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High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats
krou writes "In an experiment conducted by a Princeton University team, 'Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.' Long-term consumption also 'led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.' Psychology professor Bart Hoebel commented that 'When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight.'"
In order to cut back on HFCS consumption, you have to avoid all the alternatives to whatever it was that had the HFCS in it in the first place, which themselves have HFCS in them.
Thus switching from cola to water isn't going to help when bottled water contains as much HFCS as the cola does. Switching from candy to no snacks at all requires reworking your diet to provide regular meals, but then you have to avoid HFCS in the meals that you're now eating to reduce your candy habit.
Even steak dinners have HFCS in them, to help the caramelisation when you bake the steak in the oven.
In the USA these days, the only way to avoid HFCS is to grow the vegetables yourself, collect rainwater to drink, and avoid meat.
Or move to a different country where the corn industry isn't dictating what people eat.