Comments on: Why High Fructose Corn Syrup is Good For Drinkers http://www.thedrunkpirate.com/2008/12/10/why-high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-good-for-drinkers/ Rants & Reviews for the Drinking Lifestyle Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:41:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: HFCS is BAD http://www.thedrunkpirate.com/2008/12/10/why-high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-good-for-drinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-754 HFCS is BAD Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:43:04 +0000 http://www.thedrunkpirate.com/?p=575#comment-754 HFCS has mercury in it. GOOGLE IT. Slowly poisoning yourself. HFCS has mercury in it. GOOGLE IT. Slowly poisoning yourself.

]]> By: hypatia http://www.thedrunkpirate.com/2008/12/10/why-high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-good-for-drinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-603 hypatia Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:41:00 +0000 http://www.thedrunkpirate.com/?p=575#comment-603 "You can eat a whole barrel of the stuff and not gain anywhere near the weight you would with the same amount of sugar." If you only ate sugar or high fructose corn syrup that would be true but there is another effect that you didn't mention. When you eat sugar (and don't burn off the calories) your body converts it to fat. Fairly simple. Your body starts treating high fructose corn syrup the same way but your body interprets it as actually being sweeter than sugar. This imbalance causes your body to start grabbing starches and carbs from the other food that you are eating and convert them into sugars and then fats. The result, equal amounts of sugar vs. high fructose corn syrup in the diet all other things equal, the one with sugar will end up with less fat on their ass. There is actually a very similar documented effect with aspartame as well, which is why dieters should stay off the diet stuff. “You can eat a whole barrel of the stuff and not gain anywhere near the weight you would with the same amount of sugar.”

If you only ate sugar or high fructose corn syrup that would be true but there is another effect that you didn’t mention.

When you eat sugar (and don’t burn off the calories) your body converts it to fat. Fairly simple.

Your body starts treating high fructose corn syrup the same way but your body interprets it as actually being sweeter than sugar. This imbalance causes your body to start grabbing starches and carbs from the other food that you are eating and convert them into sugars and then fats.

The result, equal amounts of sugar vs. high fructose corn syrup in the diet all other things equal, the one with sugar will end up with less fat on their ass.

There is actually a very similar documented effect with aspartame as well, which is why dieters should stay off the diet stuff.

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