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In reply to the discussion: Fructose and HFCS: Once again the "skeptics"* are wrong. [View all]HuckleB
(35,773 posts)286. No, it doesn't.
And the rest of the information I've provided further shows your claims to be without justification.
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+1,000,000. Thank dog somebody came right out and said it. It couldn't be more obvious.
GoneFishin
Apr 2016
#302
Uhm, none of us said any of those things in the posts below, yet we are called bullies why you...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#56
I can't understand how some of them are allowed to run the Health Forum
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#368
Always felt those were bad for us, stopped buying anything with them in it years ago.
djean111
Apr 2016
#2
If you eat no sugar, you will have no energy to power things like muscle movement.
Maedhros
Apr 2016
#332
Organic fruits and vegetables always have a 5 digit sticker code beginning with 9
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#369
Indeed. Sugars weren't compared, the N is too small, & the study itself is at odds with the article.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#10
Yep, just more click bait intended for the consumption of those who have no idea what sugar is
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#12
Always spend time exploring before posting things that confirm your preconceptions.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#320
Also because this crud is manufactured from GMO corn grown in fields of glyphosate
AxionExcel
Apr 2016
#23
but accoridng to other people, glyphosate is perfectly safe and chemicals used on organic foods are
Fast Walker 52
Apr 2016
#33
glyphosate is actually safe, particularly in the levels found in food, are you saying there's...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#58
Of course, but that level is so low as to be practically irrelevant from a product safety...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#103
World Health Organization Won’t Back Down From Study Linking Monsanto to Cancer
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#115
If it is so safe, why is the FDA going to start testing levels in our food
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#189
The government??? FDA is a joke in this matter!! - good for the Government Accountability Office!!
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#248
"The brain and the body are deficient in the machinery to make DHA; it has to come through our diet"
Jim__
Apr 2016
#9
Your probably right - the sugar cane is probably GMO free but loaded with glysphate
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#249
Well thats just silly, sugar is refined to the point where there are no chemical differences....
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#266
Buying organic can keep the rivers and lakes from being even more polluted
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#278
Why would that be scary, and is that even true? In addition, organic isn't better for the...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#293
Wow! you and HuckleB make a great team - talk exactly alike - maybe you are the same person
womanofthehills
May 2016
#381
There's a girl in Idaho who needs a heart and lung transplant because...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#57
It's belief in pseudoscience that makes it difficult to deal with climate change.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#59
It's scary to see people who think putting pesticides in our bodies is a good thing
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#116
Organic pesticides are safer - traditional farming uses organophostphate pesticides
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#276
That piece debunks the piece written by Christie Wilcox - corporation shill
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#284
I discovered some time ago that Republicans don't have a monopoly on stupid.
Act_of_Reparation
Apr 2016
#237
Just had my bowl of chia seeds and am aware of DhA's effects but this blew me away
Person 2713
Apr 2016
#16
Because that was what they were studying. And Anti HFCS Woo mongers are misinterpreting.
Thor_MN
Apr 2016
#80
Yep, it is a chemical reaction. And you mistated what I said about metabolism.
yellowcanine
Apr 2016
#106
Sucrose is not a "mixture". It is a disaccharide with one glucose and one fructose molecule n/t
eridani
Apr 2016
#131
I don't just think, I KNOW that catalyzed reactions are thousands of times faster than
eridani
Apr 2016
#362
If uncatalized rates were fast enough, there would be no sucrase or invertase n/t
eridani
Apr 2016
#372
I'd like people to quit talking about acidic hydrolysis as if it were meaningful
eridani
Apr 2016
#377
Get over it. The fact that there are enzymes in no way invalidates other mechanisms.
Thor_MN
Apr 2016
#378
Back to the "There can be only one" nonsense, with absolutely nothing to back it up...
Thor_MN
May 2016
#384
I think even saying sugar is bad for you is incorrect, we need it to live...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#46
I like my spoonful of sugars, there's also the other side, lack of exercise.
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#54
I'm not aware of any cesium contamination in commercial fish (maybe I just haven't heard about it)
drm604
Apr 2016
#147
That was what the article was about. How DHA protects the brain and perhaps improves the brain.
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#230
What's hilarious about self-described "skeptics" is that they are never skeptical about corporate
villager
Apr 2016
#26
Well that's just not true, but keep believing that if it makes you feel better. n/t
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#47
The issue is when you have to make shit up to get your point across, that's not honest...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#53
You seem to think the political and economic is entirely divorced from the scientific.
villager
Apr 2016
#113
The scientific should be used to inform policies, but aren't policies themselves....
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#204
Except you appear to want to simply make things up and pretend science will support them.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#225
You have already pushed misinformation about the topic, so your claim is rather misleading.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#247
You seem to think that ignoring the science and crying "corporate FUD!" magically ...
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#257
Monsanto should be blamed - Agent Orange, Dioxin, DDT, Roundup, PCB's, rBGH, GMO's
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#118
So now its down to outright lying? Seriously, has there been a single post you have posted...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#140
Glyphosate has little toxicity, the levels would have to be extremely high to be toxic to humans....
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#206
Youbwould have to drink the concentrate to get measurable health effects....
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#255
Why do you accuse me of lying? Agent Orange brought to you by Monsanto and Dow
womanofthehills
Apr 2016
#199
No shit, they were forced to do so by the government, the government even knew the health effects...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#203
Indeed. It's astounding to see people just make blanket statements about others.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#67
Not off-topic at all. The sub-thread topic was "who is skepticism reserved for?"
villager
Apr 2016
#149
Oh, goodness. That response is more hilarious than you, apparently, could ever imagine.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#159
No need to disparage my imagination, my friend. I need it for the SF threads...
villager
Apr 2016
#186
Interesting how corporate public relations arguments suddenly become the bar of accepted truth.
pa28
Apr 2016
#179
Well, the OP claims that the fructose in HFCS is "different" from other fructose
Scootaloo
Apr 2016
#231
How does this study have anything to do with "the halls of financial and political power?"
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#273
History simply shows that skepticism should generally be levied toward the powerful
villager
Apr 2016
#274
Well, there at least is a genuine yearning for conversation, it seems, underneath all that.
villager
Apr 2016
#294
Does the OP not use "skeptics" as a pejorative for those who actually understand science?
Thor_MN
Apr 2016
#306
It was a riposte to those self-anointed "skeptics" who sought to keep the term to themselves
villager
Apr 2016
#310
Don't act like the forum police and try to tell me where I can post and what I can write about.
procon
Apr 2016
#94
Do you have anything constructive to contribute or are you just here to insult?
Thor_MN
Apr 2016
#154
fructose has long been known to be toxic, this isn't really new. ALSO, most sugar has fructose
Fast Walker 52
Apr 2016
#35
wow, you basically just rewrote everything I said, but I'm glad we agree overall
Fast Walker 52
Apr 2016
#92
Of course our bodies don't metabolize fructose and glucose in the same way.
TexasProgresive
Apr 2016
#37
Maybe, if so why do they feed the Wistar fatty rats fructose to elevate TGs?
TexasProgresive
Apr 2016
#91
Yes. I also know that apples aren't manufactured from GMO corn raised in glyphosate-soaked fields
AxionExcel
Apr 2016
#134
I see you're still butthurt over getting banned for pushing chemtrail nonsense
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#222
Yeah... About that. A study done in California showed no real difference in Mexican coke.
Thor_MN
Apr 2016
#307
The studies were about the hormone leptin, which signals the feeling of satiety.
BuddhaGirl
Apr 2016
#139
It's related to fructose, which is in table sugar at the same basic amount as HFCS.
HuckleB
Apr 2016
#142
Uhm, fructose is a sugar, are you claiming ohterwise? Table sugar is about half fructose...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#141
I don't know what that means. Honey is real food with as much fructose as HFCS.
yellowcanine
Apr 2016
#100
Uhm, tobacco's downfall started at attempting to cover up the health effects of tobacco...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#260
That would have been just as "lunatic" as claiming global warming was coming, in the 70's and 80's
villager
Apr 2016
#187
I wrote a play about it in the 80's! Even among "edgy" theater folk, they thought it was kind of
villager
Apr 2016
#193
Its a long assed study, how long have we been refining sugar? Few hundred years at least...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#207
Never touch the stuff, never fed it to the kids, and the kids never feed it to the
Zorra
Apr 2016
#234
You know, I'll be honest, it is much healthier to avoid refined sugar, no joke...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2016
#261