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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Except that, in the case of high fructose corn syrup, the process used to make it changes it so that the body doesn't actually recognize it as food- it's why it's so easy to toss back a 20 oz Coca cola, while a 12-ounce soda made with sugar actually makes you feel more full.
There are some who say America's obesity epidemic can be traced to Nixon's change of the subsidies to the agricultural industry in the 1970's- since farmers got their subsidies without the gov't taking their crop in exchange, they put so much corn on the market that it started being used in everything.
As far as I know, fructose from bees is recognizable as food to the body. And you're right; it's delicious.  I also like chewing on an actual piece of sugar cane. Yum. |
Now you see, I think this is why splenda makes me feel hungry. It has a slight alteration, one crazy bond is shifted (no change in chemical composition at all; hydroxyl group up, instead of down) basically identical to sucrose and your bodies cells say nah, but your taste buds and brain say yes. And then I get hungry for sweets very soon after that. So my brain goes back on its word, it essentially lies, which is unsettling.
No one should like their brain lying to them. Its not healthy. If you put your hand down on a red hot stove, and your brain says ignore it until you start smelling your own burning flesh... well thats perjury in my "mind". Thats lying before the Supreme Court. Or maybe its just a split court, since afterall you did smell the burning flesh which must have got up to that mass of neurons somehow.
I have now confused myself. Which is as bad as my brain lying to me. I am forced to cease before my head explodes.