my twitter status
You are going to die. And you know what’s going to kill you? High fructose corn syrup. Oh, sure, the powerful corn syrup lobby would have you think otherwise. Fuckers. They would have you believe that HFCS is all sunshine and light and popsicles and bug juice and not deadly poison that would give you diabetes, inflate you to the size of a house, or melt your face. It’s not what you give to impudent urchins you want to off of or a particularly whiney boyfriend that questions your love at being offered dessert. It’s just an all-natural, wholesome substitute for honey.
Ok, ok. That’s not entirely true. It’s about as “natural” as Micheal Jackson’s face. But really, it’s not worse than sucrose or any other sugar. But it’s not better for you. It’s still sugar. Sugar made from corn. The price of which has skyrocketed thanks to corn-based ethanol production. And that means the cost of HFCS-containing foods, as well as that of other corn-based foods is going up, too. Oh no! He Who Walks Behind the Rows has won!
I think they need to pick up Tony Sinclair in their ads. “Always in moderation!” as he would say. It’s hard to do in moderation when it’s in pop, bread, pizza, frozen foods, ketchup, etc. You’ll never escape it.
That was a good science article. But at the same time you can find quite a few others that say the two monosaccharides DO digest differently then the standard sugary sucrose molecule. Whether they trigger “I’m full” signals or not, those were ridiculous commercials.
That’s the thing about science. You can always find research that supports both sides. It’s just a matter of judging what is more plausible (hence the cigarette commercial). And of course, lobbies will always cherrypick what’s in their best interest, no matter how silly it may end up being. It happens in evolutionary biology all the time.