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High Fructose Corn Syrup
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: zxcvbob wrote: David Hare-Scott wrote: zxcvbob wrote: Billy wrote: Since we seem to have jumped the tracks here anyway, let me just observe that the only people left in the industrialized world who don't know about the deleterious health effects of HFCS must be watchers of FOX NEWS (Murdoch & Co.), and, therefore, supporters of Glen Beck, and Sarah Palin. HFCS is not significantly worse than cane sugar or beet sugar or honey. All four are made up of approximately the same proportions of glucose and fructose. That doesn't mean HFCS is good for you, quite the opposite; it means sugar and honey are worse for you than ppl think. No. Cane sugar and beet sugar are almost 100% sucrose. I can't lay my hands on an analysis for beet sugar (which we don't get much here) but white refined cane sugar is one of the most pure chemical substances that you will find in your kitchen. Yes, but sucrose is fructose + glucose. Bob True depending on what meaning you give to the "+", in this case it is false. The compound sucrose behaves chemically quite differently to the mixture of the two compounds fructose and glucose. Any chemistry textbook will show you examples of this. The issue being disputed is how human metabolism reacts in the two cases. For that have a look he http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFCS David I think a peek at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose would be more enlightening. (1) Fructose is also seventy-three percent sweeter than sucrose (see 2.1 Relative Sweetness) at room temperature . . . (2) "Eating fructose instead of glucose results in lower circulating insulin and leptin levels, and higher ghrelin levels after the meal.[58] Since leptin and insulin decrease appetite and ghrelin increases appetite, some researchers suspect that eating large amounts of fructose increases the likelihood of weight gain.[59]" (3) And then there is http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/a...dex.xml?sectio n=topstories A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain. ---- What we have above is (2): fructose increases appetite, which (1) makes increased sweetness more attractive to the consumer. And (3) that consumers of HFCS gain weight, even on the comparable diets where sucrose eaters eating the same number of calories, don't gain weight. Ten thousand years ago (before agriculture), glucose was mainly consumed as starch, and fructose consumption was an annual event, coinciding with the ripening of fruits in the fall. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html |
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