These commercials make me so angry.

[Nerdius Maximus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BJJGzbN3fg

I love how it depicts people who question the wisdom of ingesting high fructose corn syrup as bumbling idiots who don't know what they're talking about.

 

[John Picard]

HFCS is poison. I encourage anyone and everyone to watch the PBS documentary King Corn. It will shock and amaze you at how pathetic and truly dangerous the food supply in the US is. We may have the cheapest food in the world, but it is the most unhealthy. I about jumped out of my chair when the process for making HFCS was explained. One of the ingredients (IIRC) is sulfuric acid. HFCS also has no nutritional value. I rarely drink cola anyway, but in the last two years, I noticed that I would get a belly ache after drinking Coke, Pepsi, or even RC. They all have HFCS in it. If I go to the local organic grocer and buy colas made with Agave nectar or unprocessed sugar then I have no digestive issues.

 

[Docbrown777]

Oh well, at least we have this commercial.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Oh well, at least we have this commercial.

Ah, good to see she's working.

 

[vampgrrl]

Poor Karen Walker.

 

[Amaris]

HFCS is poison. I encourage anyone and everyone to watch the PBS documentary King Corn. It will shock and amaze you at how pathetic and truly dangerous the food supply in the US is. We may have the cheapest food in the world, but it is the most unhealthy. I about jumped out of my chair when the process for making HFCS was explained. One of the ingredients (IIRC) is sulfuric acid. HFCS also has no nutritional value. I rarely drink cola anyway, but in the last two years, I noticed that I would get a belly ache after drinking Coke, Pepsi, or even RC. They all have HFCS in it. If I go to the local organic grocer and buy colas made with Agave nectar or unprocessed sugar then I have no digestive issues.

HFCS also aids in the increase of obesity. Foods and beverages containing HFCS do not trigger the receptors in the stomach that signal the brain it is full. People overeat without realizing it, and continue to feel hungry.

I went on the Pritikin program a few days ago. I already feel better than I did.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I quit soda about a month ago and I can definitely tell the difference. I don't get random headaches or stomach aches, and I just feel better all around. I try to avoid HFCS in anything I do eat or drink, too. Real sugar for me!

 

[SiorX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BJJGzbN3fg

I love how it depicts people who question the wisdom of ingesting high fructose corn syrup as bumbling idiots who don't know what they're talking about.

Yeah. If the only way you can win your argument is to rob the other side of their power of speech when they go to criticise, you're not actually winning the argument.

Then again, people are stupid, so the ads might work.

*Has woe*

ETA: Do Coke still use sugar rather than HFCS in the UK?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

One of the ingredients (IIRC) is sulfuric acid.

Uh....no.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BJJGzbN3fg

I love how it depicts people who question the wisdom of ingesting high fructose corn syrup as bumbling idiots who don't know what they're talking about.

Yeah. If the only way you can win your argument is to rob the other side of their power of speech when they go to criticise, you're not actually winning the argument.

Then again, people are stupid, so the ads might work.

*Has woe*

I know, and it's like saying "It's made of CORN!" means "case closed," because corn is "natural." What a stupid argument. As hfcs is exactly the same as corn on the cob.

 

[SiorX]

^Well, no, it's not exactly the same. Obviously they jump up and down on it a bit first to make it squishy. But stop worrying, silly; it's made from 100% naturally-occurring atoms.

 

[Arrqh]

HFCS is poison.

HFCS is bad. The overuse of it in our food is bad. But calling it poison is unnecessarily alarmist and incorrect... and this actually harms the arguments against it.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Of course HFCS isn't healthy, but is sugar really any healthier?

 

[Amaris]

Not "refined" sugar, no.

 

[Shaytan]

Mhh sugar
If it's unhealthy it must be good
I'm browsing this site right now, I can't say something bad about sugar, impossible.

 

[John Picard]

One of the ingredients (IIRC) is sulfuric acid.

Uh....no.

Like I said, "IIRC". Instead, read the following:

A pilot study reported that some high-fructose corn syrup manufactured in the U.S. in 2005 contained trace amounts of mercury. The mercury appeared to come from sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid, two chemicals used in the manufacture of high-fructose corn syrup. The caustic soda used by HFCS may be produced in industrial chlorine chlor-alkali plants using the mercury cell Castner-Kellner process, and may contain traces of mercury if this specific process is utilized. Mercury concentrations in the samples testing positive ranged from 0.012 μg/g to 0.570 μg/g (micrograms per gram). Nine of the twenty samples tested did contain measurable amounts of mercury.[53]

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup

 

[gturner]

The bad thing about HFCS is that the fructose/glucose ratio is about the same as in apples, bananas, and grapes. I don't like fruit, or sweeteners that are chemically the same as fruit.

 

[Kestra]

HFCS is poison.

HFCS is bad. The overuse of it in our food is bad. But calling it poison is unnecessarily alarmist and incorrect... and this actually harms the arguments against it.

I actually don't know much about it. What's bad about it? I don't want the alarmist stuff, just basic facts so I can be more educated. I'm off to Google it myself, but I'd appreciate hearing the basics about HFCS.

 

[Count Zero]

The main problem is that it mainly consists of fructose, which is sweet but isn't processed in the body via insulin, so that you won't feel as sated as with normal sugar and therefore eat more.

 

[John Picard]

HFCS is poison.

HFCS is bad. The overuse of it in our food is bad. But calling it poison is unnecessarily alarmist and incorrect... and this actually harms the arguments against it.

I actually don't know much about it. What's bad about it? I don't want the alarmist stuff, just basic facts so I can be more educated. I'm off to Google it myself, but I'd appreciate hearing the basics about HFCS.

Rent a copy of King Corn. You will be shocked at what you learn.