You make me so glad that I quit HFCS. I came back from Japan, and just couldn't stand how unnaturally sweet EVERYTHING in America tasted. So, I decided to cut out HFCS and other disgusting sweeteners from my diet. And then I found it was in almost everything. (Seriously, soup? Crackers?) Ugh. :( I feel slightly grossed out for all the years in high school when I consumed so much of that crap, though. EWWWW.
Mhm, that is one of the things that piss me off about the commercials - 'fine to consume in moderation'. Yet moderation is nigh impossible because it is in everything.
Sigh. Molecules of fructose and glucose are not inherently evil. We consume them all the time. But the way these are produced (insanely complicated industrial processing and resulting pollutants, and the mercury contamination), the way they are presented to your digestive system (HFCS is composed of single molecules of glucose and fructose as opposed to dimers or chains in sugar or honey that take longer to digest. Thus you get much higher blood sugar spikes and problems for people with diabetes and so forth), and the fact that it is nearly unavoidable in american eating is just appalling.
If there's one thing I can be glad of it's that my diet has definitely gotten better (though whether or not I'm eating too big portions still remains to be seen, lol). I think HFCS really has become a 'in moderation' food for me -- as in, I eat it probably once or two a week a tops. And I feel pretty darn good about that.
I don't understand what's so difficult in using something like brown sugar, or unrefined sugar, or brown rice syrup, or honey, or any other million sweeteners out there that DON'T require non-food items to make. Trader Joe's does that with just about all its food and guess what? The prices are still reasonable for consumers. It's possible. They just don't want to change because they think it 'works.'
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I feel slightly grossed out for all the years in high school when I consumed so much of that crap, though. EWWWW.
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Sigh. Molecules of fructose and glucose are not inherently evil. We consume them all the time. But the way these are produced (insanely complicated industrial processing and resulting pollutants, and the mercury contamination), the way they are presented to your digestive system (HFCS is composed of single molecules of glucose and fructose as opposed to dimers or chains in sugar or honey that take longer to digest. Thus you get much higher blood sugar spikes and problems for people with diabetes and so forth), and the fact that it is nearly unavoidable in american eating is just appalling.
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If there's one thing I can be glad of it's that my diet has definitely gotten better (though whether or not I'm eating too big portions still remains to be seen, lol). I think HFCS really has become a 'in moderation' food for me -- as in, I eat it probably once or two a week a tops. And I feel pretty darn good about that.
I don't understand what's so difficult in using something like brown sugar, or unrefined sugar, or brown rice syrup, or honey, or any other million sweeteners out there that DON'T require non-food items to make. Trader Joe's does that with just about all its food and guess what? The prices are still reasonable for consumers. It's possible. They just don't want to change because they think it 'works.'
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