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Fructose found to be toxin.

source: http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/articles/obesity-and-metabolic-syndrome-driven-by-fructose-...

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A recent study by the University of California finds the recent increase of high fructose corn syrup to be the cause for the obesity epidemic in the western world.
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67 comments // Fructose found to be toxin.

  • Tracy_Wrigley
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      Tracy_Wrigley  

    • How many of you actually read the article and then followed up with a little investigating on your own before posting an immature statement? Apathy is an insult to humanity and the reason they are poisoning their herd of sheeple, you're LETTING them. Most of you do not CARE at all. Survival of the fittest...

    • 2 years ago
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  

    • I'm pretty sure ANYTHING is toxic at a high enough amount.

      I love too that syrup is ORGANIC, sap from trees, anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

      Why has nature forsaken us?!?!!?!?!?

    • 2 years ago
  • rubycon40
  • bratrat
  • akamaial
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      akamaial [removed]  

    • donnyin3d, do you know how much food contains high fructose corn syrup in it ?
      It is hard to pick up off a shelf in a grocery store that does not contain some measure of high fructose corn syrup in it. Here is just a sample list:
      Foods highest in Fructose (based on levels per 200-Calorie serving)

      * Cereal Grains and Pasta (39)
      * Breakfast Cereals (23)
      * Baked Products (21)
      * Vegetables and Vegetable Products (138)
      * Fruits and Fruit Juices (78)
      * Nut and Seed Products (23)
      * Legumes and Legume Products (7)
      * Finfish and Shellfish Products (3)

      * Poultry Products (3)
      * Pork Products (44)
      * Lamb, Veal, and Game Products (2)
      * Sausages and Luncheon Meats (4)
      * Dairy and Egg Products (15)
      * Soups, Sauces, and Gravies (1)
      * Fats and Oils (18)
      * Snacks (20)

      * Sweets (10)
      * Spices and Herbs (16)
      * Beverages (11)
      * Baby Foods (45)
      * Ethnic Foods (32)
      * Meals, Entrees, and Sidedishes (11)
      * Fast Foods, generic (167)

      Although not toxic per se, it is not easily assimilated into useful energy components and is absorbed into fat quiet readily, contributing greatly to obesity.

    • 2 years ago
  • donnyin3d
  • donnyin3d
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      donnyin3d  

    • So... what? Are you people incapable of shopping for your own food? If you have such a problem with fructose,don't buy it.The U.S. economy is consumer-based.The government has more important things to do than tell stupid people about nutrition.

    • 2 years ago
  • michail77
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      michail77  

    • Yes, that's the case with many of the modern food additives. Getting rid of them makes for better tasting foods.

      They exist so the food industry can jam the cheapest crap with the longest shelf life down our throats (literally).

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • Real ketchup , without hfcs in it puts store ketchup to shame . I made it one year , when I had a large crop of tomatoes . I will not eat that sorry excuse for food again . You can get it without anyway , it is worth looking for ..

    • 2 years ago
  • donnyin3d
  • anglcazn
  • turquoisePatrice
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      turquoisePatrice  

    • Food with high fructose corn syrup tastes like shit.....
      The idea of eating it make me sick, I try to avoid it at all costs. If you look a little harder you can find the same foods without the corn in them.

    • 2 years ago
  • Spoon2013
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      Spoon2013  

    • Couldn't be from all the over eating? You know shoving food down your throat even when your not hungry? Or maybe sitting on your ass all day getting no natural light or exercise?

      I don't maybe its just me...

      PUT THE FORK DOWN FATTY!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • michail77
  • currentlylarue
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      currentlylarue  

    • If everyone could locally grow everything, go to local farmer's markets, it would be fine.
      MAKE YOUR ICE CREAM AT HOME PEOPLE!!!
      They also have ice cream WITHOUT high fructose corn syrup or hfcs. haha okay listen listen, if you want some sweetener stay away from Splenda - it's just not good for you. Go for the Stevia plant's natural sweetener. It's great and good for you.
      If someone would just do something about all the McDonald's it would be better. I fucking hate fast food. Makes me sick. I have a lot of friends who eat fast food every week. I deal with it - don't eat it. Plain and simple. People to have some bloody control over themselves. Also save yourself that BUCK on the dollar menu. Skip that. Go home and eat a fucking delicious meal with your family. If you don't have a family go home to your dog. Then take him for a walk. Because Allah knows he PROBABLY needs it too!

    • 2 years ago
  • ras_menelik
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      ras_menelik  

    • Evolution evolution......

      Only natives can Handel corn

      bad for cattle and any one with less than 500 years of CORN history

      still better than the new stuff

    • 2 years ago
  • neonbunny
  • Leonidis
  • currentlylarue
  • lvp
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      lvp  

    • So are these propaganda Pro-HFCS ads now illegal?

      Sorry but this is a collective DUH!

      This is the same BS as cigarette propaganda back in the day.

    • 2 years ago
  • DougChristian
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      DougChristian  
    • lvp:

      Isn't it fun to blame others for our problems?

      There is no substantial health difference between HFCS and table sugar. The article doesn't say there is and that's because there isn't. Both are composed of about 50% fructose. Look it up.

      It's not about switching from HFCS back to sugar, it's about eating less sugar. HFCS is simply a cheaper option. It is American self control that is the problem.

    • 2 years ago
  • lvp
  • nightmonkey
  • dagodiva
  • hell0everything
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      hell0everything  

    • Whoa, great article.

      "The trend accelerated beginning about three decades ago, when cheap, easy-to-transport high-fructose corn syrup became widely available."

      ...aaaaaand that's exactly why it's not going to stop being produced in our "foods" =) It's cheap cheap cheap.

      It's getting increasingly difficult to get packaged foods that don't have corn syrup in them, which really is a shame.

    • 2 years ago
  • rockstarmillionaire
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • rockstarmillionaire:

      I was waiting for someone to bring up the point you did. My kin were organic farmers from Italy and the USA. Being steeped in natural food science since 1972, I've known that organic, naturally grown fruit starts out as starchy, and has amylase enzymes in it to convert the starch into simple sugars to furnish the seed with enough power to sprout. Then the coteley dn pushed through the soil until it finds the sunlight, and starts using photosynthesis to grow the new generation of plant life. It really doesn't matter whether it's an annual or a tree. The process should be the same whether it's a strawberry plant or a banana tree. Or even a tomato plant since they are classified as part of the berry family, though they're called a vegetable. Which brings me to corn. It appears since corn is so high in natural fructose, like tomatoes, it's being exploited to provide pure sugar per se, which is dangerous to health. In its natural state, the fructose in corn cobs is protected by the fibre of the plant. That is, it's released slowly in your bloodstream so as not to cause a heavy insulin response. Chronic heavy insulin responses cause hyperinsulinism, a form of insensitivity to the pancreatic metabolic hormone which causes chronic high blood sugar, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The unmetabolized sugar will literally burn your blood and cause unconsciousness. By refining it as "high fructose syrup" the bastards are causing extreme health problems in Americans. Especially children. The "health care epidemic" in the USA is fueled (no pun intended) by that unnaturally occurring form of refined sugar. And I have no doubt that since they dump that crap into all forms of processed foods, that they intend for it to satisfy an addiction. That's right, sugar is addictive, as cocaine is. By refining sugar it's not analogously different than refining cocaine into crack cocaine. Noone needs to take in extra sugar for any conceivable reason. The human body is naturally chemically equipped to convert any fuel source into sugar because the brain and muscles run on only one form of the simplest sugar anyway. I'm sure Big Pharma, and Big Insurance relish exploiting the health care pidemic caused by their Big Oil Monopoly spin offs of Corporate Farming to make King Korn their new cocaine. It's obvious their bought dogs in the Senate could care less that they're being bribed by parasitic public enemies intent on sabotaging Americans health to profit by the damage they cause the innocent, and naive. Doing deliberate damage to people so that others in their cabal can have make work to profit by is a racket Capitol Bill is now party to. No wonder the Congresional Corporate Party clerks want to ram it down people's throats. This is too scandalously criminal for even for the most cynical person to stomach.

    • 2 years ago
  • endovenoso
  • Valence
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      Valence  

    • People know,its just hard to avoid or better yet people are too lazy to read the ingredients of the stuff they are eating or drinking :/

      A couple laps around a track can fix this in no time :/ FEAR NOT!

    • 2 years ago
  • amazonprincess
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      amazonprincess  

    • News and findings like this should wake up people. But unfortunately we have a population of "I-don't-care" attitude. This attitude has led to out-of-control medical costs, driving more profits to the health insurance industry.

      In short, between the greedy and unscrupulous food industry and the health industry, the consumers are being exploited then killed once they run out of money.

      GREED, profits, and capitalism have reached an unsustainable point. Consumers are deceived, reports and studies are tainted, and health care is out of control. This is the PERFECT STORM we are heading to if we don't wake up.

    • 2 years ago
  • cattheawesome
  • Leonidis
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • I seem to avoid it . When I do eat it I gain weight though . So I have an incentive some are not aware of . I do eat honey , maple syrup , and agave . I get plenty of sweet stuff .

    • 2 years ago
  • freshfish
  • thetoycamera
  • Tyrannous
  • thetoycamera
  • Valence
  • bjdorsho
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      bjdorsho  

    • So correct me if I am wrong but the word 'toxin' is not mentioned anywhere in the article that this post references. I am not arguing that fructose doesn't have toxins, I don't know either way and frankly I don't care. The point is I know a lot of people who complain about how the media is manipulative and massages stories to suit their own agenda. Isn't using terminology that, albeit gets the point across, but does not accurately reflect the content of the story misleading and wrong??? I am all for discussing opposing viewpoints but you can't totally misrepresent the whole story starting in the headline.

    • 2 years ago
  • magnusdeus
  • Furious00
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      Furious00  
    • bjdorsho:

      This article is actually a summary of a lecture given by Dr. Lustig. It can be found on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

      In the lecture he shows that fructose metabolism is extremely similar to ethanol metabolism in the liver. He also states that there are 2 forms of toxins, acute and chronic. Fructose is a chronic toxin, something that is not regulated by the FDA.

      So, while the article inadvertently left the word "toxin" out, it most definitely is the theme of the lecture.

    • 2 years ago
  • magnusdeus
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      magnusdeus  

    • It'd be nice to see some change as a result of this, but I won't hold my breath. I try to buy as natural as possible but HFCS is in practically EVERYTHING.

    • 2 years ago
  • Keylimesublime
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      Keylimesublime  

    • Not at all surprised. This is interesting because I don't think most people were aware of it. The even more interesting part would be trying to wean myself off of it since I've had a lifetime of consuming it. Yipes.

    • 2 years ago
  • michail77
  • mgerlach22
  • kennymotown
  • asherp
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      asherp  

    • The best sweetener?

      Fuckin' sugar.

      The best thing to fry something in? Margerine? NOPE!! It's Animal fat.

      Why? Your body can't process those other things. It's like asking your body to digest plastic.

    • 2 years ago
  • lvp
  • Leonidis
  • michail77
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      michail77  

    • Yes, this has always been known.

      The food industry uses stuff like this for the primary purpose of making cheap foods. Partially hydrogenated oil is another toxin that should be banned. It causes heart disease, cancer and has been shown to lower IQ. Essentially it makes people dumber and fatter before it kills them.

      I'd usually say to let consumers make the choice. However, it's damn hard to avoid many of the bad ingredients in processed foods.

    • 2 years ago
  • EverChanging
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • If you like the effect of non high fructose in liguid form, then instead of satisfying your sugar addicition by
      going for a soda, get yourself a Jack LaLane juicerator, and juice some carrots. You won't believe how natuaraly
      sweet in the right proportion yet invigorating that is. It's been the choice of body builders since the 1950s when he pioneered juice bars at his gym. Too much sugar is no different than too much poison. It will burn your blood.

    • 2 years ago
  • Hunnter
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      Hunnter  
    • PressCore:

      This, carrots are amazing when juiced.
      Mixing some fruits and veg around can come out with some pretty damn amazing flavors, some many times better than any sugary drinks.

    • 2 years ago
  • think_free
  • masterzip
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      masterzip  

    • any food that is processed is contaminated with poison, read you ingredients and see just how many you ingest.

      then,..look what it is packaged in, is it plastic? BHP? which also causes cancer...

    • 2 years ago
  • galwayman
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      galwayman  

    • I have only one question: Does this mean a return to using all natural sweetners again? I hate all of that snythetic crap and frutose in soda causes gas!

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • It is actually . So is a few other sweeteners . Some are processed with mercury . While the producer says that it gets removed or evaporates , I do not believe this is the cast . High fructose corn syrup shows up in the human liver completely unaltered . In other words in can be tasted , but cannot be digested .

    • 2 years ago
  • idealist
  • cwc_agent
  • idealist
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      idealist  

    • so high fructose corn syrup is that much worse eh?
      i read that putting food coloring is humming bird feeders is bad cus of the fructose in the dye. it makes the birds over agressive & cracks them out like new york side walk.

    • 2 years ago
  • worldcitizen4
  • DougChristian
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      DougChristian  
    • idealist:

      No, it's not. Amazing how almost everyone on here misunderstood the article.

      The article is about how fructose-based sugar in general is bad. It did not say that HFCS is worse than regular table sugar. It said both are bad.

      What you may not know is that sucrose (table sugar) is actually 50% fructose and 50% glucose. HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. Fructose is the dangerous sugar, so HFCS is only marginally worse.

      It is the abundance, not the existence, of HFCS in our diet which is the problem. We'd have the same problems if we switched to regular sugar.

    • 2 years ago
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