notapillow said:

heres an actual informed video

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All he really said is that HFCS isn't that good for ya
neither is table sugar, but he isn't ranting about it

From his own mouth.....

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Its not gonna hurt you to have a small amount of HFCS occasionally

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Isn't that basically what the commercials were saying

Everything in moderation

Jimtown said:

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Coca-Cola in the US is made with corn syrup, not sugar.
Why?
One of the triumphs of American agribusiness is the ability to produce cheap calories. For example, in the seventies American corn production increased sharply. In 1971 a group of Japanese food scientists discovered a way to economically make a sweetener called high fructose corn syrup - six times sweeter than regular sugar (sucrose) and less expensive than sucrose. HFCS is a wonder. It is cheap. Using it in frozen foods protects against freezer burn. Using it in long shelf life foods (vending machine products) keeps the product fresh tasting. Using it in bakery products makes them look more natural. It also has, it turns out, a downside. It seems that fructose is metabolized differently than sucrose and dextrose. Sucrose and dextrose are broken down before they arrive at the liver; fructose goes directly to the liver where it is used a building block for triglycerides. In consequence fatty acids are released into the bloodstream. With enough fatty acids in the bloodstream muscle tissue develops insulin resistance - the precursor to type II diabetes.
9 percent of the average person's calories come from fructose; 20 percent of the average child's calories come from fructose.
Even more fun - fructose plays hob with the enzymes that "tell" cells whether to burn fat or store it. Fat is stored more readily in high fructose diets.
Good stuff. It is to die for.

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