Comments on: Straight Talk About High-Fructose Corn Syrup: What it is and What it Ain’t. – Research Review

By: Windy Daley

Windy Daley — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:34:36 +0000

The straight talk is: Most Americans are slaves of the fast food industry–an industry drowning in empty calories–including high fructose corn syrup. One way to start releasing addictions to fast/processed foods is to give up high fructose corn syrup–and everything it is in. Therefore, almost all fast food restaurants will be out of the personal food sphere. Unfortunately, most school children are addicted to fast food with school meals. Children should bring healthy, nutritious real foods to school, and be taught about health and the foods that encourage health.

I’ve worked as a researcher–and can tell you from personal experience–that much of research can be tainted by the underlying financial support involved. Results can also be manipulated by how statistics are presented.

Anyone remember the times when research on tobacco was being tossed around–research that said it was harmless–research that said if was harmful? Personal facts were: It had addictive qualities–and the people who avoided tobacco were healthier, although living with a smoker did bring health down. A similar experience is happening now with high fructose corn syrup and fast/processed foods.

The simplest of facts: high fructose corn syrup is not a “natural” part of corn–not even in the unnatural genetically altered corn from which HFCS is synthesized.

Many people who have pushed this synthetic ingredient (high fructose corn syrup) out of their diets have awakened a new awareness of healthy living–more respect for self and the environment.. They begin to feel better, have more energy, and don’t get sick as often–if ever.

Why wait for rat research? Try giving up high fructose corn syrup–regardless of how many others tell you it’s “just fine in moderation,” and test it personally for yourself. Give up the highly processed/fast foods it is in and experiment the miracle of feeling better–and especially the freedom from corporate fast food slavery.

And we need to love our children enough to feed them real foods.

By: Archie

Archie — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:08:14 +0000

I’m a bit late to the party – but a great article Lyle. Keep up the amazing work.

As for the above poster – Mercola speaks a lot of crap, that is better left unread. Keep reading Lyle’s, Alan’s, Martin Berkham’s texts for instance and you’ll get a much less Sugar coated and biased opinions…

By: Barrett

Barrett — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:29:21 +0000

Mercola seemingly reliable unbiased articles has a big one on fructose. Side note maybe in that article or a related one he had expericmented with a high fruit diet and ran his triglycerides over 3,000 yes 3,000 was stated not 300.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/01/03/high-fructose-corn-syrup-even-worse-than-weve-been-told.aspx

By: Ryuu

Ryuu — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:27:24 +0000

Always strait to the point. That’s definitely one of your charms.

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:58:32 +0000

You’re not a rat.

By: Ryuu

Ryuu — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:02:21 +0000

Hey Lyle. I was wondering if you could give your input on this report of a recent Princton study? http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

Their whole “point” is feeding rats (how relevant) water sweetened with HFCS, and the other group water sweetened with sucrose, with apparent “findings” being that the rats on the HFCS gained fat (becoming obese) while the sucrose rats didn’t (supposively levels of HFCS were “well below those found in sodas”). They also reported apparent signs of “metabolic syndrome” and other possible metabolic problems as a result of the HFCS in the rats.

The kicker line is “Our findings lend support to the theory that the excessive consumption of high-fructose corn syrup found in many beverages may be an important factor in the obesity epidemic”

I’d appreciate it if you could give some insight into this. Just to make things clear, I’m not an anti-HFCS person (mostly after educating myself by reading your articles, which are always great, by the way). This actually came about when I was quoting your article’s study.

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:27:11 +0000

The pont of Lustig’s rant: I am a simpleton who needs to find a singular blame for all the problems of humanity. For lack of anything better and because I am too dumb to see that all of this is massively multi-factorial, I’m going to blame high-fructose corn syrup. And do it by horridly misrepresenting research and cherry picking my data in an attempt to live up to the sterling example set by Gary Taubes.

Did I miss the point or did you?

By: mike

mike — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:31:58 +0000

Aragon, doesn’t take apart the argument and in his rebuttal seems to miss the whole point of the lecture he is rebutting. The metabolic effects of excess sugar and fructose in particular are fairly clear. If they were only consumed moderately and intermittently, (like alcohol) the effects would minimal perhaps even beneficial, But the problem is that sugar, especially HFCS has replaced fat in many processed foods and we are seeing the results of long term chronic exposure to these.

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:09:42 +0000

Alan Aragon takes apart some of the high-fructose corn syrup hysteria on his blog

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/

enjoy.

By: lylemcd

lylemcd — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:54:15 +0000

No, fructose is not bad. EXCESS fructose can be bad and since HFCS is found in a type of food (liquids) that tend to be very easy to overconsume, HFCS CAN provide EXCESS fructose. Which can be bad. There is a key word that makes the difference.