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post #16 of 27
2/2/09 at 12:29am
Dont let the conspiracy theorists hear about this.

They will be trying to blame their kids autism on HFCS just like they do with the vaccinations that supposedly contained mercury!
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post #17 of 27
2/2/09 at 2:16am
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Nice catch Huntsman
Thanks -- but I'm an engineer. It's all in the training. ~ H
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post #18 of 27
2/2/09 at 3:10am
I don't trust anything that doesn't have a published study in a scientific journal, let alone something where there are no numbers even given. I wish everyone was more scientific and skeptical and less prone to believing anything written in a confident tone.
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post #19 of 27
2/2/09 at 6:17pm
I doubt this has much scientific backing. That said, I refuse to eat HFCS anyway. Its our government selling out the health of the population just to benfit big corn. Diabetes is overrated.

Foods that are mostly HFCS make me feel sick. Probly just because Im not used to it anymore, but still.
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post #20 of 27
2/2/09 at 8:28pm
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One of the studies mentioned is available online. It even lists levels of mercury in some store items. Take a look.
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post #21 of 27
2/2/09 at 11:58pm
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One of the studies mentioned is available online. It even lists levels of mercury in some store items. Take a look.

Would mean a lot more if it was published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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post #22 of 27
2/3/09 at 12:03am
Again, they are reporting parts per TRILLION vs., e.g., the levels in fish which are parts per MILLION. In other words this study was a massive waste of time (incl. my ~5 minutes) and money, comparatively speaking, and probably funded by a sugar company.
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post #23 of 27
2/3/09 at 8:14am
This study is "news" because detectible mercury concentrations were observed in a food one would not normally think of as containing mercury.

As far as the peer-reviewed science, the journal the article is published in is high quality (I have published in this journal).

In terms of health risk, the jury is still out. Mercury is probably detrimental to infant cognitive development, and may be to immune function as well. I will tell you that I still eat sushi, but not more than a couple times per month.
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post #24 of 27
2/3/09 at 9:36am
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One of the studies mentioned is available online. It even lists levels of mercury in some store items. Take a look.
That is the paper I read.
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Again, they are reporting parts per TRILLION vs., e.g., the levels in fish which are parts per MILLION. In other words this study was a massive waste of time (incl. my ~5 minutes) and money, comparatively speaking, and probably funded by a sugar company.
Yeah. For those who aren't familiar with that type of notation, I'll be explicit: 1 part per Trillion is ONE MILLION TIMES LESS than a part per Million. That means that the mercury levels in the fish cited in the report j cited have around ONE THOUSAND TIMES MORE mercury than the levels found in the the HFCS study.
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This study is "news" because detectible mercury concentrations were observed in a food one would not normally think of as containing mercury.
Yeah, but most people have no idea the scale of 'detectable' these days. At that type of level, mercury is probably 'detectable' in everything -- and they are talking about levels down at the detection threshold of the equipment. It needs context to make those points, and this study leaves that out, one could easily say deliberately, and for shock value. There's no other reason not to, and if, as an engineer, I wrote that report I'd expect to get whipped for not doing due diligence in about a hundred ways. ~ H
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post #25 of 27
2/3/09 at 9:46pm
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This study is "news" because detectible mercury concentrations were observed in a food one would not normally think of as containing mercury.

As far as the peer-reviewed science, the journal the article is published in is high quality (I have published in this journal).

In terms of health risk, the jury is still out. Mercury is probably detrimental to infant cognitive development, and may be to immune function as well. I will tell you that I still eat sushi, but not more than a couple times per month.

That's precisely it. Even the experts don't seem to know. Very possibly, the government limits are too high. HFCS is prevalent in the diet of many unhealthy eaters. Hence, despite the low levels in individual items, it might be harming many people, perhaps first starting with symptoms that are too vague to suggest diagnostic tests, such as hard-to-notice hair shedding.
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post #26 of 27
2/4/09 at 1:38pm
As it's not excreted, and it's in a variety of foods, the effect is additive.
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post #27 of 27
2/4/09 at 2:04pm
The Processed-food Industrial Complex has been bundt-forking us for decades with a long list of harmful chemicals, negligent plant maintenence, imported sub-ingredients, etc. Pull your pants up and start eating natural, healthy, local food.
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