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  • Your argument is that is something is unnatural it is bad for you. I don't think that this is the case for many, many substances. For example, if I take a vitamin D pill in the morning, I can't see that having any adverse health effects. I'll concede that HFCS is probably the leading cause of the metabolic syndrome in America, but please, show me some biochemistry which can justify your claim that all unnatural substances are "bad" for you.

  • this video makes me want a soda

  • You know what I like about this guy? He's obvious against some foods out there, and he's mostly right about them (IMO). But he also says you can have a little HFCS here and there -- not gonna kill you. It's the OVERCONSUMPTION of such foods (or really ANY foods) that becomes a major health problem. Proves to me he's thinking, and not just a health religionist.

  • @thumper300z I think people have gone WAAAY overboard with the healthy stuff. I like the rule 'only eat what your Grandmother would recognize' (maybe that doesn't apply to the 35 year old grandmas out there :)). If you want to eat some Malt-O-Meal (which IS processed), go ahead. But don't eat liquid suckers all the time. You want a soda? Do it like grandma did -- those came in the from of 8 oz. glass bottles, and maybe once a month for a middle-class family. Moderation rocks.

  • Thank you very much!

  • HEY CHECK OUT [ STOVEPIPE JOHNSON ] HE WILL TEACH YOU !

  • Don't eat processed foods, problem solved.

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  • THANK YOU! I am glad there are still people out in the world like you that doesn't buy it! HFCS = BAD, all sugar is bad! Eat grains, fruits, and other things for sugar! Thank you (subscribed)!

  • Contact the President of the CRA and share your thoughts regarding HFCS

    Audrae Erickson

    President

    Corn Refiners Association

    1701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

    Washington, DC 20006-5806

    Phone: 202-331-1634

    Fax: 202-331-2054

    pressinquiry@corn(.)org

  • Firearms are safe as long as you operate them moderately... =P

  • Firearms are safe as long as you operate them responsibly.

  • I stopped drinking soda a few years ago and I've drank various things in its place, water, gatorade, stuff like that. I eventually settled on a mix of water, some milk, and frozen juice concentrate (not the best source, I know). I mostly drink orange juice.

    While many people are feeding their risk for diabetes, I am keeping my immune system healthy and fighting off diseases. For example, orange juice (+ other antioxidants) help ward off cancer.

    Think about that when you reach for a soda.

  • Make sure your drinking real orange juice like if you juiced it. not the processed crap in the bottle in the grocery store...

  • I haven't drank soda for like 3 years now! LOL I stay away from juices too even Orange Juice! I drink water and I even stay away from milk.

  • I got the same as you Booger, although sometimes some milk won't hurt me, recently i started drinking Aquarius when jogging as well.

    The thing is that i got a low glacier layer on my teeth (its what the dentist told me) so when i eat sweets like..candy or cola whatever, my teeth get super sensitive and things hurt when i chew hard things. In my opinion it only keeps me away from eating those things!

    Guess some bad things can have good side effects huh =)

  • good vid i stopped drinking pop for one month and i lost 15 pounds so stop drinking that shit because thats what it is

  • I cut out HFCS after the Oprah W. show & I lost 60 pounds or more. Yes just by cutting this one thing out of my diet.Serious HFCS is shit & it makes people eat more because it blocks a natural that tells your body when its full.

  • I cut out all sugared drinks for many months. I only used stevia to sweeten the occasional drink. Lost 7 pounds like magic. Not saying the stevia caused me to lose weight, but it did curb my sweet tooth. When I did try drinking something with any form of sugar, it was horrible.

  • Sure makes my poop taste sweet tho .

  • I know you're trying to be funny, but if your body doesn't digest a sugar, like some folks who lack the gene responsible for the creation of sucrase, you'll have terrible diarrhea and gas as the bacteria beyond your upper intestine go to work on the undigested sugars.

  • ok at least part of what this guy said is wrong. fructose is a aldose sugar named by IUPAC nomenclature and theres no way you can chemically modify it without it being called something else. What he probably mean is that they process the corn and extract the fructose. not the same thing.

    i agree wholeheartedly with this guy's dietary recommendations, he shouldn't be seen as an authority when his degree is in something as stupid as chiropractics. they don't deserve the title of doctors imo

  • I agree. They tend to fall for and promote a lot of health quackery.

  • Thank you.

    My mother is a registered dietitian who has been fighting to reform the public school system in Kentucky for the past 10 years in order to get tougher restrictions on the "foods" sold.

    It's been a tough fight because the foods that include simple sugars, enriched flour, etc. are cheaper to produce and store, and thus gain a larger revenue for the school. Currently, the schools are well funded by these junk foods, but the children's bodies are being poisoned in the process.

  • They don't serve possum and squirrel in the Kentucky school system?

  • A few more facts would have made this more impressive Like when you say "do you know how much sugar in a beverage?" Why not look it up and say how much. Thanks tho.

  • awesome, awesome vid. thx for posting!!!

  • As a matter of fact, you can use fat for energy. It's called Ketosis.

  • Your brain can't use fat for energy. Only your muscles can. Your brain requires glucose (from the breakdown of carbohydrates) for energy.

  • I don't think so, fat can be metabolized to ketone bodies and this can be used by the brain and heart

  • The brain will use ketone bodies a source of energy during periods of starvation. But that's generally not the usual source of energy for the brain. A typical, healthy person shouldn't assume that their fat is being used as an energy source, and thus cut all carbohydrates from their diet. Your brain needs them. :)

  • That's sort of the standard response from a biochem textbook but if you look at the recent literature, it actually shows that the heart runs more efficiently on ketone bodies

  • Well, that would make sense, if that's the emergency response to starvation. The process has to be more efficient for the brain to get energy fast enough when engough glucose isn't present.

  • yeah the body is amazingly adaptable that way and besides if using ketone bodies isn't sustainably health wise, the Eskimos are in real trouble. their diet has practically no carbohydrates or plant matter

  • The statement early in the video that sucrose does not occur in nature is false. The crystallized sugar that we buy is purified and crystallized, but also directly extracted from plants. The sugar in sugar cane is sucrose. many fruits also contain sucrose. Some fruits contain monosaccharides (especially frustose) but sucrose occurs naturally as well. The sugar in an orange is mostly sucrose. But that's a minor quibble. The rest of the video is quite accurate.

  • Your point is purely semantics.

    That's like saying that cocaine is a "natural" substance because refined from a natural source.

    Yes, the substance occurs in nature in an unrefined form. So, it's natural in that respects.

    but...

    No, It does not occur in a refined form. Man has to refine it. So it's a "man made" or "unnatural" substance in that respects.

    There is no such thing as refined, bleached crystallized sugar that naturally occurs without intervention from man.

  • If we switch out corn syrup for sucrose, do you think there would be a change for the better in the overall health of Americans, and why?

  • the word "natural:" has 38 definitions in the Random House Dictionary.

    Your using definition 1

    "existing in or formed by nature "

    He is using definition 25

    "not treated, tanned, refined, etc.; in its original or raw state"

  • I'm basing this strictly off of what my biochemistry professor has said, but fats and sugars ARE good for you.. in moderation. You NEED them to survive. If you stopped eating carbohydrates (sugars), your brain would literally shut off. Your brain can't use fat as a source of energy. HFCS is made with a genetically engineered enzyme, and unlike real sugar, it is not broken down by the enzyme sucrase, so the digestion of HFCS is not controlled like the breakdown of sugar is. Thus, obesity.

  • Explain how uptake of the mono saccharides fructose and glucose are "controlled" once they've been liberated from sucrose. We know that sucrose is largely broken down in the upper small intestine into it's component sugars; glucose and fructose. That glucose and fructose is chemically identical to that found in HFCS55, invert sugar, and honey among others. With that known, the burden is proving fructose from HFCS is taken up faster than fructose from sucrose, and there's no evidence for that.

  • I suppose you're right. That's something that I haven't studied too extensively, so I'll have to look into that. On a separate note, I have heard that diets high in fructose can lead to type II diabetes. But I believe this theory is still under investigation. It could simply be that the US population consumes more sugars than other countries on a per capita basis, and diets high in sugar are linked with obesity, which entails diabetes.

  • But the main point is that sucrose and HFCS55 have nearly identical amounts of fructose. The burden is proving that the fructose in HFCS55 is worse than the fructose in sucrose. The best argument I've seen for that is unbound fructose entering the blood stream faster than the fructose from sucrose, but there's no citation for that.

  • so, safe but not good for you. just like most things in life. like.. .fats, sugars, caffeine all safe but.... not exactly good for you.

  • And did you know that when you are diagnosed with diabetes, doctors prescribe drugs that actually promote weight gain, and yet they tell you that you need to lose weight. Honestly, no one cares about your individual health, in fact, they are willing to induce a sickness in order to exploit you and increase their own income. This is all about money. Don't ever let a doctor talk you into a prescription before you are fully informed of it's side effects.

  • Dr. Vincent why don't you explain this on a basic level of science this would help all these people understand it better. I have done the research and you are absolutely right. But i know that you understand what happens chemically to make high fructose corn syrup. Explain it in basic terms!

  • So the companys producing make money, the government makes money, the doctors make money, the drug companies make money and we keep getting fatter as a nation. HFCS is only the tip of the iceberg of the problems with our diets

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  • it totally matters, this video is about high-fructose corn syrup and there is none of that in Hite beer.

  • that commercial kills me

  • Just so you know at 1:55 the girl has a can of Hite in her mouth, Hite is a beer in Korea not a soda as suggested by the context of this video.

  • HFCS is no worse for you than regular table sugar, and the fructose and glucose in honey is no different than the fructose and glucose in HFCS. Basically this dude is saying that fructose and glucose made from corn is somehow different from the fructose and glucose in honey. No he didn't say that directly, but he referred to honey as natural and HFCS as not therefore it's worse. That's not a scientific argument in fact it's a false argument.

  • They are quite different.

    HFCS is a monosaccharide sugar is a disaccharide.

    This is important due to the body must use an enzyme (sucrase) to use sugar. Thus it can actualy be naturaly limited by the body. This is a big differance.

    HFCS is already in the ~broken down form, thus it acts quite differently in the body.

    Candy used to make kids sick- in excess. They would use up all their sucrase and then the sugar would not be digested correctly. Now kids can and will eat HFCS all day.

  • The fructose and glucose in honey and inverted sugar are exactly the same as those in HFCS. They are not combined into a monosaccharide to make sucrose.

    In mammals, sucrose is very readily digested in the stomach into its component sugars, by acidic hydrolysis. This step is performed by a glycoside hydrolase, which catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose to the monosaccharides glucose and fructose.

  • You keep saying that HFCS is no different than normal sugar (sucrose).

    Yet you go into long (and not very accurate) discussions about how they are different.

    They are quite different and thus they behave quite differently in the body.

    Disaccharides must be broken down before they can be absorbed, thus they are obviously different.

  • "You keep saying that HFCS is no different than normal sugar (sucrose)."

    Copy and paste where I said that, oh yea, you can't, because I didn't. I commented that honey and invert sugar are the same as HFCS. Rather than keep making untrue statements, try some higher level debate tactics. Copy and paste what you think is incorrect, and post what the truth is afterward. I can back up the facts in my comments. At the very least, do some googeing, and fact check me. Look up honey and invert sugar.

  • What I did comment is that your body will have no problem converting sucrose sugar to glucose and fructose. If it didn't, sucrose would be detected in large amounts in blood, urine, or feces, but it's not. Consumption of HFCS and sucrose will have the same effect on blood sugar.

  • You'll also get bad diarrhea and gas if you don't digest sugars. Some people are born without the ability to digest sucrose sugar, because they don't have the gene that initiates the production of the enzyme sucrase.

  • Granulated sugar is 99.9% pure sucrose, which means that it has equal ratio of fructose to glucose. The most commonly used HFCS, 42 and 55, have about equal ratio of fructose to glucose, with minor differences. HFCS has simply replaced sucrose as a sweetener. Therefore, despite the changes in the sweetener consumption, the ratio of glucose to fructose intake has remained relatively constant.

  • Glucose and fructose are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream in the small intestine. Undigested sucrose passing into the intestine is also broken down by sucrase or isomaltase glycoside hydrolases, which are located in the membrane of the microvilli lining the duodenum. These products are also transferred rapidly into the bloodstream.

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  • HFCS ad misleading!!!!!!

    Say it ain't so.

    I always wondered by COKE & Pepsi were so cheap compared to other drinks.

    If you are a soda junkie, try JONES soda - made with cane sugar.

    I make my own soda type drink - buy carbonated water & mix with Ocean Spray - No sugar added version - cranberry.....great tasting..... mix 50/50

    great video!!

    Lets hope this recession bankrupts this industry. Highly unlikey though.

    Spread the word!!!

  • Sorry but Jones soda is sweetened with invert regular table sugar which is chemically nearly identical to HFCS. Look it up.

  • And it has tasty mercury in it. Yay.

  • The US needs to subsidize more fruits and vegetables other than corn.

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  • i drink filtered water and vintage seltzer with fresh lime and lemon in it.

    I hope thats ok -

  • Yes, there is HFCS in Gatorade

  • the only thing I didn't like were the screenshots of the gatorade.

    there's no HFCS in gatorade. tut tut

  • This was fascinating, you know, years ago, I read an article that stated that sugar was as addicting as heroin. I thought that was the most absurd thing that I had ever read, but as the years have went on, I realize now, that that statement wasn't absurb, but so dangerously true. The big question is: high fructose corn syrup is banned in Europe and Australia...Why isn't it banned here?

  • I didn't know high fructose corn syrup was banned in Europe/Australia....another interesting thing is that aspartame is banned in Japan (I think some other asian countries as well) because of all the adverse affects associated with it.

  • And they have recently found that hfcs contains mercury from the processing. But it's ok because that's natural too! If you google "Jhet hfcs" I have a post on it on my blog.

  • Wow, water sweetened with fruit. Deeelish!

  • I have learn a lot about HFCS recently and I have been make changes in my diet. Great video, I like that picture of that woman was snorting cocaine after it was process from a plant analogy. Make sense to me after food is process makes it more likely to harmful to your health and it is better to eat the non-process food in your diet.

  • Great video- its scary how manipulated people are about this ingredient.. and if its so sweet, why do they need to add sweeteners with it.. to hide the taste of the chemicals? Its so weird and I don't trust it for a second!

  • I'm so proud! My 2year old thought that all of that bright colored candy was fruit. He never said candy, but he said "Oh my gosh. Fruit salad" over and over : D

  • HEY PAIZAN! I'm finding a lot of nutritionists that are Italian, like Dr. Mercola...

  • I'm happy to see that someone hyphenated high-fructose corn syrup, which everyone should do because it's a compound modifier. Chalk up a victory for the English language!

  • And who made something about it powerful enough to help?

    I can do something but my environment are contagious to consume this products,so soon or latter I will be suggested to consume this by anybody around me.

    And we are unhealthy because our government doesn't educate us to see many thing that to day are so powerful and control our Politics so who can tell us witch thing are right for the humans since the humans became self destructive lately.

  • Hite is a beer not a soda.

  • your government loves you, obama loves you, keep your head down and your mouth closed and everything will be alright...

  • Yeah, that's what I ment. Regardless we've all been lied to and it's time to wake up. We need God in this country before it's to late. America was founded on Christianity but we've turned our backs on God. That's a dangerous thing to do.

  • There is no god in this conspiracy. The apocalyptic conspiracies are down the hall and on the left.

  • Great Video! It is great to hear some truth in this land of "smoking mirrors". HFCS is a poison that directly leads to diabetes, obesity and liver dysfunction. Give any politician enough money and nicotine is classified as a natural health food.

  • Actually even honey is processed now days. If you take pure natural honey it tastes so sweet many people wouldnt be able to stand it. Everything has been touched in a lie. But thanks to this guy we have some truth. Thanks for the video.

  • actually, you're mistaken. my grandparents keep bees and the sweetness of honey depends entirely on the pants they consume. honey can even have a slightly bitter taste to it :)

  • What about the Mercury that was found in HFCS?

  • I love slideshows of fat people because I always imagine the person sitting at home watching the video going, "Holy shit thats me, but I'm not fat am I?"

  • hahaha

  • those poor fat people need to deal with that candy in the background. you know that makes fat people hugry

  • ahh, honey. brought to you by... BEES! :D

  • i have two sara lee bagels each day ..hey contain HFCS ....i cant give them up ;/

    how bad is that?

  • The problem is its in everything you eat read the labels! *Dont forget your healthy dose of Mercury that's in HFCS oops!

  • This is an amazing video. You've stated all of the facts in a way that we can all "digest" it. Thanks for this info

  • I quit soda last summer its bad shit man you're right.

    (mostly cause of HFCS ofc)

  • and diet soda tastes like shit and its also bad for your teeth, so none of that either.

  • Not to mention it contains aspartame which is linked to Donald Rumsfeld among other ailments.

  • EXTREMELY unhealthy for us. Gov't subsidized cocaine would have the same result---easy cheap access would result in mass addiction. As it already has with this absurd non-food substance.

  • be a viable reason to inject it into pretty much every single processed food on the supermarket shelf. Thus, people would eat less of it. Yes, we are eating far too much sweets, and far too much of what we eat has an overload of sugars in it---but this is because of HFCS! Open your eyes, man. This isn't some hippie movement "blathering" about government subversion and some sort of bullshit organic utopia. The government is sanctioning food that is both plentiful and addictive and

  • Spurcross, you're right that we have an excessively-sweetened diet. It's one of the staples of modern America. What you're missing is that virtually everything in that category is sweetened with HFCS. Soups, breads, cereals, cookies...it's in an EGREGIOUS amount of food. Why is that? Because it's cheap. It's cheap to harvest the corn and cheap to produce the HFCS. Cheap, cheap, cheap is the important word here. If we were still importing cane sugar, it would cost so much more than there wouldn't

  • Of course itz done purposely, the government and pharmaceutical companies could not make trillionz of dollarz a year selling dangerous drugz to americanz if we were all thin and healthy now could they.. Dont be a victim, get smart, get healthy.

  • B. People who blather incessantly about HCFS as containing some evil entity are deluding themselves and others. The point is that we consume too much sugar in all forms. HCFS is just the one that gets subsidized in the USA so it gets used preferentially based on economics and then gets scapegoated by the media.

    Bottom line. It's not the HCFS, it's the excessively-sweetened diet that we eat that leads to the pathology we are seeing from the Western diet.

  • A. We eat too much sugar...PERIOD!

    HCFS and cane sugar have essentially the same amount of fructose (55% and 50% respectively) The powdered form of HCFS (used more in baked goods) is actually only 42% fructose.

    Honey has about 50% fructose, as well. Agave nectar is 90% fructose.

  • You definately have a passion for the issue. Any thoughts on a raw food diet?

    AND Thank You!!

  • the guy in the video is refering to normal table sugar which is a processed thing, cane sugar is what used to be used...I think he did stumble on his words there

    places like Mexico and Japan, they have cane sugar in their sodas, something that is nearly impossible to find in the US these days, and highly expensive to import thanks to the Corn Czars pressure to keep the taxes on it HIGH

  • I think the point is that HFCS is in most things unwitting people are eating everyday - fast food, sodas, buns, TV dinners, most icecreams etc.

    At least with eating naturally, then adding sugar yourself as your taste allows, then at least you are in control over how much sugar you are getting.

  • are you kidding? The south of Florida grows sugar cane and I think Louisiana does also. In fact there are huge tarriffs on imported sugar so that US sugar gets bought

  • Thank you.

  • Well-spoken!

  • I saw the ad today and was like are you kidding me? Like I just gave-up soda and other foods with high-fructose corn syrup a couple weeks ago because of all the bad stuff I was hearing about it. Since than I don't really feel any different, but I did get a six-pack so I mean that's gotta be saying somthing about the obesity part.

  • Plus better to be safe than sorry. I mean they're always changing what foods are safe and not safe. In 20 years they could be like oops we made we made a mistake and half the US has diabetes or something.

  • 5:46 GROSS

  • everything in moderation, but stick with natural sugar and you'll probably be okay

  • what about sugar in the raw? have you ever heard of it? is it is really "raw" so to speak, or it is processed and refined as well?

    Crystal

  • your an idiot.

  • why am i an idiot? I use sugar in the raw and i want to know how healthy or unhealthy it is. I'm a bit of a health freak. I believe our bodies are our powerhouses, our temples. We must treat them right so they treat us right :) I do not think this makes me an idiot and I am sorry you feel that way.

    Crystal

  • There is no such thing as "raw" sugar. It is not a naturally occurring thing, did you even watch the video? lol.

  • actually there is a sugar called "sugar in the raw" and it claims to come straight from the sugar cane unprocessed and unbleached. check it out..google it yourself. I know what I'm talkin bout :)

  • You should tell this guy then, he seems to think otherwise.

  • you are no idiot ! ..

    lol

    yeah , all the sugar is bad but the brown is better at least it's not bleached ...

    i was usin' honey & it got so expensive , i tried the brn. sugar ...

    noticed a big difference ...sadly ...

  • I def hear ya! I still use honey on some things, but it seems as though the US wants everyone overweight! lol I mean the stuff that's healthy costs so much. It's like a conspiracy. Everyone becomes so overweight and then they become diabetic and have heart attacks etc. Doesn't America want us to be fit? What's the deal? Sorry, just did some deep thinking...It just hit me, is the government doing this on purpose? Is it possible?

  • it ain't just you ..

    yeah they do it on purpose ...

    i think now , more than ever before we must watch everything we put in our mouth ..

    obama appointed monsanto in his cabinet ...

    this is a heavy blow ...'franken'food ..

    ...

  • so we have to buy drugs

  • Good job sir!

  • Great response to this HFCS FUD. Keep up the good work.

  • I really like how he deconstructs the whole high fructose corn syrup thing. I also likes how he punctuates his sentences with a single dramatic eyebrow lift. Nice touch!

  • aren't even organic fruits exposed to such things as flouride and barium? eat bananas

  • This might sound like a loaded question, but it's not. I really am curious about where the claim of dementia comes from...

    Whenever I would like some soda, I will go out of my way to BevMo and get some old fashioned sodas that still use cane sugar. Also, Mexican Coca-Cola uses cane sugar if anybody wasn't aware.

    - T3

  • High Fructose corn syrup is that what you were trying to say earlier in the video? Kinda sounded like highfructosecornsyrup wasnt sure if you were trying to shorten the length of the video or what

  • it is sweet:)

  • Oh yes. I've read that they add citric acid which allows them to add much more sugar than otherwise. Without citric acid, the amount of sugar they put in comes out of solution.

    THEY PUT IN SO MUCH SUGAR, IT OVERWHELMS THE CAPACITY OF WATER TO ABSORB IT.

    This is insanity.

  • I've read that in Japan, Diet Coke uses Stevia. Why not here? Looks like the Japanese not only make great cars and DVD players but have the sense to ingest only the good stuff.

  • When I'm forced to eat fast food, I try to mitigate the damage by ordering JUST lettuce, tomato and onion. No ketchup, mustard or mayo. Instead of fries, I go for plain baked potato. Then I ask for soda water or carbonated water.

    Most fast food restaurants can give you soda WATER. That's what they store in tanks and when you ask for a certain drink, coke, orange etc, the water is plain and then the add the flavor. Watch when they pour you a coke. You see it come out of the tap as two parts.

  • What about organic evaporated cane juice? This is in my soy milk. The only sugar added food I eat.

  • Evaporated cane juice is the deception used to avoid the use of the word sugar.

    It's sugar, they're trying to hide the fact.

    I buy pure, soda water. Just highly filtered water and CO2. No other aditives, this is NOT Club Soda which contains various salts. This is pure water.

    To that I add 25% juice. It makes a great drink.

    Look for Soda Water not Club Soda.

  • GREAT video

    5 stars

    when i saw the HFCS commercial, first thought of mine was "complete bullcrap"

    when i cut HFCS off of my diet, i lost nearly a 100 lbs with daily exercise.

  • Co-evolution: Why lemurs can eat giant bamboo leaves that are toxic to humans.

    There is some weight to fears of new "foods". We have not had time to evolve the capability to metabolize many of these substances.

    Maybe HFCS is fine, but why not stick to foods that we know are safe? If you want to be part of a big experiment, that's fine, but know that this is what you are doing, and it is immoral to experiment on someone without their consent.

  • corn sounds like porn

  • this guy knows whats up

    hfcs makes you feel sick

    you ever ask why you feel that way after you eat or drink this stuff

    it will give you dibetes for sureeeeeeeeeeeee

  • I feel so great that I don't drink too much soda, fruit punch, or other things with refined sugars. I drink a lot of filtered water, tea with honey, lemonade sweetened with stevia and vanilla-flavored soymilk.

  • the CORN INDUSTRY CAN suck SATAN'S HIGH FRUCTOSE corn syrup NOW FOR YOU ignorant consumers.

  • i drink several cans of pop a day... i have started drinking koolaid instead since i dont think it has high fructose corn syrup in it.

  • Wow, you are a moron...

    Koolaid is loaded with refined sugars- deadly

    Artificial flavors, preservatives, chemicals, and artificial colors.

    Stick to non-fluoridated water, almond/rice milk, and fruit smoothies.

  • whoa man ... I think kool-aid is just as bad cause it still has refined sugar. Drink juice that that's 100%. no juice cocktails cause they have the highFructoseCornSyrup.

  • koolaid is not good but it is still better for you than soda. i would mix the koolaid with splenda if it didnt cost so much for such a small quantity.

  • Yea like beer is better for you than gin. Moron.

  • exactly like your face is almost as ugly as your ass.

  • That could be why black Americans are such apes, as opposed to the ladder.

  • whaaa?? whites are just as bad!

  • nope.

  • Non-Flouridated water?

    Are you Gen. Ripper??

    I hope you know what I'm talking about.

  • MAN MADE SUGAR IS evil- HFCS

  • honey = natural = best :D

  • Umm.. no.

    The best sugars are complex carbohydrates.. if you have a sweet craving try fruit.

    By the way- if the honey is not organic raw honey than it has HFCS in it!

  • Is honey and brown sugar bad?

  • Pretty much as bad as table sugar. They'll spike your insulin just the same. They might be "cleaner" sweeteners, but that doesn't mean the general effect isn't identical.

  • Why is it that americans have so many stuff with it?.

    In my country we hardly even use that stuff.

    Ive tried looking just to see how it tastes.

  • I just ate a healthy bowl of Kellogg's "All-Bran" With over 10 grams of fiber, but then realized it was chocked full of High-fructose corn syrup, now I feel like... well I think you know. The stuff is in everything. I hate it.

  • hey zardozman7, I feel the same way. For those of us who choose to live a diet-free High-fructose corn syrup life, food manufactors make it so difficult.

    I just dropped Fiber One Brand "Fiber Bars" and Fiber One Brand Cereals, because this stuff is in it.

    Luckily, the grocery store I shop at has a 'Health Foods' section (though very small section), still it's an alternative, so I can at least find a cereal without this stuff in it.

  • Finally, the facts come out. When I saw those pro corn adds I was sick to my stomach. It's so biased and misleading they should be sued for false advertising...

  • LOL, 'once they are refined they are no good for you' and a picture of someone snorting cocaine.

  • Nicely done and easy to follow response to high fructose corn syrup commercials. There's a lot of confusion on HCFS.

    If you want, join a campaign to get cola companies to switch to beet or cane sugars at thepoint[dot]com and search for corn syrup ...I just signed my name.

    Hopefully this starts the path to better corporate responsibility. Cola companies seem to use cane or beet sugar in countries outside the U.S. Why not in the US?

  • Whoa! Check out that extreme gulp! lololololololol.

  • There are foods it is not in. You have to pay more for better quality and it is worth it because it is so bad for your health to take in artificial ingredients. Read your labels.

    THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH Dr. Bellonzi.

  • What the F*** am I supposed to do about this, Corn Syrup's in EVERYTHING! Bahhhh

  • not true. maybe just "everything" that you choose to eat :)

  • Watch the documentary "King Corn". It will open your eyes to how bad high fructose corn syrup is. And its cheap to make and the government substidizes the payment to farmers to encourage them to grow it. And the corn they use for it is a feed grade corn, its not food corn.

  • FDA wants to poison us all

  • Food companies can't be trusted to tell you everything, I worked for one of the biggest, don't trust them or the FDA CFIA . Hope I don't get sued lol