Just looking around, I have to say it makes people gain weight. It’s almost as if it turns to fat and is stored, rather than being burned off almost immediately, like normal cane sugar.

I have zero trust in the two corporation mostly closely tied to HFCS, Monsanto and ADM. As long as they are involved, there is no way I’m going to accept it as a good idea.

there are mouse studies that apparently show that you only need a small amount of glucose present [~10%] to offset the ‘bad’ effects of too much fructose, but our 20-ish year long national experiment with hfcs suggests otherwise, at least for humans.
.-= last blog ..What’s it like to be an American living in England and using their socialized medicine? =-.

Avedon Carol made an important point – the Boomers grew up on soft drinks, but we don’t have this obesity epidemic. It is the younger people who have been subjected to HFCS in everything who are gaining weight like crazy.

I know people who drink sweet tea by the gallon, and they haven’t ballooned, but those drinking commercial soft drinks are having problems. I think the fructose is going to fat, while the sucrose is just burning off. I’m talking about people who work outside or play sports during the summer. They drink a lot, and they’ll drink a quart of something cold with meals. Brothers who either work together, or play the same sports, have major weight differences. There may be something else going on that I don’t know about and it is a very small sample, but something odd is happening.

I used to drink a lot of Coke, but I stick with coffee and tea these days, with a spoonful of cane sugar.