Comments on: Sweetener Controversy Grows

Funding For Many Of The High Fructose Corn Syrup Studies Came From Companies With A Financial Stake In The Outcome

[docpeter1953]

The big picture here: as long as HFCS isn''t treated with other chemicals it is likely NOT BAD for you in small amounts.

Remember back during 10th grade biology class when you discussed thinks like the Kreb''s cycle, substrate level phosphorilation, and the electron transfer cycle chain, cellular respiration, glycolysis, etc. Remember we took a molecule of sucrose (table sugar) and produced 22 ATP molecules.

Well guess what, Fructose can also be entered into the same cycle to produce ATP.

OH? Wonders of wonders, right?

The problem with HFCS comes in with the concentration(s) being used to "sweeten" things. We are placing many times more calories with HFCS than we would if we drank everything unsweetened. Your kids are getting that "sugar high", and storing the excess calories as, guess what(?), FAT. The same thing would happen if they consumed xs table sugar.

[Michael Arnold]

If you are concerned with corn-syrup and main-street processed foods in general, READ THIS BOOK: "Omnivores Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. You''ll never think the same about corn or food again.

[antoniof123]

So let me see if the company that has a stake in the product tells you it is okay then we should beleive them?

What about tabacco didn''t those companies tell us it was safe and non addititive.

Yea, right and we should trust these wacko''s please if you do then talk to me about buying some land in the Florida everglades.