Originally Posted by irishrose
Lynne, I wanted a Coke so bad when I was shopping and I was 'blaming' you. I picked one up, saw the second ingredient after water was high fructose corn syrup and put it back. Then I put back the frozen yogurt I'd picked up to make a Coke float.
Hey, Pam, here's a good first taboo - High Fructose Corn Syrup as an ingredient. Not a healthy food and in so much of what's available out there.
You go right ahead and blame me sweetie. My shoulders are broad. But YOU get the credit for making the good choice!
I know I wrote in an earlier month about HFCS (51% fructose/49% glucose) and my cholesterol, but when I quit drinking ALL soda, my blood lipid levels became textbook wonderful. I had read of an interesting study done by Harvard that proved HFCS settles as fat in the abdomen/gut, whereas pure sugar (glucose) does not. It would seem that HFCS gives everyone a 'beer gut'. How appealing. This stuff is poisonous.