What Are the Practical Effects of Not Including the Grams of Corn Sugar on Ingredients Labels

What Are the Practical Effects of Not Including the Grams of Corn Sugar on Ingredients Labels : The simple fact is that parents are unaware of the amount of sugar (or sugar equivalents) contained in canned soft drinks, soft drinks sold from soda dispensers in theaters and convenience stores. For example, we went to the movies this week and bought a small Coke at the concession stand. There was no “Nutrition Facts” label on the container. No information of any kind for that matter.

The small size contains 28 ounces. The medium size contains 36 ounces and the large size, 48 ounces. There are six teaspoons of sugar per ounce. There are 28 grams in an ounce. The amounts of grams per can of soda were taken from the cans themselves and the sizes of 7-11’s Big Gulps come directly from their website. You can do the math yourself using the formula supplied by The Journal of Clinical Investigation study and the “Nutrition Facts” on the cans. If a full disclosure of the total amount of sugar (and sugar equivalents) were made as a line item on the “Nutrition Facts” section of the labels on Coke and Pepsi, they would read:

28 ounce serving would contain 95 grams of sugar and up to 95 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 190 grams (6.8 ounces or 40.8 teaspoons) of total sugar.

! 36 ounce serving would contain 123 grams of sugar and up to 123 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 246 grams (8.8 ounces or 52.8 teaspoons) of total sugar.

! 48 ounce serving would contain 164 grams of sugar and up to 164 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 328 grams (11.7 ounces or 70.2 teaspoons) of total sugar.

The “Big Gulp” line of soft drinks, sold in 7-11 convenience stores, consist of the following size containers taken from their website. The math computations are ours:

! The Big Gulp contains 32 ounces of soft drink which contains 107 grams of sugar and up to 107 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 214 grams (7.6 ounces or 45.6 teaspoons) of total sugar.

! Super Big Gulp contains 44 ounces of soft drink which contains 133 grams of sugar and up to 133 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 266 grams (9.5 ounces or 57 teaspoons) of total sugar.

! The Double Gulp contains 64 ounces of soft drink which contains 213 grams of sugar and up to 213 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 426 grams (15.2 ounces or 91.2 teaspoons) of total sugar.

! Team Gulp contains 128 ounces of soft drink containing 427 grams of sugar and up to 427 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 854 grams (30.5 grams or 183 teaspoons) of total sugar.

We all know people who drink at least a six-pack of Coke or Pepsi a day. We have at least one friend who feasted on more than one Big Gulp a day. Others we know consume even more. In 2009 the per capita use of high fructose corn syrup reached 63.6 pounds (170,956.8 teaspoons) per person. That number is double that amount for sugary drink lovers because many other Americans do not drink soft drinks containing sugar. For example, Bubbling Over: Soda Consumption and Its Link to Obesity disclosed that the average California teen consumes 39 pounds of liquid sugar a year from drinking sodas.

A six-pack of Coke or Pepsi (72 ounces) contains 246 grams of sugar and approximately 246 grams of corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup) for a total of approximately 492 grams (17.6 ounces or 105.6 teaspoons) of total sugar based upon the formula provided by the 2009 study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation and the information on the cans.

The practical effect is that corn sugar (high fructose corn syrup), which is not included in the “Nutrition Facts” portion of the label and not even displayed on the sodas purchased at the movies or on Big Gulp containers, is contributing to weight gain, obesity, food addiction, diabetes, liver and kidney disease as well as cancer. The research supporting these concerns is now legion.

Can you believe the Corn Refiners Association ads that “sugar is sugar” when so many Americans are overweight and there are waiting lines for kidney and liver transplants? If high fructose corn syrup is not a problem, then why are they so afraid to tell you how much of it is in a product? Decide for yourself.

And, every doctor and researcher in the U.S. agree that cancer is carried along its nefarious journey on the back of sugar. How can the members of the Corn Refiners Association, their executives, their employees and public relations personnel sleep at night knowing that they are unleashing this horror on the children of America?

And, how can we as parents and concerned Americans continue to take a blind eye to an industry whose only interest is to addict children and increase profits from a chemically altered form of sugar that should be classified as an illegal drug.

The Corn Refiners Association is the industries’ mouthpiece, much like in the old gangster movies, that tries to protect the industry from the consequences of their actions. How many millions of dollars annually does the food industry and the CRA contribute to lobbyists and politicians to achieve their goal of addicting the children of America on soft drinks?

How many millions more in advertisements and bribes will they spend in their death march of greed and insensitivity to the declining health of Americans before this stops? More importantly, what are we going to do as a nation to stop this charade? For the latest updates PRESS CTR + D or visit Stock Market news Today

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