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Sugar, the nutritional pariah that dentists and dietitians have long reviled, is enjoying a second act, dressed up as a natural, healthful ingredient.
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The turnaround comes after three decades during which high-fructose corn syrup had been gaining on sugar in the American diet. Consumption of the two finally drew even in 2003, according to the Department of Agriculture. Recently, though, the trend has reversed. Per capita, American adults ate about 44 pounds of sugar in 2007, compared with about 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup.
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“Sugar was the old devil, and high-fructose corn syrup is the new devil,” said Marcia Mogelonsky, a senior analyst at Mintel International, a market-research company.
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I'm all for it. Our rising obesity rates and corn syrup in our foods go hand in hand. And if you can find "Jone's Sodas", try them, they taste like soft drinks used to. I'm not a bog soft drink person, but they harken back to my youth.
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After all the federal grants for "research" have been used up, in the end, we find that the natural products, not the chemically altered, artificial substitutes, are always best. The key with sugar, as with anything else, is moderation!
mmmmm high-fructose corn syrup droooooool
ever notice that Bart, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and me all have the same middle initial?
coincidence?? I think not
Uhmmm... 'J' as in Jimbo?
Well, blow me down.
Popeye's middle initial is "T", not "J".
HFCS is a killer. The shit is bad news and you can't escape it. I'll bet it's even in canned spinach now too.
"the use of corn syrup and rising obesity rates go hand-in-hand"
Ad hoc, ergo propter hoc.
I could do that with a lot of things:
"The use of computers and rising obesity rates go hand-in-hand"
"The use of SUV's and rising obesity rates go hand-in-hand"
"The rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising obesity rates go hand-in-hand"
"The rise in radio-waves of all forms on our atmosphere and rising obesity rates go hand-in-hand"
There is nothing peer-reviewed or otherwise, with any sound basis in any kind of recognized science, that lends any shred of credibility that high fructose corn syrup, in and of itself, is a problem.
"The rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising obesity rates go hand-in-hand"
Ergo; Global warming causes you to be fat! Now that explains Al Gore's fascination/fixation with global warming!
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