Exellent Quote on High Fructose Corn Syrup

[mercury600]

Due to the desire to lower my chances and mood swings, maintain a sustainable pace everyday, and enjoy healthier living I've given up High Fructose Corn Syrup.

There is some debate at the moment with the FDA about HFCS being 'healthy' and 'natural'. I had this quote passed along to me in reference to this debate:

"If HFCS is natural because it's

Comments

[mercury600]

I do defy nature. And it's probably not the healthiest choice I've made. Unless you count happiness as part of healthiest. Buzzing around at high speed has released stress and raised my overall enjoyment of life. And for that reason it remains in my life.

HFCS on the other hand, doesn't have any benefit.

[towerdmc]

Or an Afri-Cola.. that stuff had cane and was WONDERFUL.

I wonder if the old glass-bottled dew had cane?

(sudden image in mind of Shaft as an old man, waving some sugarcane...)

[deincarnate]

[mercury600]

Skirts justified the side-saddle, not the plumbing.

And yes, you're right, the logic isn't really sound.

Fact is that being made from corn is not why the FDA wants to deem it natural. But rather because fructose does occur naturally. However, we don't seem to be designed to handle the volume of the stuff that is in the average diet.

Giving it up is a bit of an experiment.

[deincarnate]

[ghostrider72]

I'm with ya on that.