High Fructose Corn Syrup Can Make You Dumb??

DaltheJigsaw

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/sugar-dumb-us-scientists-warn-190918006.html

I believe it! Can anyone deny it?

AMH

I beleive it, but then again I am unable to process fructose in any form, including fresh fruit. a couple dozen grapes make me sick, so just a little HFCS is truly bad.

So the last time i accidentally got HFCS was in whipped cream and a couple times over 2 days. I not only had my usual digestive issues but I also found that my body ached and my brain moved slow. I really was not up to speed in many ways. I feel a LOT better with no HFCS and almost no sugar and actually very limited refined carbs. It is not just body but mind and sleep and energy, etc.

vinlyn

Duh, I dunno. :buck:

DaltheJigsaw

Duh, I dunno. :buck:

Haha! It's great to have "proof." But I suppose all we need is our own experiences?

Dakini

High fructose corn syrup can make you fat and ill. That's all you need to know.

Floating_Abu

Yeah try not to buy anything with it - yo can check the ingredients yo

Invincible_summer

I drink soft drinks that most likely have HFCS in them - in moderation. I don't feel that I've become any "dumber" (the article is down so I can't read how they managed to figure this out), nor have I gained a lot of weight or become more ill.

In fact, I feel like I'm in some of the best shape I've been in awhile.

Floating_Abu

'Artificial stimulants' can always make one feel better. So does fat and sugar. i.e. the feeling does not always equate to good health, which is why discipline (and knowledge/education) is often required for good health overall.

Invincible_summer

'Artificial stimulants' can always make one feel better. So does fat and sugar. i.e. the feeling does not always equate to good health, which is why discipline (and knowledge/education) is often required for good health overall.

Yes, obviously education/knowledge are important. However, I think moderation and exercise are just as important, if not more.

And @Floating_Abu, I hope you were not directing your comment about artificial stimulants at me.

Floating_Abu

Hi IC

Actually I was responding to your statement about feeling good. But perhaps you meant as an overall lifestyle thing. Personally I think soft drinks are one of the worst things but that's because I see them as chemical sugar drinks only. I have my own vices though.
And I agree moderation and exercise are just as important.

Abu

vinlyn

I used to drink about 6 16 ounce sodas a day (usually 2 diet cokes and 4 diet root beers). Since retiring and needing to keep far more hydrated out here in semi-arid Colorado, and because of a heart issue where dehydration brings on and exacerbates mild tachycardia, I have reduced soda intake to 1 per day at dinner, and I drinks LOTS of water now.

Floating_Abu

Good on you, v
I think the problem with flavored drinks (I drink tea all day which is not perfect either) is that I then find water bland and unattractive.
But I think it's good for you and I will try to recultivate that habit again.

Abu

vinlyn

Yes Abu, you're right...water seemed so bland as I drank more and more sodas. Now that I have gone in a better direction, water seems so much more refreshing!

Of course, living in Thailand for a couple of years with the heat and humidity I drank more fluids, and disliked that I had to buy water (rather than drink from the tap). Here in Colorado I buy bottled water because I really dislike the taste of the local water, plus, my area has the highest rate of kidney stones in the nation, which is probably due to minerals in the tap water.

Floating_Abu

Yeah the good news is that taste buds can readjust if we let it!

Interesting what you say about Colarado. In my family we used to always boil our water before drinking it. I don't even know why but it seems to be a family tradition

We do take a lot of granted though I think (speak for myself) I heard of towns where people have to walk kms (miles) to get some clean drinking water, and it can be a commodity in itself so

Best wishes,
Abu

Dakini

I drink soft drinks that most likely have HFCS in them - in moderation..

I can relate to good soft drinks. They can be a hard habit to break. And I don't think the recent switch by "health food" manufacturers to soft drinks with sugar or cane juice is any better. If you're young, your system can handle the sugar (in whatever form). It's only later, sooner or later, that insulin resistance develops.

Invincible_summer

Hi IC

Actually I was responding to your statement about feeling good. But perhaps you meant as an overall lifestyle thing. Personally I think soft drinks are one of the worst things but that's because I see them as chemical sugar drinks only. I have my own vices though.
And I agree moderation and exercise are just as important.

Abu

Yes, I meant as an overall lifestyle. I run 5k every few days at least, try to commute by bike whenever I can, eat balanced meals, do a bunch of calisthenics every other day, not eating meat and few animal products, etc etc. By "moderation," I'm talking not even one drink/day - more along the lines of one/week or one/2 weeks.

I drink soft drinks that most likely have HFCS in them - in moderation..

I can relate to good soft drinks. They can be a hard habit to break. And I don't think the recent switch by "health food" manufacturers to soft drinks with sugar or cane juice is any better. If you're young, your system can handle the sugar (in whatever form). It's only later, sooner or later, that insulin resistance develops.

I'm honestly not even too concerned about having to "break" the habit, considering I don't really eat many sugary foods in the first place. I worry more about sodium bc I'm a savoury foods junkie.

Mountains

FWIW gang, many grocery stores now carry soft drinks made with cane sugar. I can't help but believe (and there's clinical research indicating this) that cane sugar is much less bad for you, in moderation, than HFCS. And I **know** it's better for most people than **any** kind of artificial sweetener. In fact, there's actually some pretty compelling preliminary (and ongoing) research that seems to show that the massive intake of artificial sweeteners may actually be exacerbating the obesity and DM TII epidemics. They trick the body into thinking it's consuming massive quantities of sugars, stimulating insulin production indirectly, and contributing to insulin resistance. It's an extremely complex interrelationship, much of which isn't clearly understood.

But I think the bottom line is, the closer anything you put in your mouth is to the way mother nature made it, the better off you are.

The per-capita consumption of HFCS in the USA in 1964 was zero. It didn't exist. The industrial process for creating it didn't exist until around that time. Since then, and especially since the mid-1970s, per-capita consumption has skyrocketed to something like 200 pounds per year. In other words, there are 300,000,000 guinea pigs in the united states involved in a huge experiment with a "food" ingredient that the human body had no experience of 45 years ago. And today we consume it in massive quantities, thinking (or not thinking in this case) that because it's made from corn it must be okay.

Okay for somebody else, but not for me...