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The biggest problem is that for people who think they are being reasonable with what they eat but aren't as diligent and eat a good share of packaged or canned foods, are eating HFCS in foods where there is no reason to think there would be a sweetener in it.
Often, it's lots of it.
The same with salt.
And I saw a blurb this week in Shape that said another study showed a 5% increase in glucose levels when consuming HFCS vs regular sugar.
There is a lot of evidence that HFCS is much worse for you than sugar, even though corn producers claim it is the same.
I try to avoid it as much a possible. I probably have HFCS about 1X a month. And regular sugar in pretty small amounts. Most days I have very limited amounts of added sugar. Around 2-3 teaspoons. About 1-2X a week, I'll have a little more (like a pastry or chocolate bar).
If you eat ripe fruit, berries, tomatoes, beets, carrots, you're eating sugar.
If you eat bread or anything else made with yeast, you're eating sugar (sugar the catalyst for yeast).
If you consume dairy of any kind, in any form, you're eating sugar. Even lactose-free dairy contains *some* lactose, which is milk-sugar.
Unless you're diabetic and insulin-dependent, you are probably consuming lots of sugar all the time, and don't even notice it because it doesn't have a label on the package that says "candy."
If you eat ripe fruit, berries, tomatoes, beets, carrots, you're eating sugar.
If you eat bread or anything else made with yeast, you're eating sugar (sugar the catalyst for yeast).
If you consume dairy of any kind, in any form, you're eating sugar. Even lactose-free dairy contains *some* lactose, which is milk-sugar.
Unless you're diabetic and insulin-dependent, you are probably consuming lots of sugar all the time, and don't even notice it because it doesn't have a label on the package that says "candy."
yup! Ppl need to educate themselves and read the labels on what they are eating.
There are all sorts of reasons that people are obese. The main two I see is 1) the fact that they are ignorant of what they put into their bodies and 2) not enough exercise.
1)Food producers know that the more salt and sugar they put into their product, the more people will buy it. Back when I was just starting to cook, I couldn't figure out what was in Chef Boy-ar-Dee that made so many people (not me - I thought it was gross) crave it - it was (and is) 60% sugar!!! Now, granted, I do throw a little - maybe a teaspoon - of sugar into my marinara sauces (I make about a half-gallon), but that is solely to cut the 'bite' of the tomatoes; and a little cinnamon does the same thing.
Most breadings you see for meats are not bad in and of themselves, but the high salt content makes them far, far worse. The "meat spices" - rubs, additives, and liquids like hickory 'smoke' flavor, Worcestershire, Heinz 57 - are extremely high in salt. Even foods advertised as 'dietetic' are often high in salt, as are sodas.
As for #2 - TV, the computers, the sedentary jobs many people hold -all combine to make folks less prone to exercise. Rarely do you see dad come home from work and go out to throw a few fast ones to the kids, or even play in backyard or community pool - more often than not, he and Mom are working late, come home either carrying fast food for supper or rushing around trying to get supper on for the kids, then plop down in front of the TV or computer to 'relax'. Weekends are laundry, yard mowing, and/or shopping/entertainment excursions. How many folks take their weekends and go camping at a nearby state park, or go fishing, or even hunting? Everything is structured to keep people moving as little as possible; darting/driving between here and there, worn out and ready to come home and 'veg out' all over again - and the less active they are, the more tired (and overweight) they become. The fact that, while they are doing all of this running around, they are ingesting fast "pre-chewed foods" loaded with salt and sugar that provides little to no nutrient values, only makes them more tired and less able to do physical things. It becomes a vicious and self-perpetuating cycle.
Have to agree there FC Granny... we dont move around as much as we used to... I remember going dancing twice a week and two nights ice skating. all that stopped after having children , and we just dont realize how , even slowly the weight creeps on.... Another thing is cooking for families... we tend to let them choose what they want to eat instead of just putting one meal down to the table. the way I was brought up... IM watching what I eat just now as had put on a full stone in a year just by nibbling at biscuits and sweets.. then saw myself in a photo and got a fright.. As I said I dont know much at all about this corn syrup, but Ive never saw so many young teenage girls so fat here in the UK, when I was a teenager its wanst an issue, I dont remember them talking about diets and food intake back then.
Have to agree there FC Granny... we dont move around as much as we used to... I remember going dancing twice a week and two nights ice skating. all that stopped after having children , and we just dont realize how , even slowly the weight creeps on.... Another thing is cooking for families... we tend to let them choose what they want to eat instead of just putting one meal down to the table. the way I was brought up... IM watching what I eat just now as had put on a full stone in a year just by nibbling at biscuits and sweets.. then saw myself in a photo and got a fright.. As I said I dont know much at all about this corn syrup, but Ive never saw so many young teenage girls so fat here in the UK, when I was a teenager its wanst an issue, I dont remember them talking about diets and food intake back then.
when I was a kid we didn't have computers, or video games, or dvds or even cable to keep us locked up inside. if you were inside and dared said you were bored, you were given a chore to do. Most of our time was spent outside either on our bikes or walking. We didn't sit around and do nothing!
I'm so thankful that my dh and i decided early on that our kids wouldn't be sitting in front of a tv or computer all day either....they don't own and have never owned a video game and there used to be only ONE c omputer in the house. Now, each one has a laptop for school, but none of them play video games or veg out in front of the tv for hours on end. ( and none of them have weight issues)
Another study compared the effects of a diet with plain water, or water containing 13% glucose, or sucrose, or fructose, or high fructose corn syrup on the properties of rats' bones: Bone mineral density and mineral content, and bone strength, and mineral balance. The largest differences were between animals drinking the glucose and the fructose solutions. The rats getting the glucose had reduced phosphorus in their bones, and more calcium in their urine, than the rats that got fructose. "The results suggested that glucose rather than fructose exerted more deleterious effects on mineral balance and bone" (Tsanzi, et al., 2008).
When the idea of "glycemic index" was being popularized by dietitians, it was already known that starch, consisting of chains of glucose molecules, had a much higher index than fructose and sucrose. The more rapid appearance of glucose in the blood stimulates more insulin, and insulin stimulates fat synthesis, when there is more glucose than can be oxidized immediately. If starch or glucose is eaten at the same time as polyunsaturated fats, which inhibit its oxidation, it will produce more fat. Many animal experiments show this, even when they are intending to show the dangers of fructose and sucrose.
Bread is made -with- sugar. That's how you get the yeast to foam. So if you are eating bread, you are eating sugar. Because there's no way to take the sugar out of the bread, once you've mixed it with the yeast to make the dough rise.
" Although yeast makes its own food by converting the starch in flour into sugar, a little “fast-food fix” of pure sugar right at the start gives it the quick energy it needs to work. (If you need to avoid sugar, just leave it out; your bread will be just fine, although you may find it doesn’t brown as well)." https://www.kingarthurflour.com/tips...gredients.html
" Although yeast makes its own food by converting the starch in flour into sugar, a little “fast-food fix” of pure sugar right at the start gives it the quick energy it needs to work. (If you need to avoid sugar, just leave it out; your bread will be just fine, although you may find it doesn’t brown as well)." https://www.kingarthurflour.com/tips...gredients.html
Point being, no matter whether you let the yeast make sugar out of flour starch, or you add some in, bread -does- contain sugar. And this thread is about corn syrup, and sugar.
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