The Government Must Ban High Fructose Corn Syrup now It’s the no 1 leader in obesity today. When I was growing up in the 50′s we were a family of 4 we were poor , but ate well nobody was overweight ,the most men would experience at middle age was a pot belly , women tended to get heaver after giving birth to a few babies. we were 4 people and used 1 roll of toilet paper for a week , today people buy it by the case multi paks and everyone uses 1 roll every 3 days , thats outrageous when you think about it, many in the medical field that all this obseity stems from High Fructose Corn Syrup, so do I.Its cheap the food industry favors it over sugar , we’ve become a society of fat lazy slobs ban the syrup now ..end
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Hi Don,
My google alert for HFCS picked up your post. I really
wish we could ban the industrial sweetener, HFCS; however, the Corn Refiners Association is one powerful
lobby.
Meanwhile we are making progress in getting the HFCS-out. Starbuck’s, Whole Foods, Snapple, and now Hunt’s
has said “no HFCS”. Please share this website: StopHFCS.com. They have an extensive list of HFCS-free foods and beverages. The only way to fight this
Goliath is through market forces.
Meanwhile let your readers in on this math lesson.
The CRA claims that sugar and HFCS, which are both comprised of fructose and glucose, have virtually the
same composition. This is patently misleading.
Sucrose, a disaccharide of fructose linked to glucose,
is precisely 1:1 or 50%:50%. HFCS-55, which sweetens all national brands of soda is 55%fructose:45% glucose. This may appear to be just 5% different than the 50:50
of sucrose, until you actually calculate the ratio.
55%:45% = 55/45 =1.22. This means that in every American Coke there is, compared to glucose, 22% more fructose. Research has show that excess fructose suppresses leptin receptors, causes insulin resistance, and elevated triglycerides which lead to obesity and
type II diabetes.
And remeber the corn chemists designed that ratio.
Sucrose may be no saint, but HFCS-55 creates a fructose>>glucose imbalance which is metabolically hazardous.
Working to get the HFCS-out,
Cynthia Papierniak, M.S.