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High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats
krou writes "In an experiment conducted by a Princeton University team, 'Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.' Long-term consumption also 'led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.' Psychology professor Bart Hoebel commented that 'When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight.'"
Problem solved.
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He could be lining up a series of responses!
Clark: Where's Eddie? He usually eats these goddamn things.
Catherine: Not recently, Clark. He read that squirrels were high in cholesterol.
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Yeah, I know you're snarking, but seriously, healthy rat meat would have a lot more nutritional value than the caloric equivalent of soda pop.
As for rats raised on high fructose corn syrup, they actually have nice marbled flesh. Fries up real good, and smells like cola on the grill.
Coffee is only good in the Irish variety.
Not a sentence!
Yep, I can see that commercial too.
Soft focus. Sunrise. Dew on the stalks. A ladybug rouses from slumber. Woman in her natural beauty walks barefoot through soft rows. A newborn baby is cradled in the arms of a woman who has, I promise you, never given birth.
The cutline/voiceover -- "Corn syrup. Made from nature. As natural as Hollywood breasts."
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
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Well, the other way around would mean that the rats that were doomed to become fat, caused themselves to get HFCS.
And that would be religious logic instead of scientific.
(Scientific logic is saying that it must be true because Princeton said so.)
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You know what Ars Technica means in Latin? Secret Evil Corn Lobby!
Subsidizing corn, soy, wheat, and other high calorie, easily stored and non-perishable foodstuff is responsible government policy. It's a precautionary measure, just like how the government maintains reserves of oil and gas. These reserves are in place to cushion the effects of some catastrophe that would impact our food supply (drought, mass famine, some sort of biological or nuclear incident, etc.). If spinach were high calorie and could be easily stored for years then the government would be subsidizing its production instead/as well.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
I sweeten my coffee with HFCS, you insensitive clod!
One thing seems for certain, Laboratory Rats are a miserable lot. They seem to be susceptible to cancer and just about everything else you can imagine. Why not test something really hardy instead? Why not politicians?
Rats are much better human analogs then politicians.
Fruit juice != fruit.
Drinking a tall glass of orange juice is the equivalent of eating 6~8 oranges, but without the fibers.
Your liver treats the massive sugar dump much differently than eating the equivalent # of [fruit].
The FDA wants to toss fruit juices into the same category of "bad" drinks as sugar laden sodas.
That can't be right! I have it on good authority that drinking 1 oz. of Mona Vie acai berry juice is even healthier than 12 servings of fruits and vegetables. It comes from a super fruit, from the Amazon jungles! In fact, recent studies have shown that just purchasing a case of these stylish bottles may have an immediate positive effect on your interpersonal relationships (with any and all family and friends who have invested in the authorized reseller program). So, I say "Bah!" to your "science". Mona Vie has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.