New Commercials saying High Fructose Corn Syrup...

[Nirvikalpa]

... is just as safe as sugar! Nearly fell of my chair when I saw these two commercials playing on my TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0

Government propaganda - this is as good as it gets.

:mad:

[A. Havnes]

Actually, sugar isn't exactly safe, either. It causes more heart problems and causes more weight gain than regular fatty foods do. Now I've got to find the link I read that on...

I wish people would stop trying to push all this junk on the consumer. Just give us the real facts and let us make our own choices. Heck, we all eat chocolate knowing that it does more harm than good - they shouldn't feel the need to lie to us to get us to eat their filth.

[flpr86]

Well, I guess they figure it's better than pushing toxic sugar free things. ;)

[ChickenHawk]

Sugar isn't bad for you. In fact you will die without it. The problem is people eat too much sugar.

[A. Havnes]

True, sugar isn't necessarily bad for you, but we eat way too much of it - to the point that it is much more dangerous for us than most other fatty foods. What can I say, Americans are addicted to sugar, and it's put in a lot of stuff.

Safer than high fructose corn syrup, at any rate. ;)

[Andrew Ryan]

I like soda.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Check this out... I highly recommend watching it. It's a little dated, before CORN skyrocketed because of the Government's ADDITIONAL Subsidies associated with the ETHANOL mandate.

HFCS - Sulfuric Acid is used to strip the sugars out of corn in the process... :(


http://www.kingcorn.net/ (http://www.kingcorn.net/)

http://www.neoflix.com/files/ucart/66_S_1196271609.jpg

[heavenlyboy34]

OP-this link http://sweetsurprise.com/ will allow you to watch the commercial you mentioned and several others...so much propaganda, you'll get a sweet tooth!

[heavenlyboy34]

I like soda.

soda with high fructose corn syrup is evil! (unless you have time to burn off all the sugar and carbs, which I sure don't)

Get the stuff at the health food store, trader joe's, etc, that isn't loaded with artificial stuff.

[AutoDas]

HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. White sugar is 55% glucose and 45% fructose. So yeah this campaign has something going for it and that is the people don't know a damn thing about why they should or shouldn't eat something. I'm not supporting them because they obviously receive Government subsidies and they both aren't healthy choices.

[DrRP08]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=153882&highlight=high+fructose+corn+syrup

lol

[s35wf]

Actually, sugar isn't exactly safe, either. It causes more heart problems and causes more weight gain than regular fatty foods do. Now I've got to find the link I read that on...

I wish people would stop trying to push all this junk on the consumer. Just give us the real facts and let us make our own choices. Heck, we all eat chocolate knowing that it does more harm than good - they shouldn't feel the need to lie to us to get us to eat their filth.


Americans eat Way TOO much sugar; just try to find food or soft drinks without tons of added sugar/HFCS in your grocery store. It takes like 20 minutes of reading various labels just for me to buy tomato sauce with no sugar or hfcs in it!

Also REAL chocolate is very Good for you; but you need to buy Real chocolate with NO/very little added sugar. Like a good 85% pure cacao choc bar! Sure it'll cost you $3+ per bar; but its very healthy chocolate! Try a bag of pure cacao nibs!

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMo3gOWC8h0&watch_response

[tmosley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMo3gOWC8h0&watch_response

That video made my day.

[notbornyesterday]

Classic book from the 1970s. Good read.

I still like my sugary treats now and then, but not so much as a staple.

BTW, what's up with Mexican Coke having real sugar and costing something like $2 a bottle retail (in Northern California) and American-made Coke having HFCS and costing so much less? Is it REALLY that much more expensive to make pop with sugar? Or might it have something to do with what the big boys want us to think of as "free trade"?


NBY

[revolutionman]

i saw this on TV a week or so ago. i was like "wtf!?"

I'm tellin ya, this world is gonna end up like Idiocracy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHElbD1imNo

[ryanmkeisling]

Classic book from the 1970s. Good read.

I still like my sugary treats now and then, but not so much as a staple.

BTW, what's up with Mexican Coke having real sugar and costing something like $2 a bottle retail (in Northern California) and American-made Coke having HFCS and costing so much less? Is it REALLY that much more expensive to make pop with sugar? Or might it have something to do with what the big boys want us to think of as "free trade"?


NBY

I think it is the sugar quotas set by the Gov. in favor of the corn lobby. In Mexico sugar costs less by comparison. Costco sells Mexican Coke by the case, 24 bottles $17.95 right nest to the HFCS coke in cans. Walmart also carries the same product in the Hispanic foods section. I think the real difference is that it just tastes better. Sugar in any form is not meant to be over indulged.

Those commercials are paid for by the Corn refiners association. The have a nifty little website set up: www.sweetsurprise.com
They are clearly a lobbyist group or representative of one. TV commercials are one of the most effective ways to infiltrate the minds of Americans and in America Truth is a gray area. I think these commercials are hilarious.

[Wendi]

Natural sugar, in moderation, isn't bad for you. Highly refined sugar in large concentrations, which is what most Americans get, can be very bad for you. Your body isn't designed to handle it in that form. The same can be said for synthetic sugar substitutes (chemicals). Funny thing nature is... what occurs naturally, appears to be what our bodies are best able to process...

[DamianTV]

http://www.westonaprice.org/motherlinda/cornsyrup.html


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But there's another reason to avoid HFCS. Consumers may think that because it contains fructose--which they associate with fruit, which is a natural food--that it is healthier than sugar. A team of investigators at the USDA, led by Dr. Meira Field, has discovered that this just ain't so.

Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose. When sugar is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems, especially when the rats were deficient in certain nutrients, such as copper. The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems. So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose. The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results. The male rats did not reach adulthood. They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy--that means that their hearts enlarged until they exploded. They also had delayed testicular development. Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.) In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart. The females were not so affected, but they were unable to produce live young.

"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."

HFCS contains more fructose than sugar and this fructose is more immediately available because it is not bound up in sucrose. Since the effects of fructose are most severe in the growing organism, we need to think carefully about what kind of sweeteners we give to our children. Fruit juices should be strictly avoided--they are very high in fructose--but so should anything with HFCS.

Interestingly, although HFCS is used in many products aimed at children, it is not used in baby formula, even though it would probably save the manufactueres a few pennies for each can. Do the formula makers know something they aren't telling us? Pretty murky!



Wow. After a ten second google search...

[orafi]

It takes like 20 minutes of reading various labels just for me to buy tomato sauce with no sugar or hfcs in it!



you know, if you remember the brand, you won't have to keep looking for non sugar/hfc tomato sauce and keep wasting 20 minutes everytime you visit the grocery store ;)

[DAFTEK]

:)