Wow

[small_chicken]

This is perhaps the penultimate reason as to why HFCS is bad for you. Not that I was ever under any delusion that it was good for people, but he lays out, in painstaking biochemical detail, how it all works. It was originally linked to in this NYT article, which is, in itself worth reading.

Happily for us, this coincides with my boyfriend's

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[breakableheart]

In the EU there isn't the widescale replacement of sugar with HFCS. I believe in the EU it is called isoglucose or glucose-fructose syrup. Not sure how that translates to Dutch but I'm pretty sure you don't have to look in every nook and cranny for it there like you do in the US.

[small_chicken]

Hehe, yeah, I realized that pretty quickly. I couldn't remember if I'd remembered it correctly, that HFCS wasn't as widely used in Europe, and after seeing the video, I really wanted to be sure :-)

[rainbow]

corn(maize) growing is very heavily subsidised in the usa, which makes it the cheapest and most popular sweetener in the food industry

[small_chicken]

OMG...I had no idea just how "everywhere" corn is...yeesh. Europe is (fortunately?) behind the times and everything, as far as I can tell, is still made with whole ingredients, even down to the pet food (don't ask me exactly what constitutes "meat byproducts", but at least it's not corn meal),

[dr_clownshoes]

That's an excellent article, and very scary when you consider how easy it is to overconsume sugars of all kinds without even realising that you're doing it. I've been trying to reduce my sugar consumption, and it's very difficult, especially here in America where sugar is added in various forms to all kinds of things that you never even consider until you learn the terminology and start carefully scrutinising labels. Then, too, eating in restaurants is a whole other problem. It's really quite depressing to think about the scale of the problem and how difficult it would be to change.

Incidentally, I don't mean to be a jerk by mentioning this, but "penultimate" means "second to last in a series," and not "the emphasised ultimate."