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Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
http://www.princeton.edu ^ | March 22, 2010; 10:00 a.m. | by Hilary Parker

Posted on 10/25/2011 8:59:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Jack Hydrazine

[ How do you fatten up hogs? You feed them corn! DUH!!! ]
Neighbor used to have a dog that was gettign fatter and fatter even after they cut it’s food down to a cup of dog food a day....

It was sneaking into the hog feeders and eating the ground up corn.

So they made the fence around the hogs higher and the dog got thinner, then around august/september the dog was gainign weight again... They found it going intot he corn field and helping itself.....

Dog had to be kept on a leash.


21 posted on 10/25/2011 9:25:59 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: neverdem; DvdMom; grey_whiskers; Ladysmith; Roos_Girl; Silentgypsy; conservative cat; ...

Ping


22 posted on 10/25/2011 9:30:58 AM PDT by decimon
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To: GraceG

ROFLMAO! Going out to the cornfield to get loaded up, eh?

Put that dog on a leash or get an invisible fence for him.

If he barks to much because it just throw a anti-bark shock collar like this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOn9Ux0-pjo


23 posted on 10/25/2011 9:32:35 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: GraceG

So, they had a real live ‘Corn Dog’?..................


24 posted on 10/25/2011 9:35:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Obama's number one economics advisor must be a Magic Eight Ball.................)
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To: agrarianlady

Products with sugar cane are much more healthier for an individual than products with high-fructose corn syrup. Sugar Cane contains magnesium, calcium, and B2. Also, sugar cane is good for for digestion and has less calories than hfc.


25 posted on 10/25/2011 9:38:29 AM PDT by hippyhater
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To: agrarianlady

Products with sugar cane are much more healthier for an individual than products with high-fructose corn syrup. Sugar Cane contains magnesium, calcium, and B2. Also, sugar cane is good for for digestion and has less calories than hfc.


26 posted on 10/25/2011 9:38:42 AM PDT by hippyhater
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To: Red Badger

No worries here mate, I have no rats. :)


27 posted on 10/25/2011 9:39:54 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Fast & Furious , Solyndra & Light Squared would be enough to impeach any White President !!)
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To: dfwgator
Duh!

I know, right.. We already knew that high fructose sugar is the worse.

All foods with sugar, or carb-loaded foods that convert to sugar in the body, will pack on the pounds.
28 posted on 10/25/2011 9:42:01 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Give me Liberty or I'll stand up and get it for myself!")
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To: Red Badger

Maybe someone can tell us of some sucrose-sweetened food items we can buy. Are there any drinks that are sucrose-sweetened?


29 posted on 10/25/2011 9:44:51 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: frposty

Big Lots! here sell Cokes made in Mexico that are sweetened with sugar not HFCS. They don’t allow it in their foods..............


30 posted on 10/25/2011 9:47:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Obama's number one economics advisor must be a Magic Eight Ball.................)
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To: Huck
Is it a coincidence that citric acid is in almost all processed foods, and the RX shelves are full of Previcid, Prilosec, et al?

Maybe not, but I would blame wheat (ADM) for the acid problems. Even for people without celiac disease the human stomach just isn't designed to digest wheat easily, and Big Wheat has taken over even more of the food industry than Big Corn. Americans have been put on a routine where they eat a huge pasta dish for dinner, then gulp down Prilosec for dessert as if the wheat-induced acid reflux problem were medical in nature.

I hope this study helps discredit the "Corn Sugar" BS, but I doubt it will make much difference.

31 posted on 10/25/2011 9:47:42 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

I think a lot of people are missing the point. Both sugar and HFCS will pack on the pounds, but HFCS will do it very, very rapidly............


32 posted on 10/25/2011 9:50:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (Obama's number one economics advisor must be a Magic Eight Ball.................)
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To: Red Badger

this has been evident for decades.

the industry first worked on the so-called “high fructose” corn syrup in the ‘50s and ‘60s,

and then a japanese researcher finished the work in the ‘70s.

then they marketed it in “health food” stores to get the upscale consumers.

later, it gained wide acceptance,

ubiquitous in consumer products.


33 posted on 10/25/2011 9:53:43 AM PDT by ken21
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To: stylecouncilor; windcliff

sugary ping....


34 posted on 10/25/2011 9:53:54 AM PDT by onedoug (lf)
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To: frposty

Every now and then Pepsi will put out Pepsi and Mountain Dew sweetened with cane sugar. I think it is called Throwback or something like that. I saw it in the spring at Target.

Re: corn. We grew about 45 acres of corn and after harvest, there were some ears on the ground that had been missed. I went around on the gator with my dogs and picked up a bunch and hubby had them shucked and shelled. We had a huge ice chest filled with corn and he left it at the back of our farm. Stuff came up and we forgot about the corn for about a week. Well, I got back there and lifted the lid, Whoa!!! It had turned to alcohol!!! I dropped the lid down but didn’t lock it and went back up to the barn. When hubby got around to getting to the ice chest to dispose of it about 4 days later, he lifted the lid and not one kernel of corn was left. Best we can figure is that the raccoons and deer had themselves quite a party. And most likely a huge hangover.


35 posted on 10/25/2011 9:58:27 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Red Badger

[ So, they had a real live ‘Corn Dog’?.................. ]

It was a golden retreiver, seriously it was.


36 posted on 10/25/2011 10:03:49 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: agrarianlady

My grandmother was a dietician, and I’m from a ranching/farming family-there was plenty of fruit from the small orchard, but refined sugar was only found in the occcasional pie or batch of oatmeal cookies. Breakfast was oatmeal or other hot cereal, sweetened with honey-I only saw sugary boxed cereal if I did a sleepover at a friend’s home.

I don’t have a “taste” for sugar, and did not encourage my own cub to do so. As soon as she went off to college and began eating “dorm food”, she gained 20 pounds and has had a sugar craving and an intermittent weight problem ever since.

I avoid processed food, particularly if words ending in “ose” are included in the ingredients-as you say, poison. I’m 5’9” and weigh 108-110, on a small frame. Granted, my business requires physical work, but I believe diet is just as important to maintaining healthy weight.


37 posted on 10/25/2011 10:04:58 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"....)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I swear the colas tasted different and better back in the, oh, fifties. Does the fructose-rich sweetener taste a little different from sucrose?


38 posted on 10/25/2011 10:07:18 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

[ Duh!

I know, right.. We already knew that high fructose sugar is the worse.

All foods with sugar, or carb-loaded foods that convert to sugar in the body, will pack on the pounds. ]

Step 1. Feed Animals like Cows, Chickens, and Pigs Corn

Step 2. Eat those animals instead of Corn.


39 posted on 10/25/2011 10:07:30 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: frposty

I think so. The hfc flavored drinks taste so syrupy to me - I don’t drink them anymore- while the sugar cane sodas taste like they did in the 70s before hfc was used.
You can buy the Mexican cane sugar cokes from cash and carry stores for about $10 for 24 bottles.


40 posted on 10/25/2011 10:20:18 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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