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Maya2001 -> RE: High Fructose Corn Syrup (1/18/2009 9:39:53 AM)
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You have to wonder about all these things we keep putting in our food to make it sweet, keep it fresh longer, and supposedly make it healthier. They don't seem to be improving our health. The claims of manufacturers seem more and more like the claims the tobacco industry used to make in the 40s and 50s.
We have changed dramatically as a society over the last 50 years on how we shop for shop... in the past we did not have large refrigerators and family sizes were generally larger........ we did not need all the preservatives in foods as food did not sit around the house for more than a couple days.... we had daily or every other day milk deliveries we went shopping for food it was generally just enough for a couple of days... there was far far less pre prepared food available.. most women at the time did not work outside the home.....they did not have the time between laundering by hand or if lucky wringer,, stripping, waxing, buffing floors, baking breads /pasteries, cooking , canning , vegetable gardening and weeding .... because most foods were hand prepared the amount of sugars and preservatives we took in was far less.. but post WW2 created change it brought the advent of modern appliances, women were now being brought into the work force and the demand grew for time saving appliances and more pre prepared food and preservative laden foods inorder to save shopping trips to the store
So with the addition of preservatives... it changed the flavor of the food so it need to be enhanced to make it more palatable so, salts, sugars was added to improve the flavor... and we making changes to improve on .... like breads that could sit out on the counter for a week or 2 with out going moldy .... frozen dish menus needed ways to prevent freezer drying to maintain colour, so the more food was tampered with the improve texture and color we needed a way to hide the taste of whatever we were using to enhancing and generally that means add more salt or sugar... so the demand for sugar started outstripping the available supply..corn syrup/fructose became the cheap easy to produce alternative that would meet the needs..... and as we become conditioned to eating the foods with lots of sugars(fructose) and salt the regular foods start to become bland.. suddenly mashing potatoes with some butter and a bit of milk is not enough we need to start adding things to it, salt , gravy, cheese, herbs... a grilled steak is too plain we need marninades and sauces to enhance it... and what is in most??? sugar/fructise and salt..... we have in fact developed an addiction to .... even a lot of the dog and cat foods have add salt and fructose so even our pets have become addicted and most tend to become obese as well
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