Comments on: It’s the real …HFCS?

By: ◊

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:45:56 +0000

I’ve basically stopped drinking soda altogether- it’s not a good thing to be putting in your body in a daily basis- basically liquid candy; empty calories…
A very poor substitute for water or tea.

Although I’ve never tried Mexican or Kosher Coke, I will sometimes still break my sugar-water moratorium for a bottle of Jarritos. It’s been my favorite soda since I first tried it, and I later realized it’s because it’s made with sugar. Anything with corn syrup in it just tastes… “syruppy” to me.

Hi Little Diamond–

I have rescued your comment from the Junk Comments file, where it landed because you didn’t type the code word ‘lowcarb’ in at the bottom. Any comments that don’t have ‘lowcarb’ typed in go directly to the Junk file. I’ve got to do that due to the huge amount of spam I get through the comment portal.

Thanks for commenting.

MRE

By: Michael R. Eades, M.D.

Michael R. Eades, M.D. — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:46:19 +0000

Interesting, indeed.

By: Elenor

Elenor — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:46:30 +0000

Interestingly, here in the (American) South — only during Passover — they release, in some stores, for a short while only, *sugar*-sweetened Coke — so people here take a RUN on the stores and buy them out…

By: RobD

RobD — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:34:17 +0000

I used to work for an Australian based company and we had many Aussies working with us and they all hated our soft drinks for the same reason. They would even bring cases of Aussie Coke back to share with there mates(along with there favorite Aussie beer)

By: Michael R. Eades, MD

Michael R. Eades, MD — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:25:51 +0000

Yes, I’ve seen it. And I plan to post on it in the near future. It’s not a website put together by a “group of concerned consumers, led by sugar cane and sugar beet farmers across America” as it says, but is the work of the PR genius Rick Masters of Qorvis Communications, an attack dog PR firm in Washington, DC hired by the sugar lobby to undermine McNeil, the makers of Splenda.

By: David LaCivita

David LaCivita — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:23:10 +0000

Have you seen the new website about Splenda?
http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com
They make it sound like sugar is naturaly occuring (like we shake a sugar cane plant and table sugar falls out)and healthy. Sadly, people will belive.

By: Esther Hoff

Esther Hoff — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:41:50 +0000

That’s a pretty interesting article. At least in Nogales we could walk across the line downtown to the corner store on the Mexican side and get our Cokes. There’s a very interesting four-part series of articles running in the New York Times right now about the diabetes epidemic in areas like East Harlem. One part addressed the role that diet plays and quoted a citizen as saying “Kids grow up fighting in the streets, so you want to raise big, strong kids. So you give them three pork chops, a nice tall glass of soda to make them strong.” I about fell over when I read that. A nice tall glass of soda makes you strong? In my day, that glass would have been filled with milk. (Not that milk doesn’t have it’s problems, too.) So you can imagine just how much HFCS these kids are ingesting from an early age.

I should clarify that I don’t think that fruit is all bad. I do love my blueberries and strawberries. However, I don’t think that the serving bowl-sized portions that my co-workers eat for lunch are as healthy as they think they are. They’re always hungry an hour later, scrounging for anything they can find to eat.

By: Michael R. Eades, MD

Michael R. Eades, MD — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:17:36 +0000

You’re right. If there is a food substance that qualifies as evil, it’s got to be high fructose corn syrup. It’s probably worse than trans fats.

In the old, old days, before I had my brain transplant, I used to actually recommend pure fructose as a substitute for sucrose because fructose doesn’t raise blood sugar levels as much. The reason it doesn’t (which I didn’t realize at the time) is because it is metabolized differently. It basically turns to fat as well a causing a host of other problems.

I’ve often had the same experience that you have with people telling me that fructose has to be good because it’s “fruit” sugar. It was discovered in fruit, that’s why it’s called fructose, not because there is a huge amount in fruit, althought there is more in some fruit than in others.

By: Michael R. Eades, MD

Michael R. Eades, MD — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:08:46 +0000

Many thanks for the link. I’ve inserted it into the post.

By: Esther Hoff

Esther Hoff — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:46:29 +0000

I grew up on the Mexican border in Arizona and can attest that Mexican coke is far better than the American stuff and that’s what we would drink (and this was before the American version was made with HFCS.) I haven’t had regular Coke in years but if I were going to, it would have to be the Mexican stuff. Funny, just the other day my sister and I were having a conversation about how much we prefered had Mexican coke as we thought it was less sweet. We also liked the little glass bottles.

As for HFCS, that stuff is just evil. I actually had one person try to tell me that it’s “good sugar, just like what’s in fruit!” Well, I don’t think fruit is all that healthy, either. It always amazes me that “experts” tell parents to give their children fruit juice instead of “sugary soda.” Heck, that’s just swapping one form of fructose for another.