May 1, 2007
I'm going to put this out there: from the little evidence I have, it appears to me that High Fructose Corn Syrup is connected to the insanely high rate of diabetes in the US, and the high incidence of obesity.
And while I haven't seen much research on the connection HFCS has to poor health- I doubt we'll see a study any time soon, as it's used in almost every American made product.
I don't particularly like conspiracy theories - this one seems plausible. Hopefully I'll be able to find more evidence soon... If you have thoughts or ideas, please share.
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I remember hearing that soda in Europe has real sugar rather than HFCS and that was part of the reason Europeans are less obese . . . again, no idea if there's truth to it.
While I've been thinking about this theory for about 6 months now, just the other day I was at the supermarket and saw two sodas next to each other on the shelf: Orangina, and San Pellegrino (Aranciata flavor).
Orangina used HFCS, San Pellegrino used sugar.
It was the first time it hit me that it really was just US brands that are using HFCS b/c of how much cheaper it is (in no small part due to our government subsidies...
Yes, I agree that HFCS is very bad, I have my copy of omnivore's dilemma reserved at the library that I have to pick up today.
Costco introduced mexican coke recently which has real sugar: http://www.seriouseats.com/required_eating/2007/05/costco-is-selling-mexican-coke.html
And why do we have so much HFCS you ask? Because corn is subsidized by the U.S. gov't. When the plan was initially put in place, it was a good thing for our farmers, nobody thought of these affects. We have more corn in our diet then any other nation and we throw incredibly hight taxes on sugar from our south american friends. It was invited in our liftime 1980, and is very un-natural.
But it's so f'n hard to drink something that doesn't have it...
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