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July 6th, 2006, 01:41 PM
|  | Newb | | Join Date: Jul 2006
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Rep Power: 0 | | | high fructose corn syrup
I have been reading alot lately about 'high fructose corn syrup'. From what I'm reading this is some pretty scary stuff and it's in everything. to quote some articles:
from the NewYorkTimes PHP Code: Professor Bray of the Pennington research center — a lean,
bespectacled man who had spent much of his career studying obesity
and diabetes — said he had been pondering the obesity problem
for several years when, in early 2002, he had a sudden insight.
Charting federal data on the consumption of high-fructose
corn syrup against data on obesity rates, he found amazing
parallels between his two graphs.
Starting in 1980, around the time that manufacturers
started replacing sugar in sodas with a more cheaply
produced sweetener — high-fructose corn syrup —
there was a sharp increase in male and female obesity
in the United States. From 1980 to 2000, the incidence
of obesity doubled, after having remained relatively flat
for the preceding 20 years, the data showed.
Could high-fructose corn syrup be making us fat,
Professor Bray wondered? After all, according to his
analysis of government consumption data,
per capita intake of the syrup had increased by more
than 1,000 percent from 1970 to 1990, exceeding the
changes in the intake of any other food group tracked by
the Department of Agriculture.
from the washingtonpost PHP Code: Another concern is the action of fructose in the liver,
where it is converted into the chemical backbone of
trigylcerides more efficiently than glucose.
Like low-density lipoprotein -- the most damaging form of
cholesterol -- elevated levels of trigylcerides are linked to an
increased risk of heart disease.
A University of Minnesota study
published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in
2000 found that in men, but not in women, fructose
"produced significantly higher [blood] levels" than did
glucose. The researchers, led by J.P Bantle, concluded
that "diets high in added fructose may be undesirable,
particularly for men."
Other recent research suggests that fructose may alter
the magnesium balance in the body. That could, in turn,
accelerate bone loss, according to a USDA study published
in 2000 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
yet another article PHP Code: "The medical profession thinks fructose is better for
diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the
body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must
be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the
high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics,
plugged with fat and cirrhotic."
I think I'm going to read label a little more...  |
July 6th, 2006, 01:50 PM
|  | The Objurgating Queen | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: near the search button
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Rep Power: 357932 | | | you would honestly be amazed at theamount of stuff that it's put into as well.. reading labels is a good thing...
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July 6th, 2006, 04:59 PM
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Rep Power: 26 | | | I was actually shocked at how it is in most brands of bread, even whole wheat kinds!
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July 8th, 2006, 04:00 PM
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Rep Power: 357932 | | I was in the grocery store today, and I wanted a loaf of bread -- I put back at least 10 loaves of bread - from well known commercial bakers - because listed in one of the top five ingredients was HFCS... The label of the bread claimed to be healthy- whole grain, high viber bread... Uh huh...  they missed the part about the sweetener..
It really is important to read the labels...
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July 16th, 2006, 04:31 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | | | It is shocking how prevalent HFCS is. I wonder why it has to be in things like bread? I don't understand. I guess sweet sells.
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