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High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« on: March 23, 2010, 01:38:03 PM »
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

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A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: 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.

In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides. The researchers say the work sheds light on the factors contributing to obesity trends in the United States.
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2010, 01:40:38 PM »
Duh!

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Though I am an anomaly.  I drink pop all day and dont get no fats from it
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2010, 02:16:06 PM »
May be?  People love to bitch about how "diet" cola is bad for you.  I would never classify diet drinks as nutritious or beneficial, but I'd rather drink that stuff than the high fructose corn syrup-laden non-diet drinks.

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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2010, 04:08:44 PM »
May be?  People love to bitch about how "diet" cola is bad for you.  I would never classify diet drinks as nutritious or beneficial, but I'd rather drink that stuff than the high fructose corn syrup-laden non-diet drinks.

It's not just pop.
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High-fructose corn syrup is found in a wide range of foods and beverages, including fruit juice, soda, cereal, bread, yogurt, ketchup and mayonnaise.
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2010, 04:15:45 PM »
May be?  People love to bitch about how "diet" cola is bad for you.  I would never classify diet drinks as nutritious or beneficial, but I'd rather drink that stuff than the high fructose corn syrup-laden non-diet drinks.

its beneficial to diabetics.  kind of.  if thats what you want to call it.  My dad drinks it because otherwise his sugar goes through the roof.  Good ol' artificial sweeteners.
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2010, 05:37:18 PM »
Guyjin, that is obvious.  I was using diet soda as an example.  Diet soda won't make you skinnier, but regular soda is worse for your overall health.  HFCS is practically an industry standard.  The corn industry is friggin' HUGE.  It's almost as if real sugar is illegal... the proliferation of HFCS sure makes it seem that way.

Arkhan, I agree.

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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2010, 11:25:26 PM »
Guyjin, that is obvious. 

Was it? I had no idea it was in bread until I read about this: I went and looked and all my bread has HFCS in it.
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2010, 01:50:26 AM »
Yep, HFCS is used as a sweetener (sodas, juices, etc) and as a filler (bread, etc). You'd have to go out of your way to completely avoid it, it's in everything.

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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2010, 02:31:51 AM »
Diet soda won't make you skinnier, but regular soda is worse for your overall health.

Agreed.  If you're fat, then you eat too much and/or exercise too little; don't blame anyone else for your giant ass..... nom, nom, nom..... where'd my cookie go?

HFCS is practically an industry standard.  The corn industry is friggin' HUGE.  It's almost as if real sugar is illegal... the proliferation of HFCS sure makes it seem that way.

Indeed.  It's all about price - corn syrup is cheap due to government subsidies to corn farmers and sugar is disproportionately pricey due to tariffs and import quotas (i.e. - stupid gubmint).
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2010, 02:35:35 AM »
Duh!

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Though I am an anomaly.  I drink pop all day and dont get no fats from it

lol.. you're also around the 20. just wait till ya grown bit older :P
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2010, 05:37:27 AM »

lol.. you're also around the 20. just wait till ya grown bit older :P

listen, thats what tapeworms are for.

throw one of those suckers in with my oatmeal, down the hatch, and im on the road to weight loss
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2010, 06:08:12 AM »
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Was it? I had no idea it was in bread until I read about this: I went and looked and all my bread has HFCS in it.

I meant it was obvious it wasn't only in cola.  I think we'd all be surprised how much stuff HFCS is actually in.

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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2010, 09:11:48 AM »
I hear if you eat too much of it, it causes drain bamage.
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2010, 09:23:23 AM »
I hear if you eat too much of it, it causes drain bamage.

Are those words of personal experience?  :P

I prefer the crayon in the cranium method myself.
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Re: High Fructose Corn Syrup may be making you fat.
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2010, 09:34:50 AM »
I hear if you eat too much of it, it causes drain bamage.

Are those words of personal experience?  :P

I prefer the crayon in the cranium method myself.

Eating crayons adds more imagination to your drain.  Doesnt bamage it at all.

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