Filed under: Health & Medical
Sugar, once demonized by parents and dentists alike, is back in style, this time as a selling point for food companies who want to broadcast that their products are free from high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), the New York Times reports. HFCS, though believed by most scientists to be the same as sugar for your health, has become a whipping boy these days.
Log Cabin syrup recently announced that they've stopped using HFCS in their syrup; Pepsi has come out with new sugar-sweetened Pepsi and Mountain Dew; ConAgra uses only sugar or honey in its Healthy Choice All Natural frozen entrees.
"The argument about which is better for you, sucrose or HFCS, is garbage. Both are equally bad for your health," says Dr. Robert H. Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco Children's Hospital.
"For consumers, perception is reality," says Jim Sieple, a senior vice president for Log Cabin syrup.
This seems like an incredibly cynical move, preying on people's misperceptions about HFCS to market products filled with equally obesity-promoting sugar as "healthy." It feels very wrong that a soda company or a frozen dinner company slaps the words "all natural" (a totally meaningless marketing phrase) on a piece of junk food to make people feel like it's wholesome.
The problem is not HFCS OR sugar, it's the fact that items like frozen dinners are larded with sweeteners to make them more appealing (I don't put sugar in my pot pie, do you?), and that we drink gallons of soda instead of water.
What do you think? Is it wrong for companies to promote sugar-sweetened foods as healthy alternatives?
[Via: New York Times]
译文:
把糖归为健康食品错了吗？
归档于: 健康&医疗
糖，曾经被父母和牙医认为如同妖魔一样，而如今其却是一种时尚。食品公司还想以他们食品中没有含有高果糖玉米糖浆（氢氟碳化物）来做宣传 ，并以此作为卖点。纽约时报报道：氢氟碳化物，虽然曾经被大多数科学家认为对人体健康的作用和糖一样但如今却使小孩成了代罪羔羊。
木屋糖浆最近宣布，他们已经停止使用含有氢氟碳化物的糖浆;百事公司还推出了新的加糖百事可乐和高山露水; 而康尼格拉美国食品公司称：在所有全生态健康选择系列里已冻结的主菜里只使用糖或蜂蜜。
儿科内分泌专家罗伯特拉兹提格博士在加州大学及旧金山儿童医院曾说过：“蔗糖还是氢氟碳化合物哪个对你身体比较好的争论简直就是垃圾。两者都对人体的健康不利。 ”
小木屋糖浆的高级副总裁吉姆希尔普说：“对于消费者来说，观念是现实的。”
人们把氢氟碳化物及含有促使人体肥胖的糖份的食品视为“健康食品”，这看起来似乎是令人难以置信的玩世不恭的举动。更为错误的是一个苏打公司或冷冻晚餐公司把一个垃圾食品吹嘘为是“全天然”(一个完全意义的市场营销短语) 以使得人们觉得它真的是有益的
问题不在于高果糖浆和糖，事实是它就如一个冷冻晚餐一样，掺和着甜味剂，使他们看起来更诱人（我没把糖在放进我的锅饼，你呢？ ） ，而我们以加仑汽水饮料来代替水。
你认为呢？公司以含糖食品作为健康替代品的做法错了吗？
[发行: 纽约时报]