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[Disneychick75]

Your ancestors controlled the sugar they used and added to their dishes.

The problem is that sugar or HCFS is added to 80% of the packaged foods Americans buy. This toxic poison that is sugar today is killing our citizens and children. It is why we have the obesity problems we have, it is why 1/3 of all Americans will have diabetes by 2050.

Your first sentence says it all. They controlled it. We can do the same by cooking fresh food and reading labels. You're fear mongering but people here aren't buying it. No one holds a gun to someone's head and makes them buy sodas, cookies, cakes, ketchup, or anything else. You can't blame an industry because some people are too lazy to read a label. It's personal responsibility and if people don't want to look after themselves, that is no one's problem but their own.
We have an obesity problem because people eat too much.

 

[HappyTogether]

Your first sentence says it all. They controlled it. We can do the same by cooking fresh food and reading labels. You're fear mongering but people here aren't buying it. No one holds a gun to someone's head and makes them buy sodas, cookies, cakes, ketchup, or anything else. You can't blame an industry because some people are too lazy to read a label. It's personal responsibility and if people don't want to look after themselves, that is no one's problem but their own.
We have an obesity problem because people eat too much.

Not exactly true. For many it is addiction they cannot control and that is why sugar is a toxic poison.

 

[Disneychick75]

Not exactly true. For many it is addiction they cannot control and that is why sugar is a toxic poison.

Then they should seek help for their addiction. Alcoholics do it, drug addicts do it, sugar addicts should do it too. Some people are addicted to eating paint. Should paint companies be held responsible?

 

[Colleen27]

Your first sentence says it all. They controlled it. We can do the same by cooking fresh food and reading labels. You're fear mongering but people here aren't buying it. No one holds a gun to someone's head and makes them buy sodas, cookies, cakes, ketchup, or anything else. You can't blame an industry because some people are too lazy to read a label. It's personal responsibility and if people don't want to look after themselves, that is no one's problem but their own.
We have an obesity problem because people eat too much.

I think you can, at least to some extent, because companies are banking on that laziness (or habituation). I can't even tell you the number of products I started buying based upon the use of natural sugar over HFCS (or not using artificial dyes, or eliminating MSG, etc) and then discovered at some point later on that they'd changed their formula back to being just like all their chemical-laden competitors. The lack of these things is announced with splashy front-of-label packaging but often endures only long enough to build brand loyalty, because companies' marketing departments know that American shoppers don't read every label, every time they go to the store. If this was being done with allergens it would certainly be a huge uproar - imagine a product being marketed heavily as peanut-free for a period of time, say a year or so, and then quietly and with no fanfare changing to a formula or processing facility that poses a risk of peanut contamination. Customers would be outraged. But because obesity is viewed as solely a lifestyle issue/personal weakness and "clean" eating as a fringe fad, there isn't the same reaction to companies that run commercials boasting their elimination of HFCS as a short-term publicity stunt and then returning to their previous practices.

 

[Disneychick75]

I think you can, at least to some extent, because companies are banking on that laziness (or habituation). I can't even tell you the number of products I started buying based upon the use of natural sugar over HFCS (or not using artificial dyes, or eliminating MSG, etc) and then discovered at some point later on that they'd changed their formula back to being just like all their chemical-laden competitors. The lack of these things is announced with splashy front-of-label packaging but often endures only long enough to build brand loyalty, because companies' marketing departments know that American shoppers don't read every label, every time they go to the store. If this was being done with allergens it would certainly be a huge uproar - imagine a product being marketed heavily as peanut-free for a period of time, say a year or so, and then quietly and with no fanfare changing to a formula or processing facility that poses a risk of peanut contamination. Customers would be outraged. But because obesity is viewed as solely a lifestyle issue/personal weakness and "clean" eating as a fringe fad, there isn't the same reaction to companies that run commercials boasting their elimination of HFCS as a short-term publicity stunt and then returning to their previous practices.

I agree about marketing non HFCS and then reverting. It's why I read the labels of everything I buy. It's also why I hate to grocery shop. I used to buy a week or two of groceries at a time but now I but only for 2-3 days. We have begun buying heirloom gardening seeds in order to avoid GMOs as much as we can too.

 

[Diznygrl]

I think you can, at least to some extent, because companies are banking on that laziness (or habituation). I can't even tell you the number of products I started buying based upon the use of natural sugar over HFCS (or not using artificial dyes, or eliminating MSG, etc) and then discovered at some point later on that they'd changed their formula back to being just like all their chemical-laden competitors. The lack of these things is announced with splashy front-of-label packaging but often endures only long enough to build brand loyalty, because companies' marketing departments know that American shoppers don't read every label, every time they go to the store. If this was being done with allergens it would certainly be a huge uproar - imagine a product being marketed heavily as peanut-free for a period of time, say a year or so, and then quietly and with no fanfare changing to a formula or processing facility that poses a risk of peanut contamination. Customers would be outraged. But because obesity is viewed as solely a lifestyle issue/personal weakness and "clean" eating as a fringe fad, there isn't the same reaction to companies that run commercials boasting their elimination of HFCS as a short-term publicity stunt and then returning to their previous practices.

Yeah, Hunt's ketchup made me mad with this. I decided to start buying Hunt's instead of Heinz because Hunt's didn't use HFCS. They were vey proud of this fact, displaying it loud and proud on the front of their bottle. Then one day I went to buy some ketchup, and I notice that the bottle no longer says, "No high fructose corn syrup!", now it says, "No preservatives!". So I looked at the ingredients, and sure enough...HFCS. Then a couple weeks later, I notice that alongside the "no preservatives!" Hunt's, they now have an "all natural" Hunt's, which has real sugar, and of course costs more.

 

[Art 1]

Yeah, Hunt's ketchup made me mad with this. I decided to start buying Hunt's instead of Heinz because Hunt's didn't use HFCS. They were vey proud of this fact, displaying it loud and proud on the front of their bottle. Then one day I went to buy some ketchup, and I notice that the bottle no longer says, "No high fructose corn syrup!", now it says, "No preservatives!". So I looked at the ingredients, and sure enough...HFCS. Then a couple weeks later, I notice that alongside the "no preservatives!" Hunt's, they now have an "all natural" Hunt's, which has real sugar, and of course costs more.

Yes, but that Hunts ketchup is so good, I think it's the one now they use at WDW as it taste so good, and sweet. Glad to see WDW dump Heinz.

I quit buying Heinz products years ago but for other reasons.

 

[Colleen27]

Yeah, Hunt's ketchup made me mad with this. I decided to start buying Hunt's instead of Heinz because Hunt's didn't use HFCS. They were vey proud of this fact, displaying it loud and proud on the front of their bottle. Then one day I went to buy some ketchup, and I notice that the bottle no longer says, "No high fructose corn syrup!", now it says, "No preservatives!". So I looked at the ingredients, and sure enough...HFCS. Then a couple weeks later, I notice that alongside the "no preservatives!" Hunt's, they now have an "all natural" Hunt's, which has real sugar, and of course costs more.

The "all natural" label is another one that drives me crazy. There's no enforceable standard for using the word natural on a label, so just because a product is "all natural" doesn't mean that it has no HFCS. After all, HFCS comes from corn so it is "natural".

Of course, depending on your views real sugar may or may not be much better. The Farm Bill gives preferential treatment to the domestic sugar industry in general and beet sugar in particular, imposing tariffs on imported sugar (most cane sugar) so real sugar in most processed foods is GMO beet sugar.

 

[mom2rtk]

Not exactly true. For many it is addiction they cannot control and that is why sugar is a toxic poison.

Total bunk.

 

[holycow]

There is a study I am looking for and can't find right now but I did find this.

I guess it will matter what you find as a valid source or not.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/eating-mindfully/201204/sugar-addiction

 

[Planogirl]

There is a study I am looking for and can't find right now but I did find this.

I guess it will matter what you find as a valid source or not.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/eating-mindfully/201204/sugar-addiction

That individual's opinion piece doesn't even advocate cutting out all sugar. I can accept that sugar CAN be addictive but I still don't believe that it's toxic. I'm not talking about HFCS but "real" sugar.

 

[HappyTogether]

I am convinced sugar is toxic and have seen improvements in my life by removing it from food entirely!

 

[NHdisneylover]

I am convinced sugar is toxic and have seen improvements in my life by removing it from food entirely!

I am curious--did you try limiting it to only pure cane sugar and only in reasonable amounts to see if that created an improvement also--or did you just go straight from a "typical" american diet to a no sugar at all one?

 

[EMAW_KSU]

I am convinced sugar is toxic and have seen improvements in my life by removing it from food entirely!

What do you eat?

 

[LilyWDW]

I am convinced sugar is toxic and have seen improvements in my life by removing it from food entirely!

I find it hard to believe you have removed all sugar from your diet...

Also, do you have any scientifically backed studies that support your claims?

 

[EMode]

I am convinced sugar is toxic and have seen improvements in my life by removing it from food entirely!

Curious by what you mean when you say improvements?

 

[sukhakuli]

I am convinced sugar is toxic and have seen improvements in my life by removing it from food entirely!

Do you realize your body makes its own sugar, that is chemically identical to regular sugar? That your brain runs on glucose alone? Your body is a toxic sugar making machine!

Watch out for dihydrogen monoxide, too! It's everywhere.

 

[jenben8426]

I am convinced sugar is toxic and have seen improvements in my life by removing it from food entirely!

Wait, so you don't eat fruit anymore?? There is sugar in fruit. Different types of sugars (fructose, etc) are found naturally in a lot of things. To give them all up would be incredibly bad for your body as your body does need some. I think when people say they have gotten rid of sugar completely that isn't quite true. One of my good friends says this all the time. Then she uses another plant based sweetener that is supposedly the most healthy thing ever. I can't wait for another 10 years to pass and then all these "new and amazingly healthy" sweeteners become the next "toxic" thing.

 

[HappyTogether]

I find it hard to believe you have removed all sugar from your diet...

Also, do you have any scientifically backed studies that support your claims?

Yes I do.

 

[Allison]

I am curious--did you try limiting it to only pure cane sugar and only in reasonable amounts to see if that created an improvement also--or did you just go straight from a "typical" american diet to a no sugar at all one?

The OP just did a "cleanse" of sugar a few weeks ago. It appears they are less than a month into this new diet and still in the extremist stage.