HFCs? Sugar? Don't don it...

Miss_Sissy

Have you ever wondered why some of these food we have a hard time eating is so hard to get rid of?

I have been doing some research and here is what I found.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is 'said' to be organic and good for you by some people. It's a lie. Nothing Processed is good for us. HFCs is part fructose, part glucose, but about 5 - 15% is made up of SUCROSE and OTHER things. That makes this a processed item, which strips out a lot of NATURAL nutrients, then add other stuff, that is put in a lot of our foods.
Skinny Cow
Yoplait
Special K bars
Ketchup
Pickle Relish
Syrup
Cereal
Those Rice Cakes
Peanut Butter
Bread

And that is naming just a few... Sucrose is 100% pure sugar. C & H Pure Cane Sugar is Pure. One problem with that is how it became white. In order to make it white, the cane comes out brown to yellow, then they bleach it stripping out stuff to make it white. I'm kinda baffled as to why they don't have anything labeled on their packaging.
http://www.mcvitamins.com/high-fructose-corn-syrup.htm
http://www.eatingwell.com/nutrition_health/nutrition_news_information/is_high_fructose_corn_syrup_bad_for_you
http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup

Agave Syrup is another thing that people have been mistaken about. It is NOT organic nor healthy for you.
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/issue-13/is-agave-nectar-healthy.php

This link will explain a bit about the different types of sugars.
http://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/blog/healthy-sugar-alternatives.php

I've given a few links to thinks. View them, search them. I'm one of them people who was skinny in the 70's. then suddenly, eating the same things I did my whole life, in the late 80's early 90's, after having kids, I couldn't lose the weight. I wasn't eating any different than I did 10 years prior.

Now I read what I buy and get nothing with HFCs, with exercise, I'm losing that weight. A friend of mine has a high functioning autistic child and when she couldn't figure out why he had been acting strange, she looked at labels. Now she gives him no HFCs and he doesn't do the things he was doing on HFCs.

As far as C & H Pure cane sugar, I trust them. I have been using them for 45 years. But now that I know about the bleaching process, I'm leery. I have used Splenda, but now I use Stevia.

Just a thought...... I know there will be some of you that agree with me, that's great--- tell your friends and family, maybe we can take this country back. For those of you who don't agree with me, that's ok too. You can tell your friends and family too. But if you don't agree, I'd appreciate no backlashes, harshness, rudeness, and so on. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything.

Thanks.

Angellore

I do agree that HFCS isn't the best thing in the world, far from it, but I do think that even the bad stuff is ok in moderation. Opinion is constantly changing, after all not long ago eggs were 'evil' you could only eat 2 or 3 a week or your cholesterol would go through the roof. It's now been discovered that while eggs contain cholesterol they don't give us high cholesterol. I'm sure there are a whole lot of other foods that have gone from being bad to good (and the other way too!). I am in the UK and HFCS isn't used here with the prequesncy it is in the UK, but I have seen it listed in a couple of items (interestingly one of those is the BBQ sauce on the tables in Harvester). I think that if we were overly worried about food we wouldn't eat at all. While I believe that 'clean' eating is good for you, no doubt, personally I like to limit the bad stuff too. It tastes good to me! Plus, even the clean stuff can kill you, look at the E-Coli outbreak in Germany for example.

jenilla1

...maybe we can take this country back.

:huh:

chevy88grl

If you take the time to read labels - you can find MANY foods without HFCS in it. I don't eat it because it makes me very bloated and gives me a headache, so when I shop I look for items without it. There are a lot of items out there (skinny cow heavenly crisp bars are one... and Hunt's ketchup) that don't have it. You have to READ.

4theking

I love my hfcs and my junkfood.