Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Amused
Topic Title: Study Finds 'Mind-Boggling' Rise in Morbid Obesity
Topic Summary: The prevalence of American adults who are 100 or more pounds over a healthy weight has risen dramatically since 2000
High Frutose Corn Syrup HFCS
It's hard to not buy something with this corn farmer subsidy in it.
Look at every label of everything you buy.
For example, there is only one Cranberry drink on the shelf without this crap in it.
Hopefully now that corn is become in such short supply because of the ethanol corn subsidy maybe it will force food manufacturers to not put HFCS in the food anymore.
Americans should be pissied off about all these things:
The corn farmer subsidy
The Food manufacturers paid off to pout the Corn Syrup in.
Our Government for causing it all because they are paid by lobbyists for all this.
The health care industry loves everyone overweight and having to visit them for this.
Dave, you should probably read the thread before posting such nonsense.
First, HFCS reacts the exact same way table sugar does in the body. The studies that found problems were flawed because they used straight Fructose. Not HFCS which is half fructose and half glucose; the exact same thing table sugar breaks down to in the body.
Secondly, your conspiracy theory is incorrect. HFCS came into use because of sugar tariffs creating an artificially high price for sugar in the US. These tariffs were passed to protect US sugar growers, NOT corn farmers.
There is no government or corporate conspiracy causing people to become obese Dave. Obesity is merely a sign of our own success. Now we have abundant food and never have to do any physical activity for work, or play. For many people's genes, that spells obesity.
I think his point is that due to the cost of HFCS relative to table sugar, there has been a net increase in the amount sucralose intake in the American diet. Seriously, just go to the store and look at labels; things that wouldn't normally be made with sugar are made with HFCS. Hell, in my own kitchen I've got gravy, tartar sauce, italan and thousand island dressing, and cocktail sauce, all of which are made with HFCS.
