Re: Is corn syrup bad?

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:24:05 -0500, That Guy wrote:

> "mirandajoanhowe@xxxxxxxxx" <mirandaraven@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>> That Guy wrote:
>>> Lately I've been hearing people make references to corn syrup (especially
>>> the high-fructose kind) as unhealthy. Is this so? If so, why?
>>
>> yes. corn syrup is bad. very bad. it makes fat. corn's what they use to
>> fatten calves to the kill. Soda pop is a river of corn syrup. Love,
>> <R>
> Do you happen to know how that works? I thought fructose was lower-cal than
> regular sucrose.
>
> I know that in general anything refined or processed is bad. As Jack
> LaLanne supposedly said, "If man made it, don't eat it." However I like to
> know specifics, and I haven't had much luck Googling it yet....
>


To say that it is "very bad" is an exaggeration. It is high calorie. And
like anything else that is high calorie, it should be treated carefully,
and consumed in moderation.

To say that "it makes fat", and leave it as simple as that is almost
outright false. If you consume more calories than you burn, you will gain
weight (gain fat). Even if you were to avoid corn syrup completely, you
would still gain weight (and fat) if you consumed more calories than you
burn. Conversely, if you burn more calories than you consume, you will
loose weight (and fat), even if you are consuming corn syrup.

High calorie food have to be paid extra attention because they make it
easy to consume more calories than you burn.

Cattle is fed corn because it dramatically increase the amount of calories
they take in, not because it has some 'magic' ability to cause weight
gain. (They are not allowed to get much exercise either, thus keeping
down the number of calories they burn each day.)



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