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Posted on 10/25/2011 8:59:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
That is a riot! Sometimes, it will freeze early here when there are still berries on the pyracantha, barberry and other bushes. A few days later, cedar waxwings, titmice and other birds can be seen in the bushes, eating the fermenting berries, screeching and flying erratically for hours.
You speak the truth :).
More corn going to more ethanol production would help eliminate this massive problem.
Added sugar in any form is bad. Dad told us in the 60s don’t eat anything white—sugar, white flour, and salt.
It’s poison. So is sugar. Treat it as such and you’ll see the fat melt off your body in a few months.””
Good ideas. Reducing grain consumption will also help eliminate the epidemic levels of obesity. How do we fatten livestock? What do we feed them?
The HFC drinks are icky tasting-even the canned lemonade and such. I don’t drink sodas or other canned or bottled drinks, but I will buy the cane sugar ones for my bro’s kids if they are visiting-Family Dollar out here has the ones from Mexico at a really decent price.
You can also buy cans or bottles of Dublin Dr Pepper (cane sugar sweetened) from Beverages Direct. Good stuff!
Sugar is metabolized immediately as an energy booster. High fructose corn syrup is stored in the body as fat.
Let's follow your logic:
Sugar = sucrose. Sucrose = glucose and fructose.
High fructose corn syrup = glucose and fructose.
This being a fact, how can sucrose be metabolized immediately as a source of energy while hfcs is converted to fat? Afrer all, they're comprised of the same two chemicals in almost identical proportions.
Why wouldn't they both be utilized for immediate energy if the body required it? Why wouldn't they both be stored as glycogen if the body didn't have an immediate need for energy? Why wouldn't they both be stored as fat if the body's glycogen reserves were full?
I suspect that this study is the reason for all the commercials touting ‘corn sweetener’ as being no different than sugar, from the CORN LOBBY of course.
Can you explain how glucose and fructose from hydrolyzed sucrose is chemically different than glucose and fructose from HFCS?
Why would you need to see any studies on citric acid? Citric acid is commonly found in many fruits and vegetables. It serves as a natural flavor enhancer, preservative and acidifier. Why the concern, unless you think lemons, limes and oranges are dangerous?
Agreed. I cannot stomach hfc drinks and avoid like the plague. I make cherry or tropical fruit Kool-Aid with white sugar and drink that if I get a craving for a sweet drink.
Poison? Good grief. Eating fresh fruit is poisonous? Where do people come up with such nonsense? There's an old adage that's as true today as it was was in the 16th century: Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
In your world, water is poisonous. Silly but true.
So does it it take less HFCS to give food the same level of sweetness or does it take the same amount or more?
Because citric acid is added to almost everything. I’m just curious if it has anything to do with the widespread acid reflux problems. It’s added to so many products.
I suspect that there is an evolutionary factor that is involved. Raw sugar is rare in nature, mostly in honey and few other places. Fructose, fruit sugar, is more common. I think that when a person or animal consumes fruit, and therefore fructose, the body senses the difference between that and pure sugar.
The season that fruit is in abundance, summer, is when animals have to store up fat for the long winter months in order to survive.
When we eat fructose enhanced foods, the body says, “Hey! FRUCTOSE! It must be Summer! I must store this away for later!”
But, when we consume sugar, it says, “Hey! SUGAR! I’ll use this for energy immediately! I’ll store some leftovers for later!”
As for metabolization, The process is essentially the same. They may be similar molecules, but the body knows the difference........
high-fructose corn syrup>>>>>>>
Yeah this stuff is no darn good better they make ethanol out of that corn. Don’t consume that crap find an alternative.
Even so, the amount used in food and pharmaceuticals is so small that I can't imagine it would have much impact on acid reflux.
Just google “citric acid GERD” and you’ll find that citric acid triggers acid reflux. This includes the many products that contain it as an additive.
There are all sorts of sugars. I don't know what you mean by "raw" sugar. The chemical composition of honey is almost identical to that of HFCS. Anyone who fears HFCS should also be fearful of honey. Doesn't make much sense now, does it?
I think that when a person or animal consumes fruit, and therefore fructose, the body senses the difference between that and pure sugar.
Again, what do you mean by "pure" sugar. Fructose is a sugar (monosaccharide) just like galactose and glucose. Fructose may be metabolized through a different pathway in the body, but that's no reason to fear it.
When we eat fructose enhanced foods, the body says, “Hey! FRUCTOSE! It must be Summer! I must store this away for later!”
No, your body doesn't metabolize sugars based on a particular season. Your body absorbs sugar independent of the dietary source. It is regulated by active transport on the surface of the small intestines. Your body doesn't know the source of the fructose or glucose, nor does it care.
Hydrolyzed sucrose (regular old table sugar) and HFCS are metabolized in the same manner. There is no difference between them when it comes to how they are absorbed by the body. Fructose is fructose and glucose is glucose. All this fear is based on a misunderstanding of basic nutrition.
OLTG's Rules of Life #1: "Basically every problem in life can be traced back to some action of government."
In this case, high import tariffs on sugar and subsidies for corn.
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