High-fructose corn syrup fueling obesity epidemic, doctors say

By Carolyn Poirothttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2002658491_healthsyrup04.html

FORT WORTH, Texas — High-fructose corn syrup isn't completely responsible for the nation's 6 million overweight children — but Dr. George Bray says it's a big part of the problem.

Nurture trumps nature in the current childhood-obesity epidemic, says Bray. It's the environment we're creating for our kids that's the problem, and that environment includes increasing numbers of products high in high-fructose corn syrup, or HFCS.

Bray, who served as founding president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and organized the first international congress on obesity in 1973, points out that between 1970 (when HFCS was introduced) and 2000 (when average yearly consumption of the ultra-sweet liquid sugar hit 73.5 pounds per person in this country), the prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population.

And worse, much worse, obesity among children 12 to 19 — who consume a disproportionate amount of the soft drinks, fruit juice, sports drinks and packaged cookies and other baked goods that are sweetened with HFCS — increased from 4.2 percent in 1970 to 15.3 percent in 2000.

those boxes of evil keep kids from socializing, keeps them indoors, keeps them from moving around/exercising... they just want to tell their budz they got 5 million points by defeating the Oogie from Jungar or whatever the frig the mission of the game is... :crazy:

There is no good that comes out of these things.

Then you have dipshit parents trampling over each other like starved jackals buying these things; which in turn will be discarded anywhere between 6 and 24 months later...

Lovely society we've got. Separate and kill. That's what the plastic fantastic lover does.

They hop around on it, doing dancing, snowboarding, and all sorts of games with the XBOX, Playstation and this little video camera that puts them in the picture. They can work up a sweat without ever leaving the house, and they enjoy it too.

of video game I'd get my kids. I have the Dance Dance Revolution game which is actually very active- I am in moderately good shape, walk a couple miles a day because I have no car, and I can work up a decent sweat doing it.
If you are looking for a video game that isn't sedentary, Dance Dance Revolution is pretty good.

Okay I just sounded like a big fat commercial.
Sorry.

And some snowboarding one, and they want another one as well. Easier to let them go pick it out than screw up and get the wrong one!

there was a snowboarding one. I like the dancing one because I can jump around like a fool in the privacy of my own home :)

and considering how concentrated the fructose is, I don't think the kids can exercise enough to get rid of it.

The food pushers will make sure they always have there low cost corn even if it creates a diabetes epidemic.

Coca Cola corp by aiming their products squarely at the kiddie market?

Kiddies for being trained to have the same thing their peers have, rather than allowing for individuality? (aka the 'pied piper' or 'psycho lemming' syndrome)

Both?

Let them drink cake and piss on those who don't follow them.

The victims won't die of coronary failure in the end. And to outlive your enemy is the best thing anyone can do.

Messing with economics is like messing with ecology. You don't know what sort of whirlwind you'll reap.

you are one the extremely rare people with a true metabolism disorder, and that is extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemly rare although many overweight people like to think they are not in charge of their own calorie consumption.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/chinamart.htm

PS - drinking a diet coke will not cancel the calories from a hot fudge sundae

in part because we don't really understand metabolism at all, and in part because the body is incredibly effective at preserving calories. Endocrinologists are starting to understand adrenal failure, hypercortisolism, and about 30 other metabolic disorders that are hard to diagnose and harder to treat (and tend to have a lot to do with stress...)

In several clinical studies I've been reading, even so called sensible diets only allow the overweight and obese to maintain weight (or in some cases gain more slowly) because the starvation metabolism kicks in, or other stress factors disrupt the metabolic balance. So the clinical study group who are consuming 1700 to 2200 calories a day are just hanging out, not losing weight the way they were supposed to.

There's a decent layman's lecture series on UCTV's website called something about Understanding Obesity that goes into the whole hormonal side of metabolism that we're just starting to understand.

I'd have to say one way to get one's metabolism going to be more physical. One need not be an athelete just take a daily walk or some other physical activity.

Also eat more often with smaller portions. I do 5 times a day. But be smart about what you eat. Eat fewer processed foods, more whole grains anf more fruits and vegetables.

And no. French fries, baked potatoes drenched with butter or salads drenched with dressing are not very good vegetable choices.

...one form of diabetes formerly found most often in ADULTS with obesity problems.

People should stop taking in the junk food and over-processed goodies! Start cooking REAL home-made food (or eat at places that make 'em), preferably with organic ingredients, and throw away the artificial sweeteners, while you're at it!

The powerful corn growers' lobby has a lot to do with this, too, to be sure, as mentioned earlier.

Not if the giant food pushers have their way. They are co-opting the Organic label and not even the so called dem party cares.

that pissed everyone off this morning, I guess the truth hurts some more than others.
Not my problem some people call what I am saying doom 'n' gloom. Optimism can border on delusional in some "environmentalists"sometimes.I think the Earth is dying and there is no way we can fix it for now.
The top scientists warned us about this shit years ago,and we did not listen to them,the warnings were dire..So we did not reign in industries and corporations and restrict the shit out of them,no too many people bought into reaganomics and later the internet boom..Long ago like us, our parents chose to do nothing,and now we pay for the lack of concern our parents had and those after us will suffer for our passive attitudes passed on.Eat all organic take 40 pills of supplements and colon cleanse religiously avoid HFCS and buy an air filter for every room. You still are living in a contaminated world.
Sure be cautious about what you eat ect.. if it helps you..but do not be paranoid about it the stress will kill you..I feel the damage is done.
Disagree if you want to.
But for me the time of we can do it optimism for"saving the environment was over in the 70's.When Carter gave us the warning about oil in his State of the Union speech that tanked his career.

One of my goals for the New Year, now that I've finished my master's, gotten a job, and gotten married, is to eat more whole foods on a regular basis. It is nigh impossible to find a processed food that does not include HCFS.

imbalance of fatty acids is major factor in ADHD, diabetes, etc.