Corn Syrup Conspiracy

[annuin]

*Reads label of her potato salad in disgust*

Why is there fucking high fructose corn syrup or corn syrup in nearly every fucking food product in this country?

It's not a huge surprise this nation battles obesity like it does when there's corn syrup or sugar in everything, even savoury products that shouldn't have it (bread, pasta sauce... and not just a touch either, to the point where it actually tastes sweet too *shudder*).

Comments

[arianadii.livejournal.com]

It really is annoying. I am diabetic and even if I wasn't I would not want high fructose corn syrup in everything I eat. :/

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I can only begin to imagine your frustrations when food shopping. Shopping for the vegans in my circle of friends when we have a party or gettogether is frustrating enough, and it's made me so aware of how hard it is for people with restricted diets to buy food products that don't contain one or another ingredient they can't eat.

It also doesn't surprise me that something like Atkins is supposedly so effective, when you consider that sugar is a carb, and they cut carbs... if the average person cut out most of their sugars, considering it's in nearly everything, then you'd automatically loose at least some weight.

[arianadii.livejournal.com]

Shopping used to be extremely frusting for me. The grocery store looked like a big well organized mine field. I am both diabetic and celiac (extreme wheat allergy) and there is either sugar or wheat in almost everything. The high fructose corn syrup is the worst kind of sugar for diabetics. That stuff is bad news.

Now on a high raw food diet it's much easier and I don't even need my medication if I stick to it.

Cutting carbs is effective for weight loss and diabetes for another reason. All carbs must be turned to simple sugar in the body before they can be digested. Bread and pasta require even higher production of insulin for that purpose resulting in a supression of glycogen. It causes hormonal imbalance and slows the metabolism.

When I cut these foods I lost a ton of weight and normalized my blood sugar.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Do you have any resources for the raw food diet?

Anything that's lower in sugars and the like, and will help in the quest to lower the unhealthy food intake and lose a bit of that winter padding is good.

[vinlander71.livejournal.com]

There seems to be some controversy on the raw food diets. Raw food people seem to think that cooked food is poisonous, but there's no supportive research.

Neither vgnwtch nor I could find any substantial evidence one way or the other, though, eating more raw fruit and veg in your diet is generally a good thing anyway.

Getting rid of refined sugar in one's diet makes a HUGE difference. Heck, it gave vgnwtch a stronger immune system!

[vinlander71.livejournal.com]

You might be better off at a health food store. Stuff there I have seen labelled as "gluten-free".

[arianadii.livejournal.com]

Yes. I usually shop at Whole Foods. I eat mostly fresh produce now anyway but the ingredients on the packages at Whole Foods are not as evil. :)