High Fructose Corn Syrup: Friend or Enemy?? We eat every day‚ rarely thinking about what’s going into our bodies. Take soda‚ for example‚ when was the last time you read the label before taking a sip? For me‚ it is never. One of the first ingredients listed on the can is HFCS or high fructose corn syrup. This ingredient is a secret additive to many products in today’s market. High Fructose Corn Syrup is one of the cheapest to make and hardest to get rid of in the body. Since its introduction
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WHAT IS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP? * High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a calorie-providing sweetener used to sweeten foods and beverages‚ particularly processed and store-bought foods. It is made by an enzymatic process from glucose syrup that is derived from corn. A relatively new food ingredient‚ it was first produced in Japan in the late 1960s‚ then entered the American food supply system in the early 1970s. HFCS is a desirable food ingredient for food manufacturers because it is equally
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disease. According to the article in the Huffington Post‚ corn contains nutrients and is high in starch. Corn has high amounts of insoluble fiber‚ which feeds good
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to stick with their commitment to use only natural‚ organic‚ unprocessed ingredients‚ but on the other hand‚ Honest Tea doesn’t want to upset the Coca Cola investors who own 40 percent of their company. I understand how a label that reads “No High Fructose Corn Syrup” could be damaging to product like Coca Cola. As a 40 percent share-holder in the Honest Tea Company‚ Coca Cola has every right to voice their opinion when it comes to this conflict. I believe Coca Cola invested in this Tea Company because
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The Good‚ the Bad and High Fructose Corn Syrup Considered natural‚ corn syrup in essence is a sugar; it is a sugar made from corn. I would reckon that most folks think that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is just another additive of food ingredients and never give it a second notion. I was once like that as well; it was not until about two years ago I realized that corn syrup was somewhat controversial. Now‚ after reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma‚ I realize just how controversial
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Health Effects of High Fructose Corn Syrup Abstract: What is high fructose corn syrup? Is it some kind of disease making machine? High fructose corn syrup is causing many problems in the United States and two of the main problems are obesity and type two diabetes. There are also many other diseases that branch off from these two main diseases‚ like liver and heart disease. In this paper‚ the reason why high fructose corn syrup is becoming such a huge problem in the United States will be explored
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High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a fructose-glucose liquid sweetener alternative to sucrose (common table sugar) first introduced to the food and beverage industry in the 1970s. It is not meaningfully different in composition or metabolism from other fructose-glucose sweeteners like sucrose‚ honey‚ and fruit juice concentrates. HFCS was widely embraced by food formulators‚ and its use grew between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s‚ principally as a replacement for sucrose. This was primarily because
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that a high percentage of American subjects are either diabetic or pre-diabetic‚ I decided to look at the statistics. According to the American Diabetes Association (http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-statistics/)‚ 8.3%‚ or about one in every 12 Americans actually has diabetes and is in need of immediate treatment‚ while another 25% is pre-diabetic‚ in other words likely to need treatment for diabetes in the near future. The great majority of diabetes patients – maybe as high as 95%
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Have you ever thought about how you see high school? I’ve wondered what I will look forward to and what I will dread. There are some excellent and atrocious things to high school. I think it will okay though. I see high school as deeper work‚ more responsibility‚ and more homework. The teachers are a lot harder on you. In high school‚ you get more freedom than in middle school because you’re older. There is harder work because the standards are higher. There is more responsibility because the
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High school is something everyone has been waiting since elementary school. I know I have. The anticipation built up– from K-6‚ middle school‚ and the first day of high school. Little did I know‚ that high school life isn’t all that great. High school can easily be described as a roller coaster. It has fantastic highs and devastating lows. Sometimes you let it bother the hell out of you‚ and other times‚ you just really don’t care. Granted‚ when you are younger‚ all you want to be is a high school
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