So don't slather your tuna with high-fructose corn syrup, mmmkay?

[brynndragon]

You know those ads where someone asks "What's wrong with high-fructose corn syrup"?

Apparently the answer is mercury. Who knew?

Comments

[white-and-nrdy.livejournal.com]

tenderpaw's 4yo son gets cranky, nasty, and even violent when he's had HFCS. There's a remarkable difference in his behavior when he has and hasn't had it. Even I, a non-kid person, can see it as clear as day. She's changed his diet to reduce, and preferably eliminate, HFCS as much as possible.

Now, whether mercury has anything to do with this or not, I don't know.

From what I remember...

[null4096.livejournal.com]

The HFCS was supposed to be bad because it goes directly to the liver to get metabolized into fat...I really ought to google it.

Without pretending to be an authority on the science (which I'm not), the behavioral problems may be related to the fructose, or maybe the mercury has something to do with it. It's sort of as if someone found trace levels of lead in wine bottles and everyone went "gee! that's why wine makes you clumsy and stupid! lead poisoning!"

It's also possible that it has idiosyncratic effects on some people but not on others.