Study on fructose prompts criticism from corn refiners

Winston-Salem Journal ^ | July 14, 2013 | Richard Craver

[Buckeye McFrog]

There you have it. So don’t let your chimp drink ethanol.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Best thing I ever did was quit drinking the stuff. I dropped 18 lbs. and feel great.

[BuffaloJack]

I live near the Canadian border and any time that I go across into Canada, I buy Coca Cola, because it is made with cane sugar.
You can clearly taste the difference and the Canadian Coke is better, much better.

[EEGator]

I used to drink a ridiculous amount of Gatorade everyday. Cutting that out totally sucked. Now I only have water with lemon or plain green tea. You get used to it after a while.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link!

[Royal Wulff]

REAL sugar is half fructose.

[Red Badger]

Don’t buy the yellow drinks............

[Errant]

It's different though. I'll see if I can find some of the links I saved when looking into it. The HFCS fructose molecule is wound differently and the liver can't handle it, was what the research I read concluded.

They are many different sugar molecules.

[Errant]

I've drunk a ton of the purple dranks... ;) Used to buy the large packets that you mix with water, when I was doing a lot of welding - probably a quart per hour at least.

Once when running a dozer all day, after crushing my water jug, I started getting light headed and nauseous from the heat and lack of water. If it hadn't been for a half-gallon of the yellow stuff at the nearest store, I probably wouldn't be here on FR today.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Mexican Coke bottlers are allowed to use up to 65% HFCS in their sweetener ingredients.

I doubt real sugar is any better for you. It's the fiber in whole fruit that limits blood sugar spikes, from what I have read.

[Rokurota]

The HFCS fructose molecule is wound differently...

LOL! It's easier to just state you don't know.

[The Great RJ]

HFCS exists because of government subsidies to not only corn farmers but also sugar beet growers mostly in Eastern North Dakota and because of tariffs on cheaper imported sugar. Soft drinks using HFCS don't taste as good as their sugar based versions. Compare retro Mt. Dew available in some markets with the corn syrup product and you will taste a huge difference.

Corn farmers here in the Midwest are growing rich with record high corn prices largely due to government subsidies to both the HFCS industry and the ethanol boondoggle. Consumers get hit twice..once at the grocery store with higher food prices due to inflated corn prices and through higher taxes to subsidize producers like ADM and Poet Bio=refining as well as farmers.

[lwd]

I quit drinking soft drinks and lost 15 pounds immediately.

[Rokurota]

I quit drinking soft drinks and lost 15 pounds immediately.

That's nothing. I once quit eating food and lost 100 lbs.

[Little Ray]

Just don’t drink soft drinks. I wish I’d never learned to like colas and Mountain Dew.
Nowadays, it is ice water and unsweet tea for me.

[Errant]

LOL! It's easier to just state you don't know.

Okay, smart aleck...

There are two fructose structures, alpha and beta. The only distinguishing factor between the two is the location between the -OH and -CH2OH position located on carbon-2.

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If I tell you a rooster dips snuff, look under its wing for the can!

[Red Badger]

Don’t eat the yellow snow.............

[Errant]

:)

[dennisw]

I drink soda maybe 6 times a year. All those sweeteners have drawbacks whether it is fructose or the “diet” sweeteners which are worse for you

[facedown]

Both diets had the same amount of fat, carbohydrate and protein, but the sources were different, Kavanagh said. The high-fructose group’s diet was made from flour, butter, pork fat, eggs and fructose -- the main ingredient in corn syrup – similar to what many people eat.

By comparison, the control group’s diet was made from healthy complex carbohydrates and soy protein.

IOW all aspects of the diets were different yet the conclusion is that a single component in the "test" diet is responsible for the outcome?