Is there a more unhealthy ingredient/food item than HFCS?

I wanna just put this here after clicking your thread:

Trying to pin the entire obesity epidemic on a single food additive is retarded.

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including high cholesterol foods

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Eat meat/fat/awesomeness. LINK

Eating "high" cholesterol foods will help you. Eating a mostly fat and zero/very low carb diet will reverse type 2 diabetes. This is fact LINK

You are correct in your fear of HFCS, avoid it like the plague. Eat meat and drink wine to your heart's content. You most likely can handle it before the wine does any harm. Be happy, you know sugar kills, so avoid it. Beer, starches, breads, most chocolates...avoid. There is nothing wrong with meat, eggs, bacon, non-starchy vegs, wine, bourbon. You won't gain weight on this.

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You would be wrong. It isn't simply overeating aka calories.

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While diabetes is in fact caused by high GI foods, HFCS is right up there with every other form of sugar in terms of how bad it is for you, including sugar, agave syrup, apple juice concentrate, etc. Not to mention natural high GI foods like white potatoes and watermelon.

So no, HFCS is not the actual enemy of diabetics. It's sugar (and easily digested starches more generally). But the obesity epidemic outside of diabetes is caused by overeating calories of any kind. That's been shown time and time again. Most people just eat more calories than they burn on a daily basis and gain weight over time. Eating just 150 calories a day over what you burn will have you gain something on the order of 20lbs in a year.

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Type 2 diabetes is running rampart across the country

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running rampart

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Beer

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Man I need to give this up again. I had stopped for 10 years and got back into it with good craft beers and it is making me a tad overweight.

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Eating just 150 calories a day over what you burn will have you gain something on the order of 20lbs in a year.

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Not one person, on Earth nor history, can regulate 150 calories (I've heard even less at 40 calories per day). Congratulations, you just tried to solve a biological problem (obesity) with a physics solution - energy in vs energy out. LINK LINK. But, I mean, all calories are made equal LINK... I mean, it was know in the 1950s that calories really didn't matter LINK. What you ate mattered more. It just isn't that simple. Even Kevin Hall, a big Low Carb doubter, inadvertently proved this in the NUSI funded study even though he tried to say otherwise LINK

The energy in vs energy out physics problem does NOT belong in a biological equation.

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I had stopped for 10 years and got back into it with good craft beers and it is making me a tad overweight.

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I blame it on beer too, but deep down I know what I ordered for lunch.

Not just HFCS, any sugar product in general. HFCS, sugar, 'organic' cane sugar, turbinado sugar, honey, fruit juices, dextrose etc etc.. It's in everything.

Dietary cholesterol ingestion plays little to no role in your blood cholesterol level.