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High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover
An anonymous reader writes "With its sweetener linked to obesity, some cancers and diabetes, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) doesn't want you to think 'fructose' when you see high fructose corn syrup in your soda, ketchup or pickles. Instead, the AP reports, the CRA submitted an application to the FDA, hoping to change the name of their top-selling product to 'corn sugar.'"
Funny thing is, it's not as if high-fructose corn syrup is actually worse for you than a similar amount of cane sugar. The problem is not HFCS as much as it is "foods loaded with sugar."
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Cane sugar has more fructose than high-fructose corn syrup.
Corn sugar is actually a more accurate name, though high glucose sugar would be even more accurate.
"veal" sounds better than tortured baby cow...
Cane (table) sugar is 50% fructose. So, if fructose is evil, table sugar is only 10% less evil than HFCF 55.
I'm lead to believe that the glycosidic bond is broken down before the sugar hits the bloodstream, so this small difference in the fructose/glucose ratio is genuinely the only practical (metabolic) difference.
I'm neither a Chemist nor a nutritionist, so corrections are welcome!
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Makes sense from a consumer standpoint, but food producers have interests too. Understand that there is a specific rule that requires them to state that the syrup is high in fructose. If we can't justify why that should be required, then maybe that requirement should be lifted.
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Sugar is not bad, too much sugar is bad. Too little is bad too. My mother, and my Bother and Sister-in-law are all diabetic. I could tell you why, because they didn't pay attention to what they are eating. I could have as many sodas with sugar or HFCS as I want, and be perfectly fine, because I consciously do not want too much.
I am an EMT student, I have learned about diabetes in class, and seen it in my family. Honestly, unless you were born with it, if you get it, it was probably your fault, unless something else was wrong with you.
Bottom line is, how about we all quit complaining about what it is they put in food, and just choose what you eat carefully.
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nor, I might add, did the article I linked. Guess you didn't bother to read it.
That's a good guess, considering you didn't actually link to an article. Did you forget to include it?
I presume you are talking about this study, which does seem to indicate that cancer cells proliferate more when fed a diet of fructose. 'More' is the key, since cancer cells seem to grow quite healthy (according to the article) with any kind of sugar.
I just think it's dumb that people get so outraged about HFCS, and ignore normal sugar. It's all bad, and I want to cry whenever I see someone drinking a sugar-soda and thinking they are being healthy.
Also, I'd bet that at normal levels, neither fructose nor sucrose is particularly bad. Fructose is a major component of the sugar in apples, for example. It's only when you binge on the stuff that it's bad for you; and at that point, arguing about which is worse is kind of silly, you're hurting yourself either way.
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There is no evidence of that, what so ever.
Oh, and the sweeteners myth shows you are nothing but someone that regurgitates crap, and doesn't do any research what so ever.
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