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Saturday, August 13, 2005


Today was boring. I didn't do much at all. I sat on my ass from 11am to 6pm, chatting online with complete strangers, before walking a quarter mile to Schnucks so I could pay a dollar extra for the brand of hummus that DOESN'T contain high fructose corn syrup.

Motherfucking corn syrup. GODDAMN IT. It's in fucking everything, man! The shit makes me paranoid. They say it does weird shit to rats, man. I don't want that crap in my food if I can help it. Damn government. It's all their fault. No, really. Read the article.

"Loading high fructose corn syrup into increasingly larger portions of soda and processed food has packed more calories into us and more money into food processing companies, say nutritionists and food activists. But some health experts argue that the issue is bigger than mere calories. The theory goes like this: The body processes the fructose in high fructose corn syrup differently than it does old-fashioned cane or beet sugar, which in turn alters the way metabolic-regulating hormones function. It also forces the liver to kick more fat out into the bloodstream."

"The end result is that our bodies are essentially tricked into wanting to eat more and at the same time, we are storing more fat."

*shudder*


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