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Lilliepop

Lilliepop

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Hello. My Doctor told me to look out for high corn frutose sugar and to stay away from it. She really doesent have much of an opinion on anything so was surprise. She said its very bad for everyone but especially for diabetics. It's in everything in the US not so bad over here. But can put on packets as other names, I cook everything from scrach. But now and again will eat a cake or shop bought biscuit and that is the sort of things it's in. Has anyone else read anything about it?
 
Yes, the GP is right HFCS is bad for you and is very prevalent in the USA. Read the labels and avoid it where you can. The fructose is laid down as internal fat in the body
 
ive never heard of it, is it listed on labels as HFCS or does it go under other names please?
 
Andy... It's extensively used in coke , Pepsi, soft &energy drinks, and ready made foods. It here in the uk. I posted a video of a lecture on hfcs. It's labelled as fructose or sugar... Loads of it. It's much cheaper and sweater than sugar. That's how they can supersize coke and Pepsi at any outlet and still make massive profits. It is a poison.


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Andy12345 said:
ive never heard of it, is it listed on labels as HFCS or does it go under other names please?
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It's normally labelled as fructose here.

It doesn't spike bs as much as normal sugar, so was though good for diabetics.
It was sold as the healthy option overall, as it came from fruits, not sugar beet or cane.
Problem is the way it's digested, and you more you eat the worse it gets for your body.
Normal amounts in fruit aren't bad, but it's now produced as a cheap "sugar" from corn, so the market is being flooded with it, instead of sugar.
(The day has come when tate and lyle can claim to be healthy).

If you avoid carbs, you won't have a run in with it.
If at least you avoid sugar you should be ok, but the danger is it's labelled fructose, which is from a fruit, and "healthy".

Even my fruit yoghurt has fructose in, I know enough to guess the numbers are about right for the fruit, but if they up it artificially, a lot of people wouldn't, they' would be on "healthy" fruit yoghurt, with no added sugar, it's just concentrated from the fruit, but possibly worse for them.
 
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