Exercise is futile against a high fructose diet... and everything has fructose

[Lunican]

Long but interesting video. If you eat food I would recommend watching this and then evaluating what you eat.

High fructose corn syrup is an omnipresent component of modern day food and it is a toxin that causes obesity, hypertension, gout, insulin resistance, leptin resistance, and diabetes.

Apparently the stuff is so toxic and fattening that it is impossible to consume it and exercise your way out of being fat.

http://www.youtube.com/v/dBnniua6-oM&hl=en_US&fs=1&

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine]

[Burn to Shine]

I can't get the video from here but I've seen and read enough to know where you are coming from.  It's disgusting what we've become accustomed to putting in our bodies.  Really, it's hard to think about and still be one that does eat food or at least what we've grown to know as "food". 

Here are a couple more - "food for thought". 

http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php

http://www.foodincmovie.com/

[Dog Walker]

The reason that there is so much high fructose corn syrup in everything is that sugar in the US is twice as expensive as anywhere else in the world.  Years ago the Fanjul family, who control most of the sugar production in this country, used political contributions to get very high tariffs placed on imported sugar to protect their profits from their South Florida sugar plantations.  Can you say Everglades destruction?

As a result of the high prices, food and soda producers turned to high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener.  Coke has never tasted the same since.  Now both the sugar (cane and beet) and the corn industries, ADM and Bunge, lobby hard to keep this tariff in place.

Our bodies metabolize sucrose (sugar) and fructose (aka high fructose corn syrup) very differently and we are now discovering that it has health consequences.  Watch the corn industry fight this the same way the tobacco industry fought about cigarettes.  Look out for the "not proven" and false science press releases backed by hidden, industry-backed "public interest" organizations.

[Lunican]

You are right Dog Walker... check out http://www.sweetsurprise.com/.

They even have commercials "debunking" any problems with HFCS.

[DeadGirlsDontDance]

As a result of the high prices, food and soda producers turned to high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener.  Coke has never tasted the same since. 

That's why I almost never drink soda, it doesn't taste good to me anymore. I guess my taste buds have more common sense than I give them credit for.

[CS Foltz]

I can only speak for myself.........I don't drink soda's, eat at fast food places and do try to watch what I eat!

[Lunican]

[Midway ®]

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public"
    - H. L. Mencken

Robert Lustig, MD video...300,000 views

I like turtles zombie kid video....17,000,000 views

The nitwits win 56 to 1.

Wait a minute....1,000,000 of those views might have been me.

[ChriswUfGator]

The reason that there is so much high fructose corn syrup in everything is that sugar in the US is twice as expensive as anywhere else in the world.  Years ago the Fanjul family, who control most of the sugar production in this country, used political contributions to get very high tariffs placed on imported sugar to protect their profits from their South Florida sugar plantations.  Can you say Everglades destruction?

As a result of the high prices, food and soda producers turned to high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener.  Coke has never tasted the same since.  Now both the sugar (cane and beet) and the corn industries, ADM and Bunge, lobby hard to keep this tariff in place.

Our bodies metabolize sucrose (sugar) and fructose (aka high fructose corn syrup) very differently and we are now discovering that it has health consequences.  Watch the corn industry fight this the same way the tobacco industry fought about cigarettes.  Look out for the "not proven" and false science press releases backed by hidden, industry-backed "public interest" organizations.

If you thought that was bad, what do you think about the State's grand idea of buying their holdings from them in the Everglades, making a huge downpayment, and then when the economy turned and the State couldn't finance the deal and had to back out, they kept the land and the money! LMAO...

[JC]

Daily consumption of fructose -- the sugar commonly found in soft drinks -- significantly increased hepatic fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a study of patients enrolled in a clinical research network.

An adjusted analysis showed high fructose consumption was associated with reduced hepatic steatosis but increased fibrosis stage (P<0.05). In older patients, daily fructose consumption increased the risk of hepatic inflammation and hepatocyte ballooning.

"These results identify a readily modifiable environmental risk factor that may ameliorate disease progression in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)," Manal Abdelmalek, MD, of Duke University, and co-authors reported online in Hepatology.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Gastroenterology/GeneralHepatology/19825

Thank goodness ingredients are written on the label, Praise Jesus, oh no wait the FDA has something to do with that. 

P.S.

I wonder if food labels were being proposed today if they would be called a "government take over of the food industry" or "a socialist plot to kill grandma"?

[finehoe]

For years the federal government has subsidized corn to the tune of several billion dollars a year. Much of America's heartland is covered by endless swaths of corn, often genetically modified because of the huge cash incentives offered to farmers who grow it. As a result, corn-based ingredients are present in a great majority of processed food products. Ingredients like maltodextrin, corn starch (typically modified in some way), corn syrup, and HFCS can be found in virtually every processed food.

HFCS was invented in the 1970s when scientists discovered a way to convert corn glucose into fructose, causing it to be substantially sweeter. Interestingly around the same time, the U.S. government began imposing tariffs on imported sugar and implementing sugar quotas on the amount of domestic sugar that could be grown. As a result, producers were able to obtain this new corn sweetener much more cheaply than they could sugar and they began to use it to sweeten their products.

http://www.naturalnews.com/027606_corn_subsidies_HFCS.html

[Captain Zissou]

After watching this video I have really tried to monitor what I consume.  It's amazing how many things have HFCS in them.

[redglittercoffin]

P.S.

I wonder if food labels were being proposed today if they would be called a "government take over of the food industry" or "a socialist plot to kill grandma"?

Actually, more food labels have recently been up for debate -- and contrary to your simple-minded jab at simple-mindedness, they are actually being backed by the conglomerates as food labels provide another barrier to entry for start-ups and small businesses. 

[Tripoli1711]

Isnt it because we hold the Presidential primaries in Iowa first every election, and the candidates have to make egregious concessions to the corn industry as a result?

Methinks you are certainly on to something..........

There was an excellent episode of "Point of View" on PBS up here recently about the commercial food industry, the fact that the federal government makes it so that corn can be purchased at prices below the cost of production, and the resulting omnipresence of corn in everything we eat.  Essentially when you look at an ingredient list all the stuff that you don't know what it is..... about 95% of the time that is Corn.  Corn is in EVERYTHING both food and non-food.  According to the program corn-feeding beef makes e-coli much more prevalent than grass-feeding.. but its so much cheaper to buy corn and corn feed that beef producers don't care.  It was really an eye-opening program, I recommend looking for it on PBS down there.

It also had a segment regarding obesity.  Essentially through unintended consequences, the federal government's policies have resulted in a green bell pepper costing the same amount as a 1/4 lb double cheeseburger at burger king... 99 cents.  When you barely have enough money to eat each day which of those two are you going to spend your dollar on?

[Tripoli1711]

It was called "Food, Inc."  apparently it was Oscar nominated as a documentary.