FOOD NEWS: A Conversation with "King Corn" Filmmaker

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Part 1: A conversation with filmmaker Curt Ellis about his new documentary "King Corn", the film that may open eyes across America. Surprisingly, corn is present in some form or another, in almost everything on the American plate. And, none more so, than through the food ingredient "high fructose corn syrup" (HFCS). Is it a good idea to have "HFCS" present in so many of our foods without prior public debate, or adequate science to measure its impact on the long-term health of adults, and especially our children? Should our standard meals be unnaturally skewed toward a corn based diet, in the first place? This interview, along with video clips from the documentary, may not provide the answers here, but it's a good beginning for further thought and reflection. What do you think?

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[capnvideo2006]

Fructose is a POISON to your body......your liver doesnt know what to do with the stuff. dont use it and watch the weight drop off........dont drink coca cola and other hight fructose products....the stufff is even in Campbells tomato soup

[jrockforsure]

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[byrnecobain]

@capnvideo2006 High fructose corn syrup in Coca Cola only has 5% more fructose than normal sucrose (cane sugar). The high fructose corn syrup added to most solid processed foods has 8% less fructose than cane sugar. Fructose is only poison to a human body in excess, as is water, or basically any other compound.

[trz541]

@capnvideo2006 tell that to durian rider dumbass...

[asapics]

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[cosmowaif67]

Poison and GM Poison too... it's a double whammy. And Monsanto is at the top of the pile of dead bodies...

[thecommentmonster]

@capnvideo2006 fructose = not poison, natural in diet, especially as it occurs in fruits and vegetables

high fructose corn syrup = poison

[back112358]

iam i food technologist and a animal sciencer in brazil, and all i gotta say is: even meat and milk and eggs and other kinds of food are based on corn. it has a good a bad importance, let's see both sides of it's opinion. what amercans must see is that politicians are introducin all they want in theirs head. Look at France. They r changing theyr contry, building a nation

[fishfoodgeneral]

@dancar Thank you...the notion that fructose is inherently poisonous is absurd; it occurs naturally in most fruits. While I'll admit that the quantity of sugars(HFCS, cane sugar, beet sugar, sucrose, fructose, etc) is alarming and HFCS and the food system surrounding it is responsible for all sorts of ailments, don't go off labeling a molecule poison when you clearly don't know the biology and chemistry behind it. Please do more research first...

[fishfoodgeneral]

An ad just ran for Macdonalds before I could watch this video. Irony?

[Orbot]

"Food technologists developed high fructose corn syrup," That line alone is scary!

[Orbot]

@capnvideo2006 Exactly! You might as well throw sucralose, aspartame, saccharin, etc. in that mix. You're almost better off using an "decent" amount of regular sugar than any of these. The does atleast recognize and as a result, knows how to handle sugar more than the "imposters!"

[dancar]

@capnvideo2006 so anyone who ever ate a piece of fruit should be dead from the poison which is fructose, which is in fruit........

[orgamikrikit]

@IoEstasCedonta Sugar and fructrose in the modern diet, in these quantities, is so common, and so recent in terms of human history, that humans are not prepared top deal with it....this is the reason, I believe, for the obesity epidemic.

[orgamikrikit]

@IoEstasCedonta Again, fructose may be everywhere, but it was not considered important for survival...and, for the most part, scarce in terms of use for day to day caloric intake. Im not sure where I suggested that refined sugar is better than fruit. But fructose and refined sugar debate can be endless, and at the end of the day, unecessary.  Either one should be a very small part of any diet, period. Unless someone is an endurance athlete...

[orgamikrikit]

@IoEstasCedonta - Honey would have been a treat; and to that extent, a treat like other fructose laden fruits. Apples have about 14 grams of sugar, and a cup of grapes, 20 grams. One cup of wilb berries- a large serving by the way- 14 grams of sugar (ala fructose). This is not substantial enough calories to survive. These were not fuel staples, they were an minor addition to meat, barley, corn, beans, wheat...etc--protein and complex carbs.

[IoEstasCedonta]

@orgamikrikit Wild berries, on the other hand, have been a source of energy since the glaciers receded.

[IoEstasCedonta]

@orgamikrikit Sorry, thought I should clarify: I know apples (not sure about grapes) aren't native to Europe. But they are frequently referenced in artifacts dating to antiquity, even if eaten less than today (most people then being malnourished...).

And, of course, there's a such thing as too much fruit, but the point is that you're implying fruit nutritional extracts + sucrose would be better for you than most of the fruits (pineapples, et al., are a sucrose-high exception) themselves.

[IoEstasCedonta]

@orgamikrikit First off, if you're going to go back a thousand years, *honey*, not refined sugar, would have been the sweetener of choice, with roughly the fructose of HFCS. Because most nectars are mostly fructose, and certainly flowers grow everywhere.

Wild berries grow in abundance everywhere. Apples and grapes have been part of the Western diet for millenia.

Even if I'm wrong about (our cruel enemy) "nature," though, are you seriously suggesting refined sugar is better than fresh fruit?!

[orgamikrikit]

@IoEstasCedonta - Oh? Fructose is everywhere for people to consume huh? Perhaps you can point to a place where sweet fruit (fructose) has grown in abundance and used as an important fuel source for humans for years. Newsflash: the supermarket is not an accurate representation of nature. Nor is the occurance of fruit in modern human diet an accurate reflection of diets of the average person a thousand years ago (a very short time ago). So yeah, it is scarce.

[MyceliaProductions42]

@IoEstasCedonta Ah cool. Sorry if that post of mine was belligerent. God knows how late it was when I did that. Hehe. Thanks for the info.

[capnvideo2006]

thanks for opening my mind.....:-)