Is corn making us fat?

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  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Corn is making us fat. End of story. Do a tiny bit of research on the subject and it's overwhelmingly obvious. Look at corn use and weight gain in the 60's and 70's when corn syrups started replacing natural sugar. Look at the weight gain of the nation since "Low fat, high sugar" became the big weight loss craze. (Funny that all the low fat programs always came with, "Exercise required, active healthy lifestyle to lose weight", etc etc. heh I lost over 150lbs sitting on my *kitten* eating bacon and steak.) In closing, denying it is like denying the evolution theory.
    I'd say too much food and too little movement is making us fat.

    A number of civilizations owe their survival to corn. It is not in and of itself a bad thing - far from it.

    There are SO many studies out there that disprove this notion. The amount of food we eat has not really increased that much at all for the average american. Neither has the amount of exercise we get. Aside from that, exercise is not all that important in weight loss (not talking about toning, bulking, etc.). Some say 10%, but i'd give it 5% at best. What has changed, is our diets. What we eat, not how much of it we eat.

    How does CORN specifically make us fat any more than a calorific surplus of anything? Now, there may be a prevalence of foodstuff that contain corn syrup that are being eaten to make up that calorific surplus, but why is corn syrup specifically the culprit as opposed to eating more than you burn in general?

    Please cite these studies.
  • kenazfehu
    kenazfehu Posts: 1,188 Member
    You are looking at different studies than I am, obviously. Portion sizes have increased by 30-70% since the 1970s and activity has decreased proportionately (Google it!). Kids used to be outside riding their bicycles and running around playing with their friends when I was growing up. Now they're inside playing video games, facebooking, texting ....
  • Nich0le
    Nich0le Posts: 2,906 Member
    Oh, and for the record corn didn't make me fat, it actually makes me sick, I'm pretty sure my haagen dazs habit helped get me to my worst, oh and coffees made of half and half instead of milk when I worked at starbucks, I made myself fat by losing control!
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    lol
  • hamncheese67
    hamncheese67 Posts: 1,715 Member
    Watch King Corn the documentary. Its just crazy

    http://www.kingcorn.net/the-film/trailer/

    Here's a summary. The giant ape falls off the Empire State Building. Beauty killed the beast.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Corn is making us fat. End of story. Do a tiny bit of research on the subject and it's overwhelmingly obvious. Look at corn use and weight gain in the 60's and 70's when corn syrups started replacing natural sugar. Look at the weight gain of the nation since "Low fat, high sugar" became the big weight loss craze. (Funny that all the low fat programs always came with, "Exercise required, active healthy lifestyle to lose weight", etc etc. heh I lost over 150lbs sitting on my *kitten* eating bacon and steak.) In closing, denying it is like denying the evolution theory.
    I'd say too much food and too little movement is making us fat.

    A number of civilizations owe their survival to corn. It is not in and of itself a bad thing - far from it.

    There are SO many studies out there that disprove this notion. The amount of food we eat has not really increased that much at all for the average american. Neither has the amount of exercise we get. Aside from that, exercise is not all that important in weight loss (not talking about toning, bulking, etc.). Some say 10%, but i'd give it 5% at best. What has changed, is our diets. What we eat, not how much of it we eat.

    How does CORN specifically make us fat any more than a calorific surplus of anything? Now, there may be a prevalence of foodstuff that contain corn syrup that are being eaten to make up that calorific surplus, but why is corn syrup specifically the culprit as opposed to eating more than you burn in general?

    Please cite these studies.

    The reason it is corn syrup is that it is a cheap ingredient. If other sugars were easier to buy and transport guess what would be the culprit of our calorie surplus by the OPs logic? Whatever is used in volume....
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Oh, and for the record corn didn't make me fat, it actually makes me sick, I'm pretty sure my haagen dazs habit helped get me to my worst, oh and coffees made of half and half instead of milk when I worked at starbucks, I made myself fat by losing control!

    Guess what was in that Haagen Dazs....
    They've gotten better but I'm not sure all their ice creams are HFCs free...
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    Corn is making us fat. End of story. Do a tiny bit of research on the subject and it's overwhelmingly obvious. Look at corn use and weight gain in the 60's and 70's when corn syrups started replacing natural sugar. Look at the weight gain of the nation since "Low fat, high sugar" became the big weight loss craze. (Funny that all the low fat programs always came with, "Exercise required, active healthy lifestyle to lose weight", etc etc. heh I lost over 150lbs sitting on my *kitten* eating bacon and steak.) In closing, denying it is like denying the evolution theory.
    I'd say too much food and too little movement is making us fat.

    A number of civilizations owe their survival to corn. It is not in and of itself a bad thing - far from it.

    There are SO many studies out there that disprove this notion. The amount of food we eat has not really increased that much at all for the average american. Neither has the amount of exercise we get. Aside from that, exercise is not all that important in weight loss (not talking about toning, bulking, etc.). Some say 10%, but i'd give it 5% at best. What has changed, is our diets. What we eat, not how much of it we eat.

    How does CORN specifically make us fat any more than a calorific surplus of anything? Now, there may be a prevalence of foodstuff that contain corn syrup that are being eaten to make up that calorific surplus, but why is corn syrup specifically the culprit as opposed to eating more than you burn in general?

    Please cite these studies.

    The reason it is corn syrup is that it is a cheap ingredient. If other sugars were easier to buy and transport guess what would be the culprit of our calorie surplus by the OPs logic? Whatever is used in volume....

    Well said. It's not because corn syrup is worse than any other sugar; it's not. However, it's much cheaper to manufacture. Sales of soda and other sugary foods skyrocketed after it was put on the market. There are a lot of scientific papers that cite the introduction of corn syrup as a major contributor to obesity; here is one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2932668/
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Corn is making us fat. End of story. Do a tiny bit of research on the subject and it's overwhelmingly obvious. Look at corn use and weight gain in the 60's and 70's when corn syrups started replacing natural sugar. Look at the weight gain of the nation since "Low fat, high sugar" became the big weight loss craze. (Funny that all the low fat programs always came with, "Exercise required, active healthy lifestyle to lose weight", etc etc. heh I lost over 150lbs sitting on my *kitten* eating bacon and steak.) In closing, denying it is like denying the evolution theory.
    I'd say too much food and too little movement is making us fat.

    A number of civilizations owe their survival to corn. It is not in and of itself a bad thing - far from it.

    There are SO many studies out there that disprove this notion. The amount of food we eat has not really increased that much at all for the average american. Neither has the amount of exercise we get. Aside from that, exercise is not all that important in weight loss (not talking about toning, bulking, etc.). Some say 10%, but i'd give it 5% at best. What has changed, is our diets. What we eat, not how much of it we eat.

    How does CORN specifically make us fat any more than a calorific surplus of anything? Now, there may be a prevalence of foodstuff that contain corn syrup that are being eaten to make up that calorific surplus, but why is corn syrup specifically the culprit as opposed to eating more than you burn in general?

    Please cite these studies.

    The reason it is corn syrup is that it is a cheap ingredient. If other sugars were easier to buy and transport guess what would be the culprit of our calorie surplus by the OPs logic? Whatever is used in volume....

    Well said. It's not because corn syrup is worse than any other sugar; it's not. However, it's much cheaper to manufacture. Sales of soda and other sugary foods skyrocketed after it was put on the market. There are a lot of scientific papers that cite the introduction of corn syrup as a major contributor to obesity; here is one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2932668/

    This does not actually make that point from my reading of it. It also shows that no ONE thing can be blamed. I agree with the comment re volume and what would be blamed - which was what I was alluding to regarding its prevalence.

    Extract:

    "HFCS consumption (but not necessarily fructose per se) has increased substantially in the last several decades and has been speculated to be a contributor to the obesity epidemic (Bray et al 2004; Welsh et al 2005). Yet, a critical review (Forshee et al., 2007) and a recent position paper from the American Medical Association concluded “Because the composition of HFCS and sucrose are so similar, particularly on absorption by the body, it appears unlikely that HFCS contributes more to obesity or other conditions than sucrose” (American Medical Association, 2008).

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