Comments on: The dark and murky effects of HFCS https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/ Speculations on the Frontiers of Science and Culture Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mike https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-33 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:03:42 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-33 Absolutely– I think the pseudo-addiction that happens with carbs, particularly sugars, is part of the story. Will be looking into that…

]]> By: DFrasier https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-34 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:45:35 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-34 Mike, the research also suggests that ingestions of sugars causes a spike in the bodies level of insulin, which in turn leaves you tired and craving more sugars. So on top of our loss of willpower to resist cravings (or anything else that willpower is useful for, as you point out) we also sustain HIGHER levels of cravings. This all feeds into the positive feedback loop. – Dan

]]> By: Israel https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-35 Fri, 08 May 2009 07:34:00 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-35 Hey man, great blog. I had personally suspected this myself through the years but I was never able to confirm it until now. Thank you for that insight.
Heres a little experiment that I found out that you might find interesting. Read my story and I promise you it will get you interested in doing this little project.
I know a store thats called “Wincos”, that actually makes fresh peanut butter on the spot. All you have to do is press this button and it starts churning all of these peanuts into peanut butter. I bought it and started eating this natural peanut butter for about two weeks but I didn’t like it because I was used to JIFF. After awhile, I began to like the natural peanut butter, and when I ran out of it, I decided to start eating some JIFF again. (…and guess what happened!)
The JIFF tasted like shit!! You can straight out taste all the chemicals in the JIFF that I had to spit it out. Thats when I finally started to wonder how badly America is being poisoned by their own markets. Try it next time. buy some natural peanuts, put it in a blender of some sort and make your own peanut butter. After about 2 weeks or so, try out some brand name peanut butter and you will see how badly poisoned our food is. Hope this helps somebody thats doing a story on this.

]]> By: Mike https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-36 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:19:00 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-36 Hi Anthony,

Unfortunately, as you note, there’s little reputable research on this topic. I might suggest getting in touch with Gailliot and Baumeister; this might be something they have more leads on.

Hope to see your research when it’s done,

Mike

]]> By: Anthony https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-37 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:44:00 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-37 I read your blog.. I agree on the effects you claim HFCS has.

There is very little research done on the grounds of how it affects your mind however..
I’m working on writing a research paper on it in Neuroscience..
Do you have more references?

Thanks!!

]]> By: mike https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-38 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:17:00 +0000 https://archive.opentheory.net/2008/04/the-dark-and-murky-effects-of-hfcs/#comment-38 does this mean that if I had a bag of candy sweetened naturally, I would be able to have a few bites and stop, but if it were sweetened with HFCS, I would eat the whole bag?

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