steelmania75 (503 posts) Tue Aug-11-09 08:36 PM
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Remove high-fructose corn syrup from our food
Obesity is another huge problem in America...
Here's some stats from American Sports Data:
-Between 1962 and the year 2000, the number of obese Americans grew from 13% to an alarming 31% of the population.
-63% of Americans are overweight with a Body Mass Index (BMI) in excess of 25.0.
-Childhood obesity in the United States has more than tripled in the past two decades.
This is a bad economy, and the food companies are turning our fear into nervous eating.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6279984All DUmmies hate high fructose corn syrup, but not one DUmmy knows why, so I will explain:
American companies use it. Nearly all American companies are run by Republicans.
Every one of those Republicans owns more stuff than any of the DUmmies.
So high fructose corn syrup is bad.
ananda (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 08:39 PM
2. Thank you!
Corn is the bane of our existence these days.
It's everywhere, and much of it is gm.
Genetically modified plants are a subset of high fructose corn syrup. Even though they make
it possible for us to continue feeding the exploding populations in the trashy slum countries
of the world that democrats adore, they are bad for the same reason as HFCS. They were
invented by American companies, run by Republicans, who own more stuff than the DUmmies.
madeline_con (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 08:42 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. Yes, it's someone else's fault I'm fat! n/t
abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 08:56 PM
Blah, blah blah.....
Food companies operating for profit cannot afford to care about the health of their customers.
(Even The Economist questioned the wisdom of for profit food production -- noting that
capitalism has led to obesity everywhere it has spread.)
The Economist made one accurate observation. In capitalist countries there is normally an
abundance of affordable food. In all other countries, hunger is common.
I'm not sure that a ban is best, but nationalizing the whole food chain might not be a bad
solution.
This DUmmy has stumbled onto The Obama Solution. Nationalizing the food chain would
almost certainly put an end to obesity.
MineralMan (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 08:59 PM
17. I leave people to make such decisions for themselves.
One needn't eat anything one doesn't want to eat. Everything is labeled. Our literacy rate in the USA is quite high.
Eating food you prepare yourself makes it all so simple. You control the ingredients as you please. It's lots cheaper, too. There are also many prepared foods without undesirable ingredients. Once can choose those.
You want to choose for others. No, thank you very much.
DUmmy MineralMan is risking a tombstone by unwittingly making an argument against
the Kenyan's socialized medicine plan.
abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 09:07 PM
Blah, blah, communist blah...
I don't think that food, in the age of mass capitalism, should be left entirely to private forces. It is not a fair fight between intelligent, healthful and self-interested choice by the consumer and manipulative, profit-enhancing marketing by the producers.
The Kenyan would probably prefer that we adopt the African model of food production and
distribution. I saw pictures of all those Hutus, and all those Tutsis they were chopping up,
and none of them were fat. No matter which side the Kenyan was on, they were fit and trim.
paulsby (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 09:11 PM
27. that's why their is mandatory labeling
something i heartily support. fwiw, i CHOOSE to eat metric assloads of meat- for performance, for quality of life, and for health. that's my choice. stop trying to limit MY choice. ......**** govt stepping in and limiting my choices, or telling businesses what foods they can and can't sell.
DUmmy paulsby is likewise risking the granite pizza. Limiting your choices and dictating to business is the heart and soul of dem policy and the Kenyan's platform.
panader0 (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 08:50 PM
10. I quit drinking beer recently and started buying juices
Almost everything, except the real expensive stuff has HFCS. All sodas do too. The diet ones have Asparteme or Splenda, arguablby worse than HFCS. 12 ozs of cranberry juice has 180 calories, my light beer had 104. Now where did I put that six-pack?
Yes, Aspartame and Splenda are also evil. They were also invented by companies run by Republicans who own more stuff than any DUmmy.
Now, weight gain or loss is a simple matter of arithmetic, comparing the number of calories burned vs. the number of calories eaten. But for DUmmies, it has a very political component as well.
Avalux (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 08:41 PM
4. Agree. It's difficult, but I don't buy anything containing HFCS.
Most people don't pay any attention though and keep ingesting the nasty stuff. Instead of banning it, people should just quit buying it.
Easier said than done though.
I would very much like to hear DUmmy Avalux explain what it is about high fructose corn syrup that is "nasty".
She has always been told by "progressives" that it's nasty, but I'm willing to bet she doesn't know that it's really nasty
because of being used by companies run by Republicans who own more stuff than any of those "progressives".
randr (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-11-09 09:10 PM
23. HFCS is a Monsanto product
and consumes enormous amounts of water and petro chemicals to produce.
It is responsible for a sizable amount of CO2 emissions as well.
Uh oh, now Algore will be on their case. Cap 'n' trade will stop the sweetness.
