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- reeder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+66No *****.
- carbonetc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+42The other day I decided to refuse to put anything with HFCS in my grocery basket just to see what I would be left with. The only things I ended up with that were remotely sweet were from the organics/international aisle. That stuff is in EVERYTHING.
- thehans, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29What's next? Are you going to tell me that cigarettes are bad for you.
- soupcancooloff, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26When I drink soda I feel my teeth rotting/decaying a little bit, I know it sounds absurd but I know someone here will agree.
- patch6, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Maybe if corn wasn't so ridiculously oversubsidized it would phase itself out. As it is, it is the cheapest sweetener by far, due to that glut of corn production.
- psygnisfive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24The problem with soda's with HFCS is that that kind of sugar doesn't trigger proper insulin release like cane sugar does. Not only will that lead to diabetes, but the lack of insulin means you don't feel satisfied and don't stop drinking the soda, thus becoming overweight. If we all drank Jones, with it's pure cane sugar, we'd be in better shape.
- ussoldier, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19I'm 39, a computer programmer, have been addicted to softdrinks all my life, have been trying to quit for the last 10 years (to various degrees of success), and I have severe diabetes because of them. There is no 'question' about this, no further tests necessary... I'm living proof. The habitual consumption of soft drinks (and they are addictive as cigarettes) containing HFCS and caffeine will make your cells insulin resistant, and you will feel alternatly full of energy, able to think brilliantly... and then fatigued, confused, and stupid. It took me 20 years to figure it out; as a teenager in college I literally was on a rollercoaster from hell and thought I was insane and going out of my mind.
The caffeine beats down on your cell walls to let the sugar in, even once they become insulin resistant, so you become dependent on these things, otherwise you are confused and chronically fatigued all the time in a viscious cycle. Too much sugar in your bloodstream is dangerous, and so it is taken up in cells as fat. In your teens and twenties you can abuse your body and it won't show, but you hit 30 and it will all hit your belly and you'll start looking like you are f*ing prego. Not to mention in the final stages, you'll have lots of gas coming out both ends... and you'll be burping like you wouldn't believe. As you become older a good number of people become lactose intolerant as well. The empty calories will rob your body of vitaims and minerals to process them, and you will become psycho suicidal depressed from drinking too much soft drinks. I'm not kidding. You will absolutely go catatonic depressed insane.
I probably would of ended up killing myself unknowingly if I hadn't figured it all out in time through research on the net, and started consuming lots of fresh vegtables and vitamins instead. Exercising to build up insulin resistance and fight the weight. Take fiber to clear out the candita albicans. Buy glucophage online, you can get it cheaply, and it apparently does help if you have diabetes.
The crime is there are no warning stickers on these things at all.. and there should be. I thought it was just a conveinent form of 'food'. This stuff is not food at all. Its conveient cheap death in a pretty and slickly packaged can, or as Dave Letterman put it, liquid maneur. Profit to the corporation, at the expense of your health, with no way to pin it directly on the corporation. They did it however with cigarettes, and they need to now nail corporations such as Cadburry-Schwepps (Dr. Pepper - one of the worst of the log), Coca Cola, and Pepsi on these unhealthy and toxic products.
No, drinking one soda won't kill you. Or ten. Its when you become addicted intially to their conveinence, their taste, that you get on the roller coaster ride of sugar rushes and crashes, and caught in the calorie and caffeine addiction cycle where you have to drink them to keep functioning, because your body tries to compensate for this madness. Its like dumping gasoline into a house and lighting it on fire to warm yourself. Soot, smell, toxic fumes, and then the fire is out, and you need more. Only its a very poor insane way to try and stay warm. You want a nice fireplace where the energy is consumed and released slowly and steadily over a long period of time... - smacksaw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Soft drinks made with cane sugar taste way better. Like AfriCola. Same with candy. You get that Cadbury stuff in Europe and it's made with beet sugar and it tastes like ass. Then you get it from South Africa and it's made with pure cane sugar and the taste and texture are amazing.
The moral? Not only does real cane sugar taste better, it's better for you. This doesn't surprise me. - Dumbledorito, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15The best thing about living near the border with Mexico: Coke with real sugar in it. I heard a rumor CostCo carries the real-sugar version, too.
- EvilMoose, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I wish soda companies would realize that people would pay a premium for sodas made with real cane sugar. We can call it Coke III or Pepsi III and people would snatch it up.
- brusty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Try to find real sugar sweetened cola at the grocery store, I dare you.
Hansen's & Blue Sky both have High Fructose Corn Syrup in their "natural" sodas. - Kdurrty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Drink more water & tea. Soda makes you feel bloated anyway.
- ScottDaMan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Try avoiding HFCS + aspartme + sucralose (splenda). Shopping is ***** for me on my new diet. Been on it for 9 days and lost over 5 pounds and I feel SO much better.
- manuelhp42, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Why am I not surprised? :(
http://tudiabetes.com/forum/topic/show?id=583967%3ATopic%3A34478 - troye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10This is America, everything has HFCS in it.
- superflydugg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11legal poison. stuff like this is the beginning of the end for stuff like HFCS, you better watch out partially hydrogenated soybean oil, you're next. I always thought it was weird that HFCS is illegal in Mexico but not here. legal poison.
- BESTenemy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Ahh! Soft drinks! Full of corporate goodness!
- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8And if real sugar didn't have such high tariffs on it.
- smacksaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Can't we use this high-fructose corn syrup to power our vehicles like the Brasilians use cane sugar to make alcohol for theirs?
Or even better, can't we use high-fructose corn syrup to power BRASILIAN cars and use their cane sugar to make better tasting and better for you food for the USA? - pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7not easy to find, but kosher versions of soda are made without corn syrup.
- nebion, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7That's not the point; the point is that HFCS is much unhealthier than regular (cane) sugar.
I hate the fact that now they're starting to use the ***** to replace sugar here in Europe, as well. - Myztry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Australia uses sugar cane. It grows better here, is thus cheaper, is thus the ingredient in Coke and Pepsi. Always amuses me to see those Corn Fields on US films. Seems there is a serious side to that difference though. But then our food crops aren't subsidized like crazy, so maybe that's the real issue.
- zachshmack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Dr. Pepper's from Dublin, TX and also Mexican Coca-Cola
- s33k4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8This has been known for sometime now :S
- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8"HFCS is illegal in Mexico"
Where the hell did you get that from? Other countries use sugar instead of HFCS because it's cheaper for them, not because HFCS is poisonous. The US uses HFCS because corn is subsidized and sugar is tariffed. - anarchytv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You can't blame the consumer to be aware 100% of the time of everything out there that is toxic. When HFCS was introduced there was no widespread populous internet to spread the word; only because of the internet do we even have a chance to know about this now... you think the corporations are going to volunteer a warning on their products that they cause severe health problems? Show me one soft drink package with one warning, anywhere... Must watch video follows: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nU3lBD4dwM8
- manicallday, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I think that they should do a test on which will kill you faster, HFCS or aspartame.
- rkzda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yes, however High fructose Corn Syrup is worse than Cane sugar. This study coincides with another study which stated drinking even a can of soda daily raised the risk of diabetes substantially.
- ombudsman100, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I lost weight without lifting a finger in exercise simply by cutting this crap out of my diet when at all possible. Yeah, you won't be able to eat processed crap, so move on to real food.
- superal1394, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6So, drinking a highly sugary drink every day, several times a day, causes a disease where my body can no longer cope with sugar?
This is heavy...
(btw, no ***** is exactly what crossed my mind when i read the headline) - Anth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Good thing I gave up soda 10 years ago....
- Grok22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7if we all didnt drink soda we would be in better shape.
- brusty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Fat Land by Greg Critser explains in detail the direct link between high fructose corn syrup & obesity.
- DownIsTheNewUp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5If this were a just world, a horrible drug like HFCS would be outlawed. Just goes to show the powers that be want everyone to be overweight.
- barroni, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I use to work for Coca Cola got addicted and drank the ***** all day and night and end up with type 2 Im a case study for someone
- Cubsguru, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I bought a case at the Henderson, NV Costco about a month ago. Tastes better at least.
- Marijuana, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Costco carried the legit Mexican coke for Cinco de Mayo.
- gl77, on 03/31/2008, -0/+5damn near all processed foods that you buy in a store have high fructose corn syrup in them though, just look at some of the ingredients on some foods in your kitchen, its amazing.
- Yeasty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6from the "no *****" department
- ferrix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5My Jones bottles all list HFCS. I *wish* they'd move to cane sugar. Oh Jones, I love you so.... why must you harm me?
- jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5HFCS also blocks the hormone Leptin, which sends the signal to the brain that a person is "full", or satisfied.
- JFitzpatrick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It isn't just HFCS, it's sugar in general that is wrecking Western nations.
In the United States, for example, prior to 1890, the average American consumed less than 5lbs. of sugar per year. As of the 1990s, the average American was consuming 153lbs of sugar per year. 153 pounds! To put that in perspective, the great grand children of those 19th century Americans were consuming more sugar per year than the average weight of their grandparents. Crazy. - Capta1nA, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Shop at Trader Joe's or Whole Foods if you have one nearby. It's easy to avoid HFCS there.
- ClOlD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That sensation is because of the PH, not the carbohydrates.
- JohnnyXmas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I know we say "No *****," but nothing had ever officially PROVED it until now.
And giving up soda doesn't make much of a difference when almost everything else you eat is made with corn syrup. - MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I don't know if I would say that for myself, but I definitely feel that rough I-gotta-brush-my-teeth feeling after I drink one. I usually avoid them.
- Ocelot13, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6well dr pepper says these studies are incorrect. and he wouldnt lie to me would he?
- liquidcola, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'm in the U.K. right now, and it's not really that hard here to find pop (I'm from the midwest, we don't call it soda) in grocery stores. They're pretty much ALL made with sugar. And let me tell you, they taste a lot better that way too. Also, HFCS is in EVERYTHING in the states. Companies know what it does to people, and that they will consume a hell of a lot more of whatever has it in it.
- dragonlor20, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It's in soda, yeah, and just about everything else ridiculously sweet. Everything in moderation folks.
- quinster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I used to drink a lot of coke. Was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Dropped the pop, made a few other diet changes, started walking more, and my blood glucose and hemoglobin A1C levels became normal within 2 months.
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