should be more concerned about?

56 posted on 05/24/2011 12:24:30 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: ExTxMarine

I don’t know, but when I went through Marine Boot Camp in early 1970 as a skinny kid I ate everything they put in front of me including fruit, fruit juices, sugar on buttered bread (pogey bait not allowed) and every fatty item them put in front of me. I only gained 15 pounds but I was fit and muscled when I came out, maintaining an ideal weight limits throughout a military career (not all as a Marine). Yes, exercise and reasonable eating habits will keep you healthy, if you have no other genetic or environmental causes such as smoking or exposure to high levels of various bad substances. I ate like a sumo wrestler most of my adult life while still maintaining good health and proper weight. When I hit my 50s my metabolism changed and I developed a belly roll despite regular exercise. When that happened I drastically trimmed my food intake, fat intake and cut out most sugars but it did nothing to trim my belly roll. My doctor simply says to keep at it and maintain my metabolic indicators (blood sugar, cholesterol etc); the belly roll may never go away.


57 posted on 05/24/2011 12:26:17 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Thanks. It's a target rich environment. :^)
58 posted on 05/24/2011 12:28:12 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Peter from Rutland

If you think HFCS is evil - you need to look into DHMO. That stuff is more evil than HFCS. http://dhmo.org/


59 posted on 05/24/2011 12:30:24 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: Renfield; All
High fructose corn syrup isn’t metabolized by the body in the way that sucrose is; hfcs goes immediately to fat.

I'm a Ph.D. in Human Nutrition/Nutritional Biology and what you've said above is nonsense for the following reasons:
1. Sucrose is composed of fructose and glucose in a 50/50 ratio.
2. HFCS is composed of fructose and glucose in about the same ratio as sucrose (either 55/45 or 42/58).
3. The fructose and glucose in HFCS and sucrose are chemically identical.
4. The fructose and glucose in HFCS and sucrose are absorbed by the body from the gut in exactly the same way.
5. Glucose is metabolized by the same metabolic pathway in the body regardless of whether it comes from corn syrup, cane sugar, clover, sugar beet, honey, or a glucose IV drip.
6. The same is true for fructose.
7. There is very little de novo lipogenesis in humans.
8. The increase in fat deposits in the context of a hypercaloric diet is due to substrate oxidation being switched away from fats, for which there is relatively unlimited storage, to glucose, for which there is relatively limited storage. Most of the fat on one's hips was most recently fat that crossed one's lips.

60 posted on 05/24/2011 12:38:29 PM PDT by aruanan
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