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MattBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 12:47 PM
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9. Stop the subsidies for corn and let farmers grow cane sugar
That would allow people to buy what they want.

As a diabetic I will continue to use that other toxic swill known as sucralose.
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  -HFCS and sugars of all types: The dose makes the poison HuckleB  Sep-14-10 12:28 PM   #0 
  - I wish they'd ban it for one simple reason;  Codeine   Sep-14-10 12:31 PM   #1 
  - I'm skinny and diabetic.  TNDemo   Sep-14-10 12:40 PM   #4 
     - Loki.  Codeine   Sep-14-10 12:46 PM   #8 
        - Damn Loki.  TNDemo   Sep-14-10 12:55 PM   #14 
        - Wow  salvorhardin   Sep-14-10 05:57 PM   #35 
  - Good information. Thanks for posting the facts.  MineralMan   Sep-14-10 12:32 PM   #2 
  - My guess is this will just be ignored and unrecced to an early archive.  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 12:37 PM   #3 
  - The problem is  Mz Pip   Sep-14-10 12:40 PM   #5 
  - I don't see how that's a problem at all.  HiFructosePronSyrup   Sep-14-10 12:41 PM   #6 
  - Bingo. When the market demands it, the producers will comply  mjane   Sep-14-10 03:41 PM   #34 
  - It's a merry-go-round that doesn't stop, it seems.  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 12:42 PM   #7 
  - "If manufacturers switch to cane sugar it would be the same result"  trotsky   Sep-14-10 12:50 PM   #11 
  - If you can't buy it without, make it without?  BadgerKid   Sep-14-10 01:01 PM   #17 
  - I do.  Mz Pip   Sep-14-10 01:05 PM   #18 
     - A dash of vinegar added to that  Codeine   Sep-14-10 01:23 PM   #22 
  - Some dressings have a strong sweet note. That comes from  MineralMan   Sep-14-10 01:46 PM   #26 
  - Stop the subsidies for corn and let farmers grow cane sugar  MattBaggins   Sep-14-10 12:47 PM   #9 
  - How well does sugar cane grow in the midwest?  HiFructosePronSyrup   Sep-14-10 12:48 PM   #10 
     - Why didn't anyone think of this before?!  Codeine   Sep-14-10 12:50 PM   #12 
     - Must be a mid-western smart ass.  MattBaggins   Sep-14-10 01:01 PM   #16 
        - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-14-10 01:07 PM   #19 
        - Just a generic smartass, actually. nt  Codeine   Sep-14-10 01:24 PM   #23 
     - Not well at all  MattBaggins   Sep-14-10 12:58 PM   #15 
     - Very well, except we call it "sugar beets" up here.  qb   Sep-14-10 01:55 PM   #28 
        - Beet sugar smells like dirty feet.  Codeine   Sep-14-10 01:56 PM   #29 
           - Are you referring to unrefined beet sugar?  qb   Sep-14-10 02:25 PM   #30 
              - Don't worry, no one can - because they're the same.  trotsky   Sep-15-10 06:30 AM   #41 
  - Thank you for this.  trotsky   Sep-14-10 12:54 PM   #13 
  - You're welcome, and you're exactly right. -eom-  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 01:36 PM   #25 
  - Does anybody know what this toxic concoction looks like.  Skink   Sep-14-10 01:14 PM   #20 
  - Looks just like regular corn syrup.  Codeine   Sep-14-10 01:27 PM   #24 
  - to me the biggest problem on HFCS is the farming of it  stuntcat   Sep-14-10 01:18 PM   #21 
  - I have a different theory. We have become a much more sedentary  OHdem10   Sep-14-10 01:47 PM   #27 
  - And into the dungeon we go!!!  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 02:36 PM   #31 
  - Paging Dr Pullen....  Abq_Sarah   Sep-14-10 02:55 PM   #32 
  - The breaking down of sucrose happens in the stomach.  trotsky   Sep-14-10 03:07 PM   #33 
  - Of late, I've been saying the body makes HFCS. It *really* irritates people.  salvorhardin   Sep-14-10 06:01 PM   #36 
  - I'd take the next sentence as a restating of the one you quote.  Igel   Sep-14-10 09:32 PM   #38 
  - Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds  lib_wit_it   Sep-14-10 06:46 PM   #37 
  - There's not a difference for you.  Igel   Sep-14-10 09:40 PM   #39 
     - Just a nitpick correction in your post...  trotsky   Sep-15-10 06:29 AM   #40 
  - I agree  Dorian Gray   Sep-15-10 06:43 AM   #42 
  - Indeed. -eom-  HuckleB   Sep-15-10 05:47 PM   #43 
  - OK- Good article - but I'm still avoiding products with HFCS.  GoneOffShore   Sep-15-10 07:31 PM   #44 
  - Well, it's basically good practice to do so.  HuckleB   Sep-15-10 08:35 PM   #45 
  - leaps tall buildings in a single bound, and unties women from railroad tracks.  Crunchy Frog   Sep-16-10 10:22 PM   #46 
  - Kick for accuracy.  HuckleB   Oct-19-10 01:30 PM   #47 
 

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