Originally posted by The Sword

If people still think that soda with real sugar makes you fat, I'm still very active after losing 100lbs just by limiting my intake of junk and excessive calories.

A couple Citrucel (methylcellulose) capsules taken with sugar sweetened beverages would help to lower glycemic index and provide helpful fiber. So if someone feels the need to grab a big fountain pop for the road, taking Citrucel capsules with it might help a little.

I've never noticed this ingredient much in products in the UK, although i have picked up a bottle of sauce that said Glucose-Fructose Syrup in the ingredients (which i assumed is the same thing or something similar?). It's not something i've noticed much in other products i buy, unless it's called something else. I very rarely buy anything these days with added sugar/sweeteners, other than some syrup for my porridge and pancakes every now and again and of course the odd chocolate bar, which i've never seen HFCS in the ingredient list.

Although, i have a smallish supermarket in my town, it has a shelf full of imported American products. Mostly, Sweet and Savoury snacks, Jellys, and other Sweet Spreads, like Marshmellow and Jelly and other such concoctions, Chocolate/Candy Bars and Sodas. I told my Partner about HFCS and to prove a point, we both read every single label on that shelf. In every sweet product it had High Fructose Corn Syrup in the ingredients list.

Crystal Light
Mio

Best thing since sliced bread:



I was ecstatic when I saw this on the shelves!
I loves my panckes n waffles :-)

I check the ingredients on everything new I buy, HFCS? I stay clear of.

Originally posted by Lil Drummerboy
dont touch the stuff,.
but,. intelligence does run in my family.. jus sayin.
I lernt that a long time ago

That's a coincidence, because brave men run in my family.
(an old bob hope (twisted pervert that he was) joke.)

I personally like things without HFCS better than ones with it. A good place to go is Whole Foods. It's a all natural supermarket and I've never found an item there with HFCS, and they also tell you where they get all their fruits and veggies (most local farms if possible). We've cut most all HFCS out of our diets and to our surprise, our doctor said that's awesome, but also suggested we go through a "detox" system to flush the impurities out of your body.

Originally posted by skitzspiricy
I've never noticed this ingredient much in products in the UK

Me neither in Germany. I don't think it gets much use in Europe, were too traditional and we can be thankful for our strict food laws. At least in Germany it has to be clearly marked if HFCS is used in a product. That and because since a couple of years there are a lot of articles about the dangers of HFCS the companies won't use it.
I guess if say Coca Cola started to use it, they will immediately lose a lot of money, because people will stop buying it. It's the same as with the fake cheese, a couple of years the TV was flooded with reports about "cheese analogue" and where it's used. For example a documentary named Pizza Hut as user of fake cheese, they denied it but lost money in the long run (because of course people wouldn't want to use fake products), so they suddenly decided to use real cheese to save their asses.
(Remember people: We have the power and can force changes!)

And HFCS tastes really nasty, i've been to the USA several times and the first few times just drank Cola because back then i didn't knew about it. I just wondered about that weird taste. A couple of years ago some american friends visited us and went crazy about how awesome Coca Cola tastes here, they even took some bottles home

The problem isn't HFCS sugar, it's all sugar. On the molecular level, HFCS and cane sugar are pretty much the same thing, just made differently. The problem with HFCS is not the product itself, it's the fact that the stuff is so cheap and readily available, that they put it in everything. EVERYTHING.

This is why obesity in America is the worst in the world. It's because we grow so much corn here. More than anywhere else in the world. HFCS is made from corn, duh. Other countries are skinny because they don't put HFCS in everything because they don't have corn.

Go to the grocery store. Read the ingredients on everything. You will find sugar of some sort (usually HFCS but sometimes other sweeteners, sometimes even natural sugar) on 99.9% of what you find in the grocery store. Even things you would think shouldn't be sweet or have sugar. Pizza? Yep, has sugar in it. Meat? Yeah, sugar. Bread? Yep, sugar. Cheese? Yeah, sugar. If it's processed, it has sugar.

They (the food companies) put sugar in everything to make you buy more of it. Sugar is addicting. It makes everything taste just a wee-bit better, making you want to buy more of it. So they make more money. In the past, it wasn't feasible for them to put sugar in everything, as natural sugar is expensive. But HFCS is cheap, so now they can put it in everything at very little cost. Soda is the worst, in terms of sugar. Soda is bitter. It's like seltzer water. Same thing. People wouldn't be drinking it if they didn't load it up with sugar. Drink soda more than once a month, and I guarantee you that you will one day have diabetes (which BTW was never a problem up until they started putting sugar in everything.) It's estimated now that 1 in 5 children born after the year 2000 will end up with diabetes. That's pretty alarming. But no one cares.



Humans were not made to consume so much sugar. If we ever have a problem with something and we can't figure it out, we should just look to mother nature. Mother nature didn't want us to have lots of sugar. That's why she made it hard for us to get. Honey, a natural sugar had bees protecting it. They would sting us. Certain high-sugar berries would have thorns on the stems. Even sugar cane, has a rigid shell that is hard for primitive humans to break open.



We are consuming 300x the amount of sugar on average every day than we were 70 years ago. And 1000x the amount of sugar every day that nature intended. And we wonder why we have problems like obesity and diabetes? Heh.


If you are overweight, try to make an honest effort to cut out sugar from your life. I guarantee you will lose weight quickly and be much healthier. It's tough, since they put it in everything. Even cutting out sugar and creamer from your coffee every morning and drinking it black (you WILL acquire the taste for it if you drink it enough) helps. Vegetables are a good start. And I mean real vegetables, not the packaged frozen stuff that has sugar added. That's why vegetarian diets really work, BTW. Not because you are eating vegetables, but because you aren't consuming as much sugar. And drink only filtered water, please. If you want to eat meat, buy a cow from a local farmer and have it slaughtered and packaged, and freeze it in a freezer. It's actually pretty cheap to do. Locally here where I live I can buy a cow (roughly 500-700 lbs of meat depending on size) for about $400-$500. Split it with a friend or family member and get half of a cow each for $200 bucks. It beats paying $25 for a small t-bone steak at the grocery store or $9 for a small package of hamburger meat.

Originally posted by berkeleygal
Crystal Light
Mio

Best thing since sliced bread:

I was ecstatic when I saw this on the shelves!
I loves my panckes n waffles :-)

I check the ingredients on everything new I buy, HFCS? I stay clear of.

No...THIS is the best thing since sliced bread.


You just can't do better than the real stuff. And it's so much healthier for you. I'm lucky though because I have family that makes it and I get it for free. You can get it here in SC but it's much more expensive. It's around $55 a gallon in New England and it's price fixed up there, but in the stores here, it's around $8 for a half pint.

HFCS is evil stuff as far as I'm concerned and I do my best to avoid it but it's very hard. My son will only eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches so I switched from grape jelly to an all-natural 100% fruit jam. I've been making my own peanut butter, too, with peanuts and coconut oil. You haven't tasted how good peanut butter can be until you have the real deal. The fake stuff in the jar has so many unnecessary ingredients.

Originally posted by rickymouse
A spoonful of sugar isn't going to hurt anyone. Ten spoons full of sugar is a different stories. 15 calories compared to 150 calories is a big difference. They put too much sugar in soft drinks. I don't care for things sweet like that.

But this aint sugar at all. It should be a clue that americans are the most obese in at least the western world. Here we consume just as much crap and is on top in world when it comes to soda consumption, but yet we are not obese. Diabetes and obesity shot up just as they replaced sugar with high fructose corn syrup.

And you also seem to forget the fact that not everyone has a choice, as they put this # in nearly everything these days.

No doubt HFCS is bad news. And, eliminating it from your diet is possible but it is VERY difficult AND expensive.

Do a little research on a type of fast called the Daniel Fast. No caffeine, no sugar, no HFCS, no meat, eliminate overly processed foods and chemicals/preservatives, etc.

Do it for 21 days.

Not easy but a good way to detox from all the crap out there. After the 2nd week you feel fantastic.