Comments on: Dumb “Health” Idea of the Week

By: luagha

luagha — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:02:23 +0000

And even if HCFS was only a little cheaper than sugar companies might use it. But it is five to ten times cheaper than sugar depending on the year, making it near to fiscally impossible to use it.

By: Jarhead

Jarhead — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:23:27 +0000

Screw those Food Nazi Czar bastards. I am going to eat and drink what I like. We cannot allow these socialists to take over every facet of our lives. They must be exposed and defeated.

What’s next? A lot of Kentucky sour mash is made with corn. Are they going to put an extra tax on my Bourbon because it uses corn sugars?

By: DS_ROCKS!

DS_ROCKS! — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:47:28 +0000

He looks like a closeted gay. His licking the girl doesn’t fool me.

By: There is NO Santa Claus

There is NO Santa Claus — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:34:25 +0000

“But the marketplace has decided:”

Deb: I have some bad news for you. The marketplace has NOT decided anything. The U.S. Government has decided.

The rest of the world uses sugar as a sweetener. The US uses corn or HFCS as we like to call it. Ever wonder why?

Ever wonder why sugar has been the sweetener of choice for centuries but the U.S. uses HFCS?

It’s called “CORN SUBSIDIES”. Here in America, we have “price supports” for sugar and “subsidies” for corn; all courtesy of Uncle Sam. Because of government regulations, taxes and subsidies, HFCS is a cheaper sweetener than sugar. One can only guess what would actually happen if a free market were operational.

By: MK750

MK750 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:19:38 +0000

Splenda was great until it gave me MS like symptoms.

By: MK750

MK750 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:18:02 +0000

even moreso, carbohydrates. they are HUNGRY so they fill up on cheap stuff like pasta. The low fat deception has made it worse. Higher fat foods DO NOT make body fat but give a feeling of satiety. Poor people have higher rates of diabetes because of this carb packing which causes them to become insulin resistant. Add the HCFS that’s in all those packaged foods sorrow01 talks about and you create a diabetic on his/her way to alzheimers due to the lower fat in the brain.
it’s too complicated to go into here but I’m not advocating fried foods and stuff like that but good fats like in dairy and vegetable oils eaten uncooked.

Consider that high cholesterol is a manufactured “disease.”

By: MK750

MK750 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:11:09 +0000

For Ashkenazi (eastern european) Jews you are correct. Sephardic (arab/non-eastern european) ones can eat corn and other things Ashkenazi can’t. For us the only forbidden things are wheat, spelt, rye, barley and oats. We even get hummous!

By: Christopher Hayes

Christopher Hayes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:08:22 +0000

I have to say – you find the funniest pictures…

…and of course this idea is stupid. Thanks for spotlighting, I hadn’t heard of it…

By: MK750

MK750 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:08:13 +0000

I agree, I tried to avoid processed foods in the US but HFCS is in everything. I came to Israel and without doing a thing other than not eating foods containing it, I dropped 30 lbs in one year. I needed to. I had NEVER been fat but with menopause and the increase of this hidden ingredient in everything, I was a blob.
Debbie I suggest you become a regular reader of mercola.com. Some of the stuff is idiotic but most is very right on.

By: Bob Porrazzo

Bob Porrazzo — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:49:43 +0000

David Zinczenko–YOU NEED A LESSON IN CONSUMER FREEDOM!

http://consumerfreedom.com/