Q. Is high-fructose corn syrup bad for you?

By Joyce Hendley, September/October 2007

Is high-fructose corn syrup bad for you?





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HFCS are plain bad


03/11/2010 - 12:30am

HFCS is bad for you!


03/26/2010 - 5:39pm

Actually, HFCS takes away the feeling of fullness, causing people to eat until they are literally full to satisfy their appetite, and also has several bad effects on the liver. (Both effects have been shown in studies.) Don't be fooled by these new ads claiming it's the same as regular sugar. They're all made by the corn companies in attempt to keep making money off of it.

Of course, it's not the only artificial ingredient hurting our health (no, HFCS is not natural, you have to make it). Most companies will turn to any money-saving alternative (you can look up what they are) without a care for the health of their buyers. (So I guess they're partly right here in that HFCS shouldn't be THE taboo ingrediant.) So there are almost no health smart alternatives to organic foods. This article is right about the fact that you can't be healthy eating too many sweets and not enough healthy food regardless of the ingrediants, but unlike with organic sugars, you take a big step backwards eating HFCS. (It might be okay on special occasions only, but I say go for the newer organic versions of snacks, sodas, ect. They're much better health wise and still taste good.)


03/31/2010 - 4:48pm

high frutose is REALLY BAD for you !!!!!!!!!!


04/04/2010 - 5:09pm

HFCs is like putting gasoline on a fire. Making somthing already bad worse, and this socialist government doesn't give a hoot because they have their heads in their asses of global warming and all. America is going down the drain with the snob, unqualified pig of a president. my advice, move to Australia before Obama locks us all in.


04/07/2010 - 12:44am

Here's a link to the Princeton article: Here is another article where the author of the Princeton report addresses specific questions about HFCS: This sentence is quoted from an EPA comment on HFCS: "The main reasoning for manufacturers to use HFCS as opposed to other sugars is that it is cheaper." citation:

If you put all three articles together you might say that manufacturers use HFCS because its sweeter and people ingest more of the product made with HFCS and it is cheaper to produce so PROFITS are higher........and the manufacturers don't worry about healthcare costs........Cheers.


04/13/2010 - 12:48pm

HFCS is bad...mmkay.

Read the ingredients people, they put HFCS in almost all processed foods. As has been noted HFCS isn't metabolized as easily as sucrose(sugar) so you eat more before you are full. Although we can't blame HFCS for America's obesity problem, it surely has contributed to it.

A few companies that still use sugar in their products:
Langers juices, Ocean Spray, Quaker Oats, Hansen sodas

I have noticed more companies switching to sugar recently, I think consumer outrage is starting to work.


04/13/2010 - 7:31pm

I think that the food is bad


05/04/2010 - 12:13pm

All the HFCS commericials are made by HFCS workers!


05/19/2010 - 6:05pm

high fructose corn syrup CLOGS YOUR VEINS!!


05/20/2010 - 10:50pm

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