RE: Sugar by any other name..................

[Guest guest]

> While food mfrs view the development of hi-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as

> revolutionary, I consider it a crying shame. From soft drinks and energy

bars to

> baby foods and salad dressings, HFCS is seemingly everywhere in the

American

> food supply.

An interesting note to this -- I spent the weekend visiting friends in

Canada (less than 3 hours from my house), and my kids were with me. My

hostess asked them if they could tell a difference in the soda (7-Up and

Pepsi) from our soda at home, and my son said he thought it tasted " better, "

but he couldn't tell why. We looked at the ingredients, and there wasn't a

listing for HFCS -- they are still using good old fashioned sugar in their

soda on the other side of the border. Not that sugar is necessarily better,

but in light of the assertions of the article, that HCFS may well be used

differently by the body leading to more obesity, I thought it was

interesting.

~~ Lyn

[Guest guest]

--On Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:56 PM +0000

Graduate-OSSG wrote:

> But even then, we're

> not getting the nutrients we used to, bcuz of additives to animal feeds,

> and depletion of the soils. It's a sorry state of affairs. One starts to

> think the only way to REALLY be healthy is to grow everything one eats

I tried that and I have a brown thumb - I'd starve to death if I had to

grow my own food ) But I try to buy organic meats, produce and other

products as much as possible, try to buy locally as much as possible too,

even though they are more expensive. The more we support responsible

farming and manufacturing practices, the more it will become the " norm. "

:::puts soapbox back under desk for the moment:::

Sally

298 (BMI 49)/-139/159

Goal: 145-150ish

lap RNY 7/10/02

Dr. Quinlin/Pittsburgh

[Guest guest]

If you get real Coca-Cola during Passover, it will be marked kosher on

the box/can, and it is made with sugar instead of HFCS. It tastes so

much better that my Coke-drinking friends buy cases and cases of it when

it's out... The rumor is that that's the OLD Coke formula, that NEW Coke

was all about HFCS.

Z

Open RNY 09/17/01

http://www.ziobro.us/index.html

Re: Sugar by any other name..................

> While food mfrs view the development of hi-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)

> as revolutionary, I consider it a crying shame. From soft drinks and

> energy

bars to

> baby foods and salad dressings, HFCS is seemingly everywhere in the

American

> food supply.

An interesting note to this -- I spent the weekend visiting friends in

Canada (less than 3 hours from my house), and my kids were with me. My

hostess asked them if they could tell a difference in the soda (7-Up and

Pepsi) from our soda at home, and my son said he thought it tasted

" better, "

but he couldn't tell why. We looked at the ingredients, and there wasn't

a listing for HFCS -- they are still using good old fashioned sugar in

their soda on the other side of the border. Not that sugar is

necessarily better, but in light of the assertions of the article, that

HCFS may well be used differently by the body leading to more obesity, I

thought it was interesting.

~~ Lyn

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