Whats with all the HATE towrads corn syrup?

If you have never seen the documentaries called, "Food Nation" and "King Corn" I would highly recommend them. It may just change the way you eat forever!

Watch the documentary food inc. It changed the way I eat.

sugar is NOT evil. Every cell in your body needs sugar to function.

Just woundering why so many people refuse to buy products that contain corn syrup
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http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/high-fructose-corn-syrup/AN01588

The kernals of truth that is in the sensationalized fear is that :

1) Corn Syrup is more difficult for the body to process. Like white grains, they have been very processed and the body tends to have an easier time processing food in its closest to natural state.

2) Corn Syrup is in far more foods than most people would think off hand. Many processed foods even of a savory nature have high fructose corn syrup in them.

Just like anything else though, kept in moderation, your body can cope with it (I mean hell, kept in moderation, your body could deal with cocaine-- I don't think highly processed sugar is going to make you balloon up instantaneously). But because it is "sneakily" present in many foods, it can be difficult to keep in moderation. This (combined with the documentaries and sensationalized media coverage/word of mouth with little or no research) leads to a panic where people refuse to eat it-- kind of like eggs and the cholesterol scare, or the super push for whole grains.

Some of the hysteria about HFCS is way out of proportion.

However, if you are trying to lose weight and continue to eat things that are sweeter than can be found in nature, you're going to run into difficulty. You're always going to have unstable blood sugars and feel hungry and deprived. Taming your sweet tooth helps.

Also, you aren't going to find HFCS unless you're eating something highly processsed. Again, that's going to hinder your weight loss.

I agree with those who think it is over hyped and misunderstood. The holier than thou "I don't eat anything PROCESSED" people make me laugh. Im not saying its ok to eat pounds of HFCS but we can eat just about anything in moderation.

I used to agree with you -- especially about the "holier than thou" attitude, but changed my mind after doing my own research. This lecture at University California San Francisco is very educational on the subject.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sugar+the+bitter+truth&aq=0

What I find funny that even in their own commercials to promote the use of HFCS they even say "okay in moderation".

The problem is HFCS is in most packaged food. Seeing how lots of people eat pre-packaged and fast foods, people are consuming more then what the Corn Growers recomened. Not their problem of course, people can buy or not buy.

I mainly eat fresh, make my own meal from scratch and when I buy bread or anything packaged I do look for products w/o. But I don't feel bad if I do eat something with it in there since its not very often.

I think the one of the underlying reasons for the hysteria is that people feel hoodwinked about it. These are probably people that either never read labels and understood wth they were eating- or just hear about it as the new bad ingredient and jump on the bandwagon etc. Personally- I am seriously wondering why the mainstream public is JUST now lately going 'oh my gosh what is this stuff?". Maybe it's because I used to have a lot of vegan friends in high school, idk, but I was always always aware that this stuff lurked in everything. From a strictly sort of subjective viewpoint that has nothing to do with nutrition: cane sugar just tastes better .
If I have a choice between two items, one containing HFCS and the other not, I will always pick the non HFCS one. As for what science does or does not have to say about the harmful effects long term..I'll avoid whenever possible and read about the findings twenty years from now :flowerforyou:

P.S. I will never use the corn industries own recommendations for what is 'healthy' about its own product.

I have always been leery of the HFCS and chemical make ups of several foods, however this video says it all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Science doesn't lie....I especially have always liked the bio-chemistry portion.

Draw your own conclusions, my PERSONAL thinking is this- why play with the health of your body- you only get one.

I REFUSE to eat & HATE corn syrup! :-P