This should make it all better.
The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar.
The Corn Refiners Association applied Tuesday to the federal government for permission to use the name on food labels. The group hopes a new name will ease confusion about the sweetener, which is used in soft drinks, bread, cereal and other products.
Americans’ consumption of corn syrup has fallen to a 20-year low on consumer concerns that it is more harmful or more likely to cause obesity than ordinary sugar, perceptions for which there is little scientific evidence.
However, some scientists have linked consumption of full-calorie soda – the vast majority of which is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup – to obesity.
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There’s a new online marketing campaign at and on television. Two new commercials try to alleviate shopper confusion, showing people who say they now understand that “whether it’s corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can’t tell the difference. Sugar is sugar.”
The name change was Eric Schmidt’s idea.
High glycemic processed carbohydrates over time interfere with the bodies processing of insulin leading to various bad health effects including premature death. These could all be overcome by 8 hours of moderate exercise per day which is not harmonious with a cyber life.
High glycemic processed carbohydrates: raw sugar, hfcs, wheat flour, etc.
If you aren’t going to exercise 8 hours per day, minimizing high glycemic foods is one mostly ineffective response as these cheap food items are “everywhere.” For instance: “Fat Free Garlic Seasoning” for popcorn shows HFCS as the second most common ingredient.
Its difficult to get consumers to even read a label much less understand what the label says. Certainly this is the tip of the iceberg in a grand corporate design to extract money from consumers while slowly poisoning them.
Silly Hoomans-giving it all to corporate interests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Syrup
Stop making HFCS the bogeyman.
Don’t eat too much, control your calorie intake and excessive to burn off more then your body needs naturally. Don’t get fat. It’s simple math.
#24 Nah! It’s always somebody else’s fault. It’s the lefty loon motto.
Cornholio lives! (Need TP for my bunghole.) HFCS comes from Lake Titicaca in Nicaragua. The streets shall run red with the blood of the nonbelievers!
Do they think the public is so dense? It’s still HFCS no, the body wouldn’t tell any difference. Well, for them this is better than sulking in corner.
How about calling it “HCCS”
High Cost Corn Syrup.
Businesses who use sugar are fleeing America to escape the ultra-high sweetener prices here, all put in place by a government protecting their friends who grow expensive corn and beet sugar.
Last year, sugar in world was selling for $18/ton, US High Cost Corn Syrup costs $32/ton.
Do the math.
HFCS also seems to make you fatter than consuming the same amount of cane sugar, according to this Princeton study.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
Read The Omnivore’s Dilemna, it explains how HFCS became mainstream in early 80′s.
Try this experiment: don’t eat anything that lists HFCS among the first 3 ingredients.
Voila: you will avoid most processed food and by a process of elimination (no pun, honest) wind up with a fairly healthy diet. Stop eating anything with artificial sweeteners and you’ll find yourself less hungry. G’head give it a shot for a week or 2.
#10 Hector, get a clue.
The overall amounts of CORN and SOY in our diets is way out of whack. Both are in everything. It’s crap food, that is horrid for people, dogs, cats, whatever.
We need to stop eating this stuff, and get it banned. Not rename it and go ‘la de dah’ on our merry fat way
I used to eat tons of cane and beet sugar when I was young, I was always skinny. When HFCS came on the scene, my weight has steadily increased over time.
I now avoid it whenever possible, and my weight has dropped. Its pretty tough though, as food makers are sneaking it in everything.
#30. I agree completely. Haven’t eating a processed food in over a decade. No more depression, among other things.
The joy of foods that have flavor. YUM. Now just the smell of a Big Mac makes me want to puke.
In addition to HFCS, avoid Acid-hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP, (from wiki) is produced by boiling cereals or legumes, such as soy, corn, or wheat, in hydrochloric acid and then neutralizing the solution with sodium hydroxide.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-hydrolyzed_vegetable_protein
Crap is in everything. It’s cheap. It was also one of the biggest salmonella recalls in history, only the news forgot to report on it:
http://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/majorproductrecalls/hvp/default.htm
So, if those chips you were eating caused some loose bowels a day later, joke is on you. The CDC doesn’t keep track of “gastroenteritis” but newspapers across the country had articles about the widespread gastroenteritis from January through April in 2010.
Hmmm, coincidence?
#33–diane==so what’s wrong with HVP? Your link concludes it is safe. A few years ago I looked at Braggs Liquid as a source for amino acids and reading its label couldn’t tell the difference between it and regular Soy Sauce so at 10 times the price, I passed. I’m sure there are many differences, but its not clear what they are.
Something as basic a FOOD: and we don’t really know what we need or what we’re getting outside of generalities and impossibilities: eat a balanced diet and exercise to burn it off. Would that such could be true.
HFCS is to corn as crack is to cocaine.
Wow. I just goggled ‘cane sugar’ and came across this About.com article with the following tag line at the end:
Remember, your body doesn’t care what the label says, it’s all just “sugar”!
I guess the marketing started early.
#25
I fail to see how this is a “lefty” issue. If anything the Right has shown a similar lack of understanding of what per reviewed science is. Global Warmining Denialism and Intelligent Design are two such examples.
#34 It’s a good thing you asked about HVP and not HPV. That would have been rude.
#35 Basically. But some people answer here as if obesity will disappear once HFCS also disappears.
#37 It is lefty ’cause most of the criers here are known lefty loons.
This campaign against high fructose corn syrup is probably much ado about nothing. maybe real sugar is better, with its sucrose, but fructose is just fruit sugar.
Real science doesn’t have “consensus”. Do a little digging and you’ll find there isn’t even consensus on general relativity.
As far as HFCS goes, replace it in your diet with more meat. Better all around.