the corn industry has put out about HFC?

Basically an uninformed guy who can't answer a question about what might be wrong with consuming HFC and a girl sounding very educated saying it's "made from corn and has the same calories as sugar".

Corn industry must be worried about losing some the bazillions of dollars they are making on the stuff due to people trying to educate themselves and eat healthier, huh?

I'm not going to try and claim that HFC is single handedly responsible for the rise in obesity and diabetes. I'm sure it doesn't effect some people at all. But I know that, for me, eliminating as much as possible from my diet made a huge difference and I'm not all that unique so I imagine others would have issues with it as well. I think I'm more annoyed by the "propaganda" feeling I got from the whole thing. Tacit implication being that you are something of a dumb@** if you think there is anything unhealthy about it. For me, corn in general is too starchy so I'm keeping all corn products to a minimum. I guess it bothers me that there might be others out there who would benefit from avoiding HFCs that are going to think that because they "saw on TV that it was OK" will go on consuming it.

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I saw an ad in a magazine the other day... I was slightly disturbed by it.

"my hairdresser says that HFC is bad for you"

"you get your hair done by a doctor?"

and ten proceeds to say the same- has the same calories etc as sugar.

Now, I'm all for having evidence for your choices and not just jumping on trends for no real reason. But the "you get your hair done by a doctor?" line is just stupid. There is a doctor to back up any opinion you like. To be fair, the same is true of hairdressers .

I suppose it's a good sign really. The HFCS people are feeling it.

We seem to have two threads on the same subject going on so, to save space, I'm going to ask folks who want to comment to hop on over to LindsayLouWho's thread titled "Pro High Fructose Corn Syrup Commercial"