Sugar vs. Corn Syrup

I introduced my favorite soda; Pepsi Throwback (made with Sugar) to my Mother who has had a ton of health problems due to Rumsfield's bioweapon otherwise know as Aspertame. She loved it and went back to her home in a small town to buy some. She could not find it so she asked the Pepsi guy where she could get some. He laughed at her and said that "we haven't had that for months, it is too expensive and therefore it is a limited time only product" Nice huh, try finding a soda without Corn Syrup...Good luck. I bought 12 cases in my town and wiped out several stores.

Either way, Americans are still ingesting 10 lbs more sweet stuff than we did 50 years ago.

Why support companies that make products with HFCS and only produce a small amount made with sugar to jump on the "health" bandwagon? Sc*w them. I'd rather give my money to the companies that have cared for a quality product and the environment from the beginning.

Support the companies that have always used sugar, fruit juice, honey, agave nectar etc.
Knudsen, San Pellegrino Limonata, Santa Cruz, Blue Sky, Boylans, Foxon Park, many Jamaican sodas, etc. Most of these can be drop shipped in cases if your local store doesn't carry them.

Ban High Fructose Corn Syrup

High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is not broken down like other sugars. Normal sugar is broken down by the pancreas, which results in the body releasing insulin to moderate blood sugar. HFCS is not recognized by the body as a sugar, it is broken down by the liver. Since the body does not recognize HFCS as a sugar, blood sugar level spikes wildly causing a reduction in the feeling of being full since it does not trigger the normal sugar and insulin response. HFCS has been linked to cirrhosis of the liver, fatty liver disease, type II diabetes and obesity. HFCS is cheep to make and has replaced nearly every food that once contained sugar. Most HFCS foods are aimed at children or young adult consumption. At the very least, ban HFCS from all cereals, juices, and bread products. The rise in obesity rates has direct links to HFCS and should be recognized as such. Stop subsidizing HFCS and restart subsidizing other sugars such as beet and sugar cane products. If you can’t ban HFCS then tax it to death, this will force predatory capitalists to go back to healthier sugars.

Genetically Modified corn and soybeans has been altered to splice in two elements. Resistance to Round Up herbicide and an insecticide called (bt) toxin. What HFCS manufacturers do not disclose is both of these genetic alterations to corn come through the HFCS process and is in your foods and drinks. (BT) toxin is known to alter the intestines of all organisms that eats it by thickening the intestinal wall, so if your a bug its equates to death, for humans, who knows. I have read that GM organisms also has a infertility effect on feed animals as well.

I am particularly non-green and very skeptical about food scares and generally will shovel any old junk down my throat. I think there's a lot of Chicken Littles out there.

However, I have become convinced that HFCS is problematic and its ubiquity is scary. It's even is sausages FFS. It's just plain hard to find nearly anything that doesn't contain the stuff. I am attempting to completely eliminate it from my diet but you have to think consciously about *everything* that you put in your mouth with this crap. If you don't know it doesn't have it, it probably does.

And why? This stuff wouldn't even be economical if the government weren't subsidizing corn crops with *our* money. It's just insanity.

there's a lot of misinformation posted here. table sugar (sucrose) is broken down in the body into glucose and fructose, which is *exactly* what hfcs is made up of! so you end up with the same thing either way. it's all sugar, and it's generally bad (except in small quantities).

it's *regular* Corn Syrup that's the *really* bad stuff -- pure glucose goes straight into the bloodstream. google "glycemic index" or "glycemic load" . i'm grateful that at least they convert some of the glucose into fructose when they make it into high-fructose corn syrup. fructose itself doesn't raise blood sugar much at all -- while being converted by the liver, it gives the pancreas time catch up. in fact pure fructose is sold as a sweetener that's safe for diabetics.

David B Rosen