Consumerism as religion.
The market as God.
Genetically modified corn starch as the body.
Genetically modified corn syrup as the blood.
Advertising as revealed truth.

Excellent *parody of our time.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'corn syrup, colour, mix, rewind' to 'steve spangler, viscous, corn syrup, food coloring, mix, laminar flow, fluid dynamics' - edited by BoneRemake

As I understand it, none of it really mixed; the 'pockets' created in the thick corn syrup just stretched around as it was cranked, giving it a layered effect that is almost mixed. Then, the reverse crank stuffs the pockets back into an approximation of what it was at the beginning, with the food coloring still contained within.

This recipe is pretty damn good. It does look a bit runny to be practical when filming on the body. I have an easy quick method. Use light maple syrup (not real maple syrup, but that fake sugar water shit from Aunt Jemima). The consistency of the light syrup is already perfect so you don't have to add water to loosen it like you would corn syrup. Then add exactly what he said: red, blue and yellow.

You can use the flat side of a plastic knife to create realistic streaks of blood down hands and faces or whatever else.

My preferred recipe involves boiling down some flour and water, since you end up with a thick liquid that isn't all sticky like the corn syrup recipes.

Sugar is still much more expensive than high fructose corn syrup, and that nasty, hard to digest crap came into being about the same time obesity started trending upwards. Coincidence?

I see that they are trying to get the name changed from "High Fructose Corn Syrup" to "Corn Sugar" too. And have ads on TV stating this crap is no worse for you than real sugar.

>> ^Simple_Man:

I can't say for certain, but I'm think this video will change my life. I've been trying to lose weight for ages, not drinking any coke, doing exercise etc., but I've never realized the prevalence of high fructose corn syrup in all foods. I wrote down those 4 tips that he suggested to losing weight, and I'll repeat them here for those who missed it. I'll certainly stick to it and see if it works.
1. Get rid of all sugared liquids: only water and milk. Fruits are fine, because it contains all the fibers.
2. Eat carbs with fiber, because fibers are awesome. Fibers: Lowers total and LDL cholesterol, reduces risk of heart disease
regulates blood sugar, and speeds the passage of foods through the digestive system
3. Wait 20 mins for second portions, so your satiety response can kick in.
4. Buy your screen time minute-for-minute with physical activity.
Some other points:
-a calorie is not a calorie: you don't do exercise to burn calories, but to increase metabolism
-fructose IS NOT glucose. A large amount of glucose is used by the rest of the body, meaning it burns much quicker. Fructose can only be metabolized in the liver, and it's a volume issue. It means a lot gets turned into fat, and in that process, blocks receptors to generate certain chemicals which tell your body to stop eating, causing a vicious cycle.
-be a fattie or fart a lot (from the fiber). Make your choice.


So, it's been a couple of months. I'm wondering how the changes went?

>> ^blankfist:

And lastly, many items corn-based are not soda products. It is a food that goes into many products---including the making of corn on the cob.

"I think where the danger comes in with corn is that much of the corn grown now in North America is going into making high fructose corn syrup," Dawson says. "So it's not that corn per se is bad, but it's the sweetener made from corn that gets into many of the foods that Americans are probably consuming too much of, and we now see that showing up as obesity and heart disease and potential for type 2 diabetes."

Libertarians like voluntarism? Speak for you and myself maybe, but like religous people, leave out the masses of libertarians who do not like to volunteer.

You said, "...reasonable enough to make choices for themselves..." And then you said, "...I think they knowingly make bad decisions..." Wow, is that insane or what? Reasonable would mean they make bad decisions based on incorrect info but try to make the right choices. Unreasonable means they just f-ing do it regardless.

And lastly, many items corn-based are not soda products. It is a food that goes into many products---including the making of corn on the cob. I would agree with this video 100% if corn only made fucktose corn syrup, as I call it. But corn does not just make fucktose... Still, I agree with this video 95%! I want these bailouts, handouts, or cornjobs to end!

>> ^blankfist:
@<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since April 27th, 2007" href="http://videosift.com/member/chilaxe">chilaxe, Libertarians don't like meritocracy. Libertarians like voluntarism. That is, they want people to do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt others.
I disagree that the masses aren't reasonable enough to make choices for themselves. I think they knowingly make bad decisions because the positive aspects of those decisions are higher than the negatives, or they make bad decisions because of other circumstances like comfort or the notion of getting ahead quickly, etc. Whatever the reason, people don't need an intelligent society designer guiding them. Common sense is enough to tell you breathing smoke isn't particularly healthy.
And cigarettes aren't 100% bad for you. If you mean they are damaging to health, well certainly that's true, but so is metabolizing food as it causes cell damage and just about everything else we do. But cigarettes don't automatically cause diseases like cancer or emphysema, and they don't necessarily cause health problems that require medical attention. In fact a lot of that is probably genetic. This is anecdotal, I know, but my grandmother smoked every day of her life and just recently passed away at 94. She also ate greasy foods probably with loads of trans fats.

"Also, the more controlled society becomes, the more people get uncomfortable with it, so it doesn't seem like the modern world is very likely to experience a slippery slope 50 years down the road based on small increments of increased control that make sense in the present day."

I can't say for certain, but I'm think this video will change my life. I've been trying to lose weight for ages, not drinking any coke, doing exercise etc., but I've never realized the prevalence of high fructose corn syrup in all foods. I wrote down those 4 tips that he suggested to losing weight, and I'll repeat them here for those who missed it. I'll certainly stick to it and see if it works.

1. Get rid of all sugared liquids: only water and milk. Fruits are fine, because it contains all the fibers.

2. Eat carbs with fiber, because fibers are awesome. Fibers: Lowers total and LDL cholesterol, reduces risk of heart disease
regulates blood sugar, and speeds the passage of foods through the digestive system

3. Wait 20 mins for second portions, so your satiety response can kick in.

4. Buy your screen time minute-for-minute with physical activity.

Some other points:

-a calorie is not a calorie: you don't do exercise to burn calories, but to increase metabolism

-fructose IS NOT glucose. A large amount of glucose is used by the rest of the body, meaning it burns much quicker. Fructose can only be metabolized in the liver, and it's a volume issue. It means a lot gets turned into fat, and in that process, blocks receptors to generate certain chemicals which tell your body to stop eating, causing a vicious cycle.

-be a fattie or fart a lot (from the fiber). Make your choice.

Soda sucks. The regular sugary crap is inviting diabetes. The diet crap is asking for metabolic syndrome.

The regular crap sinks because it is essentially a crazy super dense sugar water solution, enough to overcome any little buoyancy that the can may have from trapped air. The co2 bubbles are effectively dissolved in solution until the can is opened. The diet crap floats because it isn't any where near as dense. Not enough to counteract the cans buoyancy. Again for any gas/air trapped.

The typical soda may contain around 44g of sugars. 10 teaspoons. I dare you to try to eat that straight up and not in a solution and see how you feel afterward. Nasty. Actually. These days it is mostly corn syrup. Even worse than processed granulated sugars.

I adore Maangchi and would normally want to eat everything she cooks, and my palate is fairly broad - but dried anchovies with sugar, garlic and corn syrup... um, no.

I get what people are saying about having the kids eat what they would want to eat if it gives them their government regulated proteins and "vegetables" and such, but does that really mean that the only option is all of this pre-processed, industrialized crap? Do we really need to be injecting them with the extra fats, ubiquitous extra corn syrup, and whatever Potasium Hydroxydinitromineglucinate on a (sometimes twice) daily basis?

We can still be producing the foods that they want to eat in a controlled and far healthier manner if we were just willing to put in the money and effort to make it from fresh. Oh, and cut down on our future health care costs in the meantime.

Yeah, you could call Obama a corporatist and I'm sure the republicans would love that. Though, Republicans are mainly the ones who have created this shit monster we have here. They were the OG corporatists - corrupting everything including your grandma's potato salad. I'm sure they love hearing this new vocab word "corporatist" as another word to toss at the "opposing side" and get all high and mighty about Jesus Christ, protesting scientific FACTS, humanist goals, healthcare and letting the top 1% take everything from their pea brained families and everyone elses.

But, one cannot proclaim anyone else is a corporatist unless that person tossing around the term acknowledges that this is NOT a democracy that we live in. It's completely misleading to toss around new "gotcha moments" and not put that out into the open. So, since this is NOT a democracy what difference does it make? If Obama is a corporatist what does that make the Republican party? Megalithic Elephant Testicle Sack Corporate Dingbats & complacent globalist murderers? Seriously, don't even listen to Ron Paul he is a Pro-life, Christian nutcase...

and I cannot even stop with that thought, here is the rest of my rant: everyone in that party needs to shut their huge gaping lie spreading mouths and open up their assholes to receive their nightly $10000000 fistful of cash up into there from good ol' Captain America (Enron, Bechtel, Lockheed, industry lobbyists, the couple of corporate media conglomerates showering the country with bullshit ideas, the insurance companies, big oil, etc etc etc) Open up, piggies! Eat your shit inorganic food, here's some shitty tuna and some shitty fries don't forget to chug it down with some high fructose corn syrup so you can get diabetes, let's watch your brains decay but only after you hand over your wallet to the top 1% who already own everything.