Re: Is Karo syrup the same as high-fructose corn syrup?



On Aug 15, 5:19 pm, Dan Abel <da...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<44363216-3502-483d-a556-2301e1dea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Jerry Avins <j...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 15, 9:47 am, kozzak <kozz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Contrary to those idiotic ads....there is abosolutely no difference
between high-fructose corn syrup, white sugar, brown sugar, etc. It is
ALL sugar and it is metabolized by your body the same way...!

I don't believe it. Can you point me to a credible citation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

"Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of
Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods."

Warning, this is 1.5 hours!  Somewhere in the beginning, he makes the
claim that the difference in metabolizing between HFCS and sucrose

An hour and a half is a little too long for me. Metabolism aside, and
granting that too much sugar is bad diet, I prefer the taste of cane
(or beet) sugar. No matter what the health effects are, the quarter
pound or so of discretionary sugar I use in a year might as well be
what I like.

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
get.
.



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