Comments on: The High Fructose Corn Syrup Controversy

By: War against High-Fructose Corn Syrup – Paleo Diet Core | Paleo Village

War against High-Fructose Corn Syrup – Paleo Diet Core | Paleo Village — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:51:26 +0000

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By: gpence

gpence — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:19:22 +0000

Michael, HFCS is (I believe) made from dent corn, which is used for human food consumption as corn meal, corn starch, etc. It is edible, but it is not table corn — which you probably will see sold as "sweet corn". Dent corn contains more starch and less sugar whereas sweet corn has a higher sugar content and lower starch content…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:56:05 +0000

HFCS is much more problematic that just the sugar part of it. Fructose can only be metabolized in the liver where it is then stored. In essence it is nearly the same as the way alcohol is metabolized and stored in the liver. There are many problems that can arise from this, one being a fatty liver. The researcher that has a video on YouTube is Dr. Robert Lustig if anyone wants to watch. 90 minutes, but worth the watch.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:09:00 +0000

How about this if it hasn't already been discussed. Just another form of food containing poison! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:16:12 +0000

Have you ever consumed the corn in which high fructose corn syrup is derived from? From my understanding, its not editable. Why consume food that at its base state, is not editable unless we do some fantastic chemical processes in order for us to make it more editable?

By: Mark W

Mark W — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:57:02 +0000

Interesting article. I have a personal experience to share about HFCS.

Here in the UK, it's not actually used in many products yet, thankfully. Sadly I do have a bit of a sweet tooth and on a hot day, when you've been out on a 40-mile bike ride, a can of full-fat freezing cold 'famous brown' soft drink can hit the spot. In the UK they still make the major soft drinks with sugar, rather than HFCS.

A couple of years ago I holidayed in the USA with my wife and two kids, going to Walt Disney World. I, for two days, drank plenty of the sticky sweet stuff – although no more than I have done so in the past in the UK, and on the third day, I had another full-fat soft drink around lunchtime and felt really ill. Lethargic, and dull headache. I had a read of the ingredients as I was sure it was the drink as it tasted really different to the same beverage in the UK, and noticed it contained HFCS. Not knowing much about it, but knowing how our body has to change fructose to make it into a useable sugar for metabolic processing, I wondered if that was my problem. Some sort of HFCS intolerance.

As a test, I switched from Full Fat to Diet drinks, and I felt much better. The lethargy passed and I was OK for the rest of the week as long as I stuck to Diet drinks. So at the beginning of week two, I did an experiment. I again on the monday consumed normal full fat drinks. By the mid-afternoon I had the same lethargy – much like a sugar low, but much more pronounced. The headache was there along with the general malaise. As soon as I switched back to Diet drinks, I felt fine, and never had a repeat of the problem for the whole vacation.

When I got back to the UK I did a test – went to a theme park in the UK, drank bottled full-fat (sugar-based) soft drinks – and felt fine.

So I personally know I'm HFCS intolerant. And anecodotal evidence after discussing it with some other people in the theme parks seemed to show it wasn't just me that would suffer. In fact, one woman told me that in San Diego, they would drive into Mexico just to buy coca-cola that was made with Cane Sugar instead of HFCS as it affected her so much.

By: Donna M.

Donna M. — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:12:47 +0000

Go to Google and search on HFCS +mercury, and read the articles on mercury contamination of high fructose corn syrup. Then search on articles about brominated vegetable oil, which is an ingredient in Mountain Dew and some flavors of Gatorade, but is banned in many countries. I am old enough to remember when diet soft drinks contained cyclamates, which have since been banned. I have questions about the safety of aspartame too. I'd rather err on the side of caution and avoid these products.