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HFCS makes me sick.

I conducted my own experiment(well it had nothing to do with HFCS originally, but it gave me some conclusions about it). I had completely eliminated it from my diet. I simply stopped drinking anything except booze, coffee(with cream and sugar) and water. If I wanted flavor, I drank beer. If I wanted flavor and drunk, I drank whiskey, scotch or a rye manhattan.

So, I decide, perhaps, I'm drinking too much, and when I go to the store I pick up some soda to satisfy the "I don't feel like water" part of myself.

Picked up some soda. Soda as you know uses HFCS instead of cane sugar.

Drank a few cans one day, my insomnia kicked in and when I did get sleep I felt as sick as when I had downed an entire bottle of peach schnopps in an evening.

So I stopped drinking it, instead switched to weak coffee with extreme sweetness. Drank 8 cups a day for a week. No insomnia(I don't get very wired on caffeine), no sickness the next day. Calories btw were actually lower than drinking the equivalent amount of soda(6 tsp sugar @ 90 calories versus god knows how much HFCS @ 139 calories in a can of coke. Similar volumes).

Drank a similar amount of Coke by volume. Next day negative affects.

Drank a similar amount of Mountain Dew by volume. Next day negative affects.

Eliminated the HFCS and everything went back to my wierd definition of normal.

So, to be complete about it. I used maple syrup(which is mostly HFCS) instead of sugar for my coffee. Got sick.

This is purely anecdotal, but I'm not touching anything with high fructose corn syrup in it again.

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    • No problems with fruit either. I can have grapes fed to me all day by nubile young women without experiencing one ill affect. :-)

      I forgot to list it, focusing mainly on sucrose, but I also tried eating a lot of fruit. No ill affects given a similar caloric intake from fructose to my HFCS experiment.

      I'm big into hacking my own body. Blame the far east.

      It's something about how I metabolize HFCS that causes it, I suspect. Since I don't need to have the stuff, I'm playing it safe and avoiding it.
      • fruit and fructose aren't the same. Fruit sugar when it's still in fruit acts differently than straight fructose.

        But you can pick it up in the grocery store and try that. It may not change a thing, which makes it still a good idea, because if you're sensitive enough to get ill ffects from the corn syrup, but not from regular fructose, you've got yourself one more sweetener that you can use.

        I'd get some blood sugar tests just to be sure, not because i think you're wrong, but because more readout is better

      • Re:hmm (Score:2)

        by nizo ( 81281 )
        I can have grapes fed to me all day by nubile young women without experiencing one ill affect.

        That line and all the talk about maple syrup makes me sooooo wish my fiance wasn't pissed at me right now. But other than that thanks for the fodder needed to generate pleasant imagery for this afternoon! :-)

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  • Try 100% real maple and see what happens :)

    Also try a little dark Karo [karosyrup.com] syrup, which I notice has dark corn syrup and refiners syrup in it. I'm just guessing that refiners syrup is different from high fructose syrup, because their other products mention high fructose syrup explicitly. You might like it instead of the fake maple syrup on your pancakes, anyway. :)
  • One way to rule that its the soda's HFCS and not something else (like the dyes or whatever) would be to try drinking diet soda. Diet Mt Dew and Diet Dr Pepper are the two best IMHO of those I've been forced to drink due to the incompetance of our vending maching staff.
    • I switched entirely to various diet sodas from my 6-8 can a day Pepsi habit. I agree, Diet Mt. Dew and D.r Pepper are good. I like diet Code Red Mt. Dew personally. It took about 6 weeks of "yuck, this tastes like crap" forcing myself to drink the diet stuff to get used to the taste. Now sugared drinks taste too sweet.

      Anyhow, I found that knocking 900-1200 calories of sugars out of my diet helped me to lose about 35 pounds. I also switched to a low carb diet (no not Atkins, I still eat bread and fruit

    • Diet Dr. Pepper is good. I think Diet Mt. Dew tastes horrible, but I've never been a fan of normal Mt. Dew. My two favorite diet sodas though are Diet Pepsi Vanilla and Pepsi One.

      Oh, Diet Mt. Dew Code Red is also fantastic.

  • Around here if it's labeled Maple Syrup, it's 100% maple syrup, no HFCS.

    But if you have problems with fructose, then you'd have problems with Maple Syrup too, I guess.
  • in the coffee. Sweet, natural, great stuff.
    • Why would anyone use anything other than honey if it is available? I recently picked up 53 pounds of the stuff, and can't wait to start cooking (teaching too much to cook a lot this week). Just gotta remember to save some for the mead:)
  • I know. My mother-in-law is allergic and so we try and find non-corn-syup-containing products. Good luck. Why are they putting corn syrup in EVERYTHING on the planet?
  • have you tried red tea? it's also known as rooibos. it's made from a root originating in south africa. it's really high in antioxidants, naturally caffeine free, and tastes really good. it's good hot or iced. it often comes with a little vanilla mixed in. sweeten it with whatever doesn't mess you up.

    just a thought on something tasty to use in place of water.

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