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i always thought the difference had to do with nutrition, not calories. hf corn syrup was processed more or something. but no one really cares about how nutritious their food is, only if it's going to make them look "bad".

HFCS is poison.

We here in the US need FAR less sugar than we ingest. It causes all sorts of health problems just as-is, so there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to eat HFCS.

for someone who cannot taste the difference, this just sounds like smart marketing.

corn subsidies are stupid though.

and drinking too much soda, either with syrup or sugar will be bad for you.

I quit drinking soda entirely when I started working from home. When I was working elsewhere, it just seemed natural to get a soda with lunch, and I'd usually have some available at home. Considering how much soda I used to drink when I was a teenager, and how many years I consumed that stuff, it's interesting that I don't crave it at all. Now, it's pretty much lost all of its appeal -- it's just too darned sweet.

Funny thing is that if you aren't a soda drinker, sometimes your options are slim. I go to a weekly meeting where lunch is brought in and cans of soda are always available, but there aren't other options. No bottled water, no ice tea, no coffee. There's tap water, but drinking vessels may or may not be around. I bring my own beverage of choice. But if other people wanted something else, they'd have no choices once they sat down at the meeting -- no one wants to be the picky one who needs a special drink, so everyone grabs a soda.

And I know plenty of people who want to lose weight, but just can't give up the sodas, and they say just that. They can't give it up.

I am living proof tha high fructose corn syrup is detrimental to your health. I found out from a visit to a naturopathic holistic doctor that I have a systemic candida infection brough on by too much sugar such as high fructose corn syrup. I ate the regular SAD diet (Standard American Diet) Everything in a regular supermarket has added sugar or HFCS. Juice drinks, yogurt, ketchup, relish, salt, cereals, bread, muffin mixes, deli meats. In fact there is probably a very small percentage of foods in a regular grocery store that does not have some type of added sugar in it. So anyway I have developed 26 food allergies due to the candida. I'm most allergic to (surprise) SUGAR and wheat. So I have been on a no sugar wheat diet for almost 6 months and am finally getting better. I have to shop at Whole Foods becuase it is the only supermarket that does not have extra sugar and HFCS put into everything. I also found out I am now hypoglycemic from too much sugar. For the last ten years before I knew what was causing my illnesses I had, rashes, brain fog, irritability, painful digestive disturbances, muscle and joint pain. Then I developed severe depression, yeast infections, shingles, severe anemia, and rotator cuff problems (shoulder) due to a compromised immune system. I go to physical therapy three times a week which is extremely painful. I am getting better but I believe all my symptoms were due to my excessive sugar intake and getting candida from it. Regular doctors do not even recognize candida. They kept just shoving antindepressants down my throat and told me to ignore the rash I had under my breast for 8 years. I am weaning my self off of antidepressants now that I am getting rid of my candida infection. I am on many natural supplements that help. I owe my life to my holistic doctor and to books that I have read about nutrition and health and the SAD diet. I have written conagra about this and they sent me a public relations message saying how wonderful HFCS was and that all the bad press they get about it is untrue yada yada yada. He also sent me information on diabetes. I do not have diabetes so why did he send me the link? I wrote the guy back and asked how he could in good conscience work at his job. It is so immoral to spread lies when people's health is so compromised by what they put into our foods.