Reply #27: High Fructose Corn Syrup [View All]

[Lurking Dem]

is a nightmare. I refer to it as "death by Con Agra". It's in everything - even canned soup! Why in G-d's name does anyone need corn syrup in their soup?

I have been considering some of the eating habits of the people around me. It's amazing to me what people eat and I often wondered if nearly 30 years of type 1 had skewed my perceptions since I look at food so differently and have in the past suffered, as many type 1's do, from an eating disorder.

But now I'm wondering if the hyperinsulinemia doesn't cause intense cravings? Maybe turns off the "off switch"? And a large part is societal. I remember (dating myself) when Quarter Pounders with Cheese came out on the market and we all talked about how HUGE they were. Now it's super size, double meat, triple meat, pound of bacon on that eating.

Then there is our medical understanding of metabolism which appears to be somewhere approaching nil. My Chinese doctor says that ALL medications effect your metabolic rate in a negative fashion. And we now give people pills for everything! Like being shy!

Seeing 40, 50, 60 pound toddlers on tv does give one pause for thought.