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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.
What I don't understand is why people demonize High Fructose Corn Syrup. It has the same number of calories as Sugar. It breaks-down in the body the same way (fructose and glucose). There's no real difference.
Therefore you should demonize both. ;-)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Um, high fructose corn syrup and fructose are two different animals.
To whomever modded me down for "being wrong" you should watch this lecture by a college professor. It's called "Sugar - The Bitter Truth" and is about how sugar causes obesity using the same mechanism as HFCS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Oh an by the way, mod points are not meant to be used to say "I disagree" or otherwise punish other users. Read the fraaking FAQ.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall