High Fructose Corn Syrup is Poison

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# 122:

8:07 am PST, Feb 9, Linda Davis, Oklahoma
I try to avoid foods with this, but it's in everything, even crackers!! Please stop using!! For our health...

# 121:

12:46 pm PST, Feb 6, Sherry Castleberry, Ohio
A friend of mine said it best, HFCS is like a shot, and Sugar is like beer. It takes less shots to get you trashed than it does beer. I definitely hope Pepsi keeps the throwbacks on the market, they definitely taste way, WAY better.

# 120:

5:02 pm PST, Feb 5, Joseph Connelly, New York
HFCS is not real sugar get this junk out of food supply!HFCS is used to increase food corporations profits by not paying to import real sugar from sugar cane plant!! HFCS is paid for by farm subsides!

# 119:

7:27 am PST, Feb 5, Amelia Barber, West Virginia

# 118:

1:33 pm PST, Feb 2, Shannon Minnihan, New Jersey

# 117:

10:45 am PST, Jan 31, Kathy Straub, New Jersey
very harmful stuff...should not be in our food !!!

# 116:

10:40 am PST, Jan 30, Name not displayed, Maryland

# 115:

10:27 am PST, Jan 30, Name not displayed, Maryland

# 114:

6:51 pm PST, Jan 29, Sam Tsang, Illinois

# 113:

7:08 am PST, Jan 28, Steve Straub, New Jersey
Stop approving things as food when they are not. High fructose corn syrup is no diferent than any other highly processed poison. This is highly unethical and is immoral. Profits are not more important than health! It's amazing that "the powers that be" need to be reminded of such common sense morals. They are either stupid or evil... (and I don't believe they're stupid).

# 112:

11:25 pm PST, Jan 27, Richard Hollister, Arizona

# 111:

11:10 pm PST, Jan 27, Jerry Yester, Arkansas
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# 110:

5:36 pm PST, Jan 27, Lena Boone, North Carolina
The fact that television channels like Discovery Health are showing commercials that suggest HFCS isn't that bad for you, is completely disgraceful. Fortunately, I know better.

# 109:

1:56 pm PST, Jan 27, Elizabeth Straub, New Jersey
I am an aspiring health teacher, and a personal trainer.. HFCS is my enemy! It is my mission to make it known to as many people as possible that it is a POISON! My research paper is on it, thanks for this petition!

# 108:

12:51 pm PST, Jan 26, Jeremiah Quitto, Oklahoma

# 107:

7:16 pm PST, Jan 24, Marian Olpinski, Missouri
I just finished listening to Dr. Lustig lecture about fructose metabolism and its influence on the increase of obesity epidemics. I am a pediatrician also. I think Dr. Lustig is right. We need to get rid of HFCS as soon as possible. LET'S DO THAT!!!

# 106:

9:00 pm PST, Jan 23, Marco Angolo, Alaska
kill or be killed

# 105:

8:54 am PST, Jan 22, David Brink, Tennessee
I personally check every item I buy and I do not spend my money on anything with HFCS in it.

# 104:

2:03 pm PST, Jan 19, Gary Gasko, New Jersey
I try my best not to buy foods containing HFCS. It tastes better without it!

# 103:

8:45 pm PST, Jan 14, Sal Squillaci, Florida

# 102:

9:47 am PST, Jan 13, Name not displayed, Texas

# 101:

2:49 am PST, Jan 11, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 100:

6:11 pm PST, Jan 8, Jennifer Hall, Tennessee

# 99:

8:35 pm PST, Jan 4, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
I'm sick of high fructose corn syrup, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth and i always feel sick when i consume this.

# 98:

6:11 am PST, Dec 26, Mervin Brown, Ohio

# 97:

2:29 pm PST, Dec 25, Suzy Forwood, California
HFCS is a liver toxin. Do we need more information to stop using it??? Poison. Toxic. That's our food and drink, everything prepared for us. Just don't eat or drink it. That will help. And spread the word....

# 96:

9:27 am PST, Dec 21, Tom Rowe, Iowa
Please use other ingredients that are more healthy!

# 95:

8:00 am PST, Dec 21, Amanda Lee, Canada
High Fructose corn syrup may also cause attention span disturbances

# 94:

12:34 pm PST, Dec 19, Curtis Crim, Iowa
HighFructoseCornPoison.com HFCP is a narcotic drug, not a food.

# 93:

7:55 am PST, Dec 18, Von Davidson, Illinois

# 92:

11:41 am PST, Dec 7, Derek Hayden, Oregon
I had to stop eating corn syrup and processed flour because of severe health problems.

# 91:

2:11 pm PST, Dec 5, Kari Thumlert, California
Enough poison food! How do you people sleep at night?

# 90:

6:00 pm PST, Nov 27, Kekuhoumana Ka'ahea, California

# 89:

1:10 pm PST, Nov 26, Blake Breuhan, Michigan
It is disgusting that greed is a huge contributing factor to the rise in obesity as companies find it necessary to fill our foods with cheap, fake, unhealthy sugar substitutes to fatten their wallets.

# 88:

11:07 am PST, Nov 23, Stephen Grotticelli, New York

# 87:

1:46 pm PST, Nov 18, Jon Corlett, Florida

# 86:

12:06 am PST, Nov 13, Ro Ram, California
stop killing our people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lets make things healthier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 85:

11:45 am PST, Nov 10, Caroline Oswald, California
Although corn syrup is cheaper than sugar it is man-made. Obviously sugar comes from a plant - the sugar cane plant. The amount of corn syrup in the average American's diet has surpassed any level of moderation and mostly it has occurred without our awareness or consent. Once corn syrup was added to our diet it didn't take long for many health problems to develop - the most prevalent being a nation of obese people. To this day many people are uneducated as to the effects of corn syrup in their diet or to the sources of corn syrup in their diet. This fact coupled with the advertising done by the manufacturers of corn syrup proclaiming that corn syrup has no negative side effects has made us a nation of ignorant obese citizens. One day this epidemic will be compared to that of the tobacco industry. For now I can only hope that this serious matter gains some attention in the public eye so that more people may be aware of the problem and thereby have the OPTION to choose to consume corn syrup or to choose to restrict it from their diet. I say restrict because as anyone who reads the labels in grocery stores can tell you corn syrup is in nearly every product on the shelves. Education can only take us so far - it is the responsibility of those in power to make a decision to reduce the amount of corn syrup companies are allowed to use in their products. We as citizens, the ones who know, can only do our best to pick healthy alternatives, even if there are few available to us. Being that most people are not vegans, it is nearly impossible to completely eliminate corn syrup from our lives even if we stop drinking soda we still find corn syrup in our so called healthy cereals in our yogurt and in our bread - a staple to the American public.

# 84:

4:57 am PST, Nov 9, Aymie Knapp, Florida
Let's get this junk out of our lives and off the shelves!

# 83:

9:15 am PST, Nov 7, Mandy Sladky, Oregon

# 82:

9:28 am PST, Nov 5, Karrie Campbell, Tennessee
I have had enough of HFCS My husband and I had bought a andes Candies cream pie recently. That has to much HFCS and I am right now after done eating it having a big reaction to it. People eats this stuff and others with this stuff in it and they wonder why they are getting sick. Its time to to say no to company's that push this trash unto us. I am going totally Organic soon.

# 81:

10:31 am PDT, Oct 7, Sally Tinkham, New Hampshire

# 80:

10:21 pm PDT, Oct 4, Stefanie Noonan, Oregon
HFCS is poison in my 10 year old daughter's body. Unfortunately it took us years to determine the cause behind her anxiety attacks. We like to think we're smarter now but it still creeps its ugly head in once in a while. Tonight for instance...she dipped her airheads candy (HFCS free) into a sour gel. Melted down instantaneously. I dug the pouch out of the trash and there it was--HFCS the second ingredient. Yikes! Get this stuff off the shelves. Sincerely, Stefanie Noonan

# 79:

8:40 am PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, North Carolina

# 78:

10:05 pm PDT, Sep 30, David Rose, California
I buy NOTHING with High Fructose

# 77:

10:58 am PDT, Sep 29, AnimalSpirit ~Diana Martz, Indiana

# 76:

7:37 am PDT, Sep 25, Janice Sturdy, United Kingdom

# 75:

7:07 am PDT, Sep 24, Imran Suleman, South Africa
for how long are we going to allow "big buisness" to manipulate our lives. its time we stand up to them and refuse to become pawns in thier game.

# 74:

9:43 am PDT, Sep 23, Deo Read Jr., New York
Plese consider adopting the Canadian standard for High Fructose Corn Syrup in our USA markets! Eliminate HFCS in ALL products sold in the US!!!!!!

# 73:

6:35 am PDT, Sep 21, Jane Ward, Illinois

# 72:

11:14 pm PDT, Sep 20, Name not displayed, Arizona
Food & Drug Admin is a conflict of interest. They want the food to make everyone sick so we spend more money on drugs to keep us alive. They want children to get the diseases at earlier ages so more drugs need to be taken. It is disgusting and evil what they are doing. We need to put a stop to it. It's ALL about money and NOT health.

# 71:

8:19 pm PDT, Sep 20, Chris Baker, Canada
hi i just like to say this product(hfcs)is a man made product just like plastic from oil an just like you wouldn't put a lego block in your gas tank you should not put this into your body they took corn an made it poison jsut because we can do something should we.

# 70:

8:30 pm PDT, Sep 19, Krystal Stanford, Texas

# 69:

12:40 am PDT, Sep 19, Nicole Williams, South Carolina

# 68:

1:35 pm PDT, Sep 11, MICHELE VONSTAICH, California

# 67:

11:57 am PDT, Sep 8, Evelyn Bone, Massachusetts
How did this stuff get approved by the FDA anyway? There are more and more products that are not adding sweeteners (check the frozen vegetables) or are going back to plain old sugar, they are usually local or regional brands. Look for them at your grocery. If your grocery store does not have any find a local brand on line and make a request to your grocery to carry that item, and refuse to buy the other stuff. It is time we took back our right to healthy, untampered with, unmodified food. They destroy the natural nutrition in the food then come up with some supplement or specialty food to supposedly replace what they have destroyed.

# 66:

2:33 am PDT, Sep 5, Rachel Sipp, Oregon

# 65:

10:22 am PDT, Sep 3, Jason Fields, New York
I basically stumbled into the HFCS awareness when a friend from Canada told me that it's illegel there, and those stupid HFCS propaganda commercials. He pointed out that the soda sold in Canada doesn't contain this garbage. I was completly unaware of what I was consuming! So I did a little research. HOLY HELL! Finally things started to make sense. First let me say that I am soda fan (yeah, not healthy, but everyone has something they enjoy that isn't). I started to develope health issues in the late 1990s. It wasn't until I did a little research that I realized that this was around the same time that the soda companies started sweetening their drinks with this poison instead of sugar! Needless to say I stopped drinking soda with HFCS in it (thank God for Pepsi Throwback...lol). Just cutting that out of my diet alone I noticed a hugh difference. I was even able to stop taking my blood pressure meds, because I didn't need them anymore! My digestive system was really screwed up, and yup you guessed it, much better these days. I've been trying to cut this crap out of my family's diet, and I've realized just what a hard battle this is because it is in EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE! Hell, check your pancake syrup, bet you thought it was maple...LOL. The final factor was whenever my wife or I ate something with HFCS in it since we started cutting it out of our diet we would get really sick. It's poison plain and simple, and even though it's an absolute disgrace that our government allows big business to kill us all in order to save a few bucks, it doesn't exactly surprise me. However, perhaps if enough of us stand up and let them know that we will no longer let them poison us, then maybe something will change.

# 64:

6:11 pm PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, New York

# 63:

12:38 pm PDT, Aug 21, Name not displayed, Texas
I am so sick of reading 'corn syrup' on all the foods in the store! Why does cereal or bread need to have corn syrup in them for instance?

# 62:

7:52 am PDT, Aug 21, Shara Rabich, Georgia

# 61:

1:00 pm PDT, Aug 15, George R Joseph Jr, Mississippi
George R Joseph, Jr.

# 60:

7:26 pm PDT, Aug 14, Lisa DeSantis, Pennsylvania
HFCS=DEATH.

# 59:

11:33 am PDT, Aug 13, Aquilla Yoder, Pennsylvania
I don't want high fructose corn syrup in my food or beverages because it can cause disease.

# 57:

11:26 am PDT, Aug 12, Elizabeth Falin, Nevada
I have decided to shop from other countries to avoid this and other artificial ingredients. I do some shopping here in the U.S. but only items I know that do not contain these toxic ingredients.

# 58:

11:25 am PDT, Aug 12, Elizabeth Falin, Nevada
I have decided to shop from other countries to avoid this and other artificial ingredients. I do some shopping here in the U.S. but only items I know that do not contain these toxic ingredients.

# 56:

12:13 pm PDT, Aug 10, Vicki Buchanio, Massachusetts
HFCS is truly poison. My 10 year old niece has fatty liver disease from all the "healthy" fruit juices and breakfast cereals she's grown up on. You are killing children.

# 55:

7:38 am PDT, Aug 8, Name not displayed, Missouri
PLEASE take this poisen off of the market!! We have enough things to kill us in our lives.

# 54:

10:54 am PDT, Aug 7, Name not displayed, Missouri
I refuse to poison my family!

# 53:

5:11 pm PDT, Aug 1, Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin

# 52:

6:43 am PDT, Jul 31, Name not displayed, New Jersey
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), used to sweeten everything from the obvious (soft drinks) to the obscure (ketchup, salad dressing, bread), can trip up digestive system hormones that control hunger and appetite. The end result: Your brain misses out on hormone messages that signal a full stomach. Start reading labels people- we are what we eat. ”Your digestive system has two main hormones that control hunger and appetite. Ghrelin is secreted by the stomach and increases your appetite. When your stomach's empty, it sends ghrelin out, requesting food. Leptin tells your brain that you're full. HFCS inhibits leptin secretion, so you never get the message that you're full. And HFCS never shuts off ghrelin, so even though you have food in your stomach, you constantly get the message that you're hungry. “ Do not buy foods containing HFCS. We deserve better and healthier food. Buy local and organic. Stay away from processed foods, and avoid fast food at all costs. Let’s let Manufacturers know we care about our health.

# 51:

1:37 pm PDT, Jul 27, Michelle Arechiga, California
High fructose corn syrup is toxic! We must do something about this hazardous ingredient that lurks in nearly everything.

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