HAHA this is great. YDJ is right about the south. I grew up in S.C. and EVERYONE drank Mt. Dew. After school we stopped by the little Ma and Pop ran store to buy a comicbook and Mt. Dew. Yeahhhh.... we'd dig down in the fridge to find one w/ ice in it, and if you looked hard enough you could find one of the old style bottles w/ the hillbillies w/ guns on them. (for all you kiddies out there...all sodas were in bottles )
Even today when we all know better than to give our kids all this crap, kids in my hometown drink Mt Dew by the gallons. I heard that there is an additive in the yellow drink that makes the flavor linger in the mouth longer to make the drinker want more. That additive adheres to the teeth over time staining them. The dentist said he could always tell if the kid is a Mt. Dew drinker. Gross huh?

I would like to add that soda back in the days of this ad above did use real cane sugar and not high fructose corn syrup, so I bet it tasted better. High Fructose corn syrup is an evil substance that should be obliterated from public use.

I'm not advocating soda...just reminiscing I'm sooooo glad I'm out of the south

that would suck if you forgot and grabbed the wrong coke out the fridge the next morning:

"Q3: Describe the plot exposition leading to the demise of protagonist's father.
A: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavors, Caffeine, Potassium Benzoate, Citric Acid."

They always want you to eat it as part of a "balanced meal."

Toast (refined white bread), butter (grease), orange juice (mostly high-fructose corn syrup), and milk (cow pus).

I used to love it, too....

Upvote for cloudy background. Wonder why she chose this picture, considering the message..

My message would be:
-avoid warm food for breakfast/lunch
-avoid fried food, when you want to prepare it -use fresh healthy oil
-eat whole wheat bread for breakfast/lunch (bake it yourself to avoid the additives)
-cut down your amount (100 gr./person is just fine) and frequency of (fish)meat for dinner and often replace it with cheese/eggs/soya-products/beans/nuts
-eat your daily fruit&veggies (veggies unlimited, not too many fruit because of fructose)
-avoid salt, sugar, bad fat, msg (vetsin) and other additives that are part of the nutritionism hype.
-take good fat (e.g. extra virgine olive oil)
-drink tea/water

Oh swampgirl.....that nicey-nice is sooooo sweet! High Fructose Corn.....

What's unnatural about high-fructose corn-shapes??? Ewwww, rougy, do you eat those black and orange wrappered Halloween candies or circus peanuts, too???
*nsfw

Yeah, up vote from the hip here as well, she's grade-A Soyflake......What works with your kids???/Give them healthy food-they eat it-no questions asked. They whine, it's not cause of anything, except, YOU did something wrong, raising yer kids, to have to be trying something new and healthy on them, after grooming the little hummingbirds on high-fructose corn syrup, and packaged, Lazymom brand crap.

The real problem is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It's new like fast food places (introduced in the 80's) but far more difficult to avoid. Almost all drinks consist of water, HFCS, and a flavoring chemical. Most of the "healthy all natural fruit juice drinks" advertised have "Contains 10% juice" (or sometimes even 0% juice) written in tiny writing on the back.

Unhealthy drinks and food are also much cheaper then the high priced real stuff so many poor people can't afford to live healthy (especially when you work 2 low wage jobs and don't have time or energy to cook your own meals).

....and a skull and crossbones on anything containing refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and political editorials.

"Simple sugars include sucrose, fructose, glucose, galactose, maltose, lactose and mannose."

Disaccharides
sucrose = glucose + fructose
lactose = glucose + galactose
maltose = glucose + glucose

Simple Carbohydrate Sources
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Sucrose - Table sugar, brown sugar, confectioners sugar, raw sugar and turbinado
Glucose - Dextrose, corn syrup and glucose syrup or tablets
Fructose – Honey, fruits and vegetables
Lactose - Milk products
Maltose, Dextrose – Cereals, flour and many baked goods
Alcohol Sugars - Sorbitol, mannitol, xybitol

Complex Carbohydrate Sources
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Insoluble Fiber - Wheat bran, cabbage, beets, carrots, brussel sprouts, turnips, cauliflower and apple skin (pectin)
Soluble Fiber -: oat bran, oats, legumes (beans), citrus fruits, strawberries, apple pulp, psyllium, rice bran and barley
Starches - Flour, bread, rice, corn, oats, barley, potatoes, carrots, corn, legumes, fruits and vegetables.


HFCS is getting a bad name. You'll start seeing P&G and our chemical manufactured food overlords switching to other things, like galactose.

Diabetes is the fifth deadliest disease in the United States. High blood sugar is among the most costly health problems in America. Health care and other costs directly related to diabetes treatment, and the cost of lost productivity, are $98 billion annually. Forget Big Tabacco, Big Sugar will be the next target for class actions

Yes, sucrose is di-saccharide, but is chemically bonded glucose and fructose. HFCS is a chemical product of a vat of some corn byproduct and enzymes to either convert glucose, or strip apart natural sucrose. But HFCS just means high fructose content and it is a liquid, so we're comparing dry sugar by weight (and it absorbs moisture) to liquid HFCS..

Wikipedia:

Common commercial grades of high fructose corn syrup include fructose contents of 42%, 55%, or 90%. The 55% grade is most commonly used in soft drinks and equivalent to caster sugar.

Unlike sucrose, HFCS consists of a mixture of glucose and fructose, which doesn't require an enzymatic step to break it down before absorption in the intestine.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Sucrose is basically glucose and fructose. If in the video, the 39g of sucrose were equal to aprox. 8 teaspoons, then the amount of HFCS will be between 12 and 15 teaspoons in a 12 oz can?

well except that NO soda actually contains table sugar (sucrose).
They all have tons of high fructose corn syrup. (the exception is Coke put out during Passover)

Yeah, it's just that you are too lazy. So lazy, you buy processed food instead of stuff that looks like it had grown in a field.

Eat whatever you want. Nothing wrong with engineered foods, olestra, poly-unsaturated fats, processed starches, simple sugars. I mean it's not like companies would hurt their customers. There is nothing wrong with 'natural additives' they are natural after all. Sure, you'd have a hard time in nature making fructose half of you sugar in take, but IT IS your fault for not exercising enough to make up for your screwed up metabolism from processed sugars the spike your insulin levels.

It's not like diabetes wouldn't be showing up like mad, if these food did NOT mess with your insulin levels. But you're right, those bastards never exercised. Lazy fucks.

Agreed lordnull. The situation which he describes is not too far from where we currently find ourselves, and it is far too complicated to be boiled down to "tv is evil." It is not a situation or dynamic lends itself to simplification.

The point, however, I believe, is about learning to think for oneself and develop a critical mind capable of rational thought and independed decision-making. And how such thought is antithetical to large corporations. And how when the means of media creation and promotion are controlled by large corporations, it is in their interest not to encourage independent critical thought, but rather ... entertainment, soothing mind-numbing entertainment, or whatever the mass of consumers will buy the most of. Thinking can be hard work, and that is not what motivates people to turn on the tv, sit on the sofa, eat chips and drink high-fructose corn-syrup carbonated caffeinated sugar-free cola drinks.