Sorry, but I'm on the side of corn-syrup producers. Why demonize their product over white sugar? Only because corn-syrup is cheap to produce and used in places sugar would otherwise be. Thank God a man found a process to make it affordable. Sugar is a basic molecule of life. Plants miraculously produce it during photosynthesis, from sunlight and carbon-dioxide to store in tissues. Bees make it (as honey) to tide them through the winter. (Bee-keepers keep their charges alive by feeding them sugar water laced with minerals.) Witness how ants swarm a melting popsicle on a summer day. All food must be broken down to sugar for your body to use, your brain runs exclusively on sugar. If sugar gives you health troubles, then you have low glucose tolerance. You need GTF (glucose tolerance factor MINERALS, i.e. chromium, vanadium, adiponectin. Fruit is good for you, so is fruit sugar. Sorry to dethrone your bad science. It pisses me off how ignorant people feigning expertise want to affect my own purchase choices by driving up the cost of a natural molecule, because breaking starch down into sugar with enzymes IS natural, and a lot cleaner than spitting into corn mash to make beer. Your food is deficient in minerals from poor land practices. Even the Bible says to let the land lie fallow every 7 years to rebuild (weeds and herbs replace what soil is missing via subtle alchemy, if you read Kervran.)
Anyway, sugar isn't the devil and neither are corn-syrup producers. And no one is holding a gun to your head to eat anything.

Anon 1 said..."Thank God a man found a process to make it affordable." you have GOT to be kidding me. This is a shill comment if I have ever read one. I'm not one to look for shills under every single rock but COME ON.

Of course its not corn syrup per se that is necessarily the problem. The problem is a exactly what you exclaimed "Thank God" over above. This stuff can be pumped out cheaply and dumped into every freaking food from a "healthy" cup of peaches to a slice of "healthy" whole grain bread.

The fact is that the people who suffer the most from this crap being dumped into our food supply at every turn are the poorest and most destitute among us. Let's face it...eating healthy is expensive. Have you checked the price on bag of fresh peaches lately...how about organic peaches? Now tell a family struggling to get by that they should buy those peaches. They can't afford them of course. But they sure can afford to buy that six pack of cups of Con Agra cups of peaches with corn syrup dumped into them.

Even if you ignore the growing body of evidence that the body does NOT treat HFCS the same way shuttling it into dangerous adipose fat ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Pharmacology%2C+biochemistry%2C+and+behavior%22[Jour]+AND+2010[pdat]+AND+Hoebel[author]&cmd=detailssearch )

and that HFCS promotes MORE weight gain (http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...)

or that it may play an integral role in the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... and http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...)

you can't ignore that this stuff has permeated our diet so thoroughly that we can't even eat non-sweet foods without it in it anymore. Highly processed foods are killing us and HFCS is one of the players in our march toward death.

If you want to thank God something do it to the fact that food manufacturers are finally bowing to consumer concerns and pressure and removing this stuff from their foods. But we are not going to be a whole heck of a lot better if they just dump other processed sugars into its place.

Yes Anon 1 fruit IS good for it. REAL fruit without highly processed pseudo-sugars mixed in. You don't need to down some HFCS to get the sugar your body needs. A fresh piece of fruit will do that for you.

OhComeOn, thanks for setting the ridiculous statements made by Anonymous straight! I couldn't have said it better myself!

I recently discovered a new bakery call "Good by to sugar bakery"obviously they eliminated refined sugar, and use a substance called Xylitol, pronunced zi lo tol, no calories and the better than sugar taste, and unlike sugar, flu, cold, and bacterica cannot grip on xylitol, they simply slide off, and the flora in your tummy isn't harmed, as in sugar. by the way its "By By to sugar bakery" located in El Toro, Calif. and no, i'm not the owner, nor do i own stocks in the co.

I must disagree with Anon. Sugar is reasonably poisonous. Besides the empty calories, it is the fructose, which is 50% of sucrose, that seems to cause many of the problems. Corn sugar has a bit more fructrose, but it is not a lot more dangerous than sucrose, which is the stuff commonly called sugar. I would suggest you look at the video "Sugar-The Bitter Truth" produced by one of the Californis State Universities. Google it.

The old Roedale who started Prevention Magazine said fructose is poison in the early 1960s. If you think there is any truth in evolution, consider humanity only experienced large quantities of sugar since the 1700s when it was produced in the West Indies. The other half of sugar is glucose which we have consumed for many more years as grains and potatos.

Your brain runs on glucose, not sugar. Diabeties is a problem with the metabliism of glucose, not "sugar". Fructose causes many other problems. Watch the video and count the arrows if you do not understand the chemistry.

Changing the name of a bottle...doesn't change the poison within!! an old adage, but still true.. The Federal DEATH administration (FDA) should not allow this facade, but they do what the money tells them to do, irregardless of damage to consi=umers!!!

and thank you, Alice, for maintaining the nice balance in this discussion-definitely everybody knows to make their oun conclusions from the written stuff!

Just a quick adendum to the xylitol comment. Xylitol has been used in Europe as a sweetner for decades. In Norwegian bakeries this is a baking staple. It is also an ingredient in Tom's of Maine flouride free toothpaste. As we know flouride is a deadly chemical that has been foisted upon us by the Aluminum Industry for decades. And although countless studies have shown that flouride does NOTHING to help our teeth or prevent cavities it remains the mainstay of the Dental Industry. Xylitol, on the other hand, has been shown to not only prevent cavities, but also improve the overall health of your teeth.

To Anonymous and all the un-informed people who believe him...

Yes, ants do swarm all over a melted popsicle, but NOT to one with HFCS in it. They won't touch the stuff, nor will bacteria. Its VERY BAD STUFF. If you don't believe it then do this:

Put some REAL SUGAR Syrup, made with white sugar out in the open air and watch the bugs and ants swarm it and the mold and bacteria grow in it.

Then do the same with some honey and see the same thing.

Now put some high fructose corn syrup (Karo Syrup) out and watch it for a week. Mold wont grow on it, nor will bacteria. And I don't think the bugs will got to it either, but if they do, they will likely die before they get too far away from it.

Now if mold and bacteria can't live on / in it, how good do you think it is for us to consume it?????

Besides, real researchers and scientists found out back in the 50's that it is a primary cause of Type II Diabetes. The FDA banned it for years until the producers "bought off" the FDA, fired the real scientists and hired scientists who would approve it for them for the right amount of money and job perks. There is a reason it is STILL banned in Mexico - it's very bad for humans. If you want a REAL Coca Cola, with REAL Sugar in it rather than poison HFCS, go to Mexico. And if you want any soda pop made with real sugar rahter than "corn sugar" buy a Mexican brand, made in Mexico. HFCS and the new moniker "corn sugar" are banned as food additives in Mexico.

Don't believe me? Got a computer? Check it out. Do a little research for yourself. Try searching "corn syrup and the FDA" or something similar until yuo find the real history of it at the FDA. If you are too lazy to get the FACTS yourself, then you deserve to have the sidd effects of consuming massive amounts of it in soda pop over a period of years. The two main ones are obesity and diabetes.

In responce to the writer on HFCS, some facts they did not consider are: When they process HFCS they add CHLORINE. Chlorine is a toxin that when taken into your body scars the inner walls of the arteries causing the LDL (bad Cholesterol) to cling to the scared arteries causing blockages.
I responce to the cost of pure sugar v. HFCS, what price tag can you put on the cost illness and disease?