The article is from 2009 so it's old news, but damn. Not that the food that I consume isnt full of dangerous stuff like that already, but I'm glad we haven't switched to HFCS in Europe http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01831.html
In the U.S., HFCS is among the sweeteners that have primarily replaced sucrose (table sugar) in the food industry. Factors for this include governmental production quotas of domestic sugar, subsidies of U.S. corn, and an import tariff on foreign sugar; all of which combine to raise the price of sucrose to levels above those of the rest of the world, making HFCS less costly for many sweetener applications. Critics of the extensive use of HFCS in food sweetening argue that the highly processed substance is more harmful to humans than regular sugar, contributing to weight gain by affecting normal appetite functions,[8] and that in some foods HFCS may be a source of mercury, a known neurotoxin
- wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
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Bah, I played with mercury in my hand all the time when I was little. You put it in your mouth for toothaches. Its not all that bad for you. Hell, everybody needs to toughen up.
But, to be serious, I don't think its that big of a deal.
Forlorn Drifter wrote:
But, to be serious, I don't think its that big of a deal.
It's not really a big deal when you get a small dose of a neurotoxin/chemical/whatever like that, but just like smoking, it adds up over the years. It's especially the children that we should be worried about, as these things can have any effects ranging from autism to homosexuality (http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_ne ... 243902.stm). We have eaten ”industrial food” only for 50-60 years or so but we are already starting to see it's consequences ranging from diabetes to cancer.
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I'm not saying mercury is definitely in HFCS, but, soooo many more people get cancer these days then 50-100 years ago. I wonder why.
Mercury is poison. Such small doses might not kill you, but it's still poison so it's still harmful to you. It is a big deal even if it's just a little bit, it stays inside of you. Too bad it's used in a lot of things like pesticides, inoculations, and fillers for cavities.
Hehe, yeah, I saw the Radium Girls on a History channel or Discovery channel documentary. I think it was on how unsafe labor was back in the day. Didn't they glow in the dark? Because the paint or whatever they were putting on the watches was meant to glow. edit: Just read the wiki page, I think I remember now. They painted it on their teeth and whatnot. IIRC, there was some video footage of them with their teeth glowing in the dark.
I don't doubt that a lot of cancer deaths back when were written off as unexplained or "natural causes," but I really refuse to believe that there aren't more cancer deaths now more than ever. We just live in a cancer creating world, a lot of new technologies that never existed. Though you raise a good point, Hobie, there were far less precautions back when. Perhaps a lot of preventable cancer situations have occurred.
