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A University of California study on human subjects seems to indicate what food activists have long believed: high fructose corn syrup has special qualities which cause humans to pork up like animals in a feed lot. Oh, and it also may help cause life-threatening chronic diseases. The study was small, but frightening.
Over 10 weeks, 16 volunteers on a strictly controlled diet, including high levels of fructose, produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. Another group of volunteers on the same diet, but with glucose sugar replacing fructose, did not have these problems.
People in both groups put on a similar amount of weight. However, researchers at the University of California who conducted the trial, said the levels of weight gain among the fructose consumers would be greater over the long term.
High fructose corn syrup is in nearly everything Americans eat, from fruit juices to bread to ketchup. It’s cheap, but is such cheap sweetness worth it in the long run, when it may actually be killing us?
Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener [Times Online] (Thanks, Nadine!)
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the citations for folks who have access to journals:
Am J Clin Nutr 2008 88 suppl 1733S–7S
J Clin Endocrinol Metab May 2009 94 5 1562–1569
J Clin Invest 119 1322–1334 2009 doi 10 1172 JCI37385
J Nutr 139 1236S–1241S 2009
This article states fructose. Sugar has fructose in it too . So the post is wrong when states just high fructose corn syrup.
“Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, and a US government adviser on health policy,… “
spelled with an ‘i’ instead of an ‘e’…
Obv more testing and replication of results needs to be done, but I hope these results will out. It all depends on how they picked their very small sample size.
I understand that high fructose corn syrup is bad for you, my question is, is it any worse for you than a similar amount of sugar?
I think that’s my main question is that I know it’s slightly different than sugar, but aren’t they both pretty equally bad for you? the amount of glucose your body processes from both is pretty similar, so I’ve always wondered that
HAHAHA, why does this even matter? Apparently everything around us can kill us. Cell phone signals, microwave radiation, hand sanitizer causes cancer, every type of food we put in our mouth causes some kind of negative effect. We’re all doomed to die, we might as well enjoy our favorite food.
OMG!!! 16 people?!! My, how scientific.
Well.. Duh!
Now try your best to avoid this stuff in your diet as if it were the plague. THAT is where the fun TRULY begins!
I wish they would actually link to the study. The problem is the fact they say one group used ‘glucose sugar’. This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Regular table sugar, is one fructose molecule and one glucose molecule bonded together. HFCS has different blends but it generally ranges from 40-60 to 50-50 blends, where the only difference is that the molecules of fructose and glucose are unbonded. ‘high fructose’ is more of a relative term, instead of it being like 90% or 100% fructose like most people seem to think.
It would be interesting if they tested table sugar vs HFCS and found this link, since from a purely molecular level they’re basically identical, other than having to break the bond between the molecules in table sugar. It’s a great ‘scary’ headline, but without the study it’s not clear if this ‘glucose sugar’ is even something most people come into contact with.
Really odd to see this entry right above the “Bacon’s so great” story… Bacon’s much worse than corn syrup, you know.
I don’t need anymore proof. As a white male at 31 statistically I had a very low chance of getting diabetes. And yes, I was very overweight. But just after a few weeks of changing how I eat and losing weight my diabetes went away. Meaning, no longer on medication to control my blood sugar. In total I lost 115 pounds and stopped eating HFCS and hydrogenated oils.
While two factors are involved, change in my diet and weight loss. My diet changed much faster than I lost the weight. I was only on medication for 14 days after my diabetes diagnosis. My A1C was over 10 at the time of diagnosis, now it is 4.7 – 4.8, 1.5 years later.
Why even exchange SUGAR for a synthesized crap version? Stupid.
Why wasn’t this one filed under “ORLY”?
Ketchup, buy Heinz Reduced Sugar. No HFCS, and low regular sugar. I think it tastes better than regular Heinz, and it’s thicker too.
Always read labels. I wanted to try some new Ritz Crisps that just came out, they too had HFCS, so I put it back and will not ever buy.
Don’t buy anything with HFCS, or anthing with the word Hydrogenated. If you didn’t know, a prodcuct can say Trans Fat Free, and label it as Zero Trans Fats, even though it has .5 per serving. Eat 4 Oreos and you may have eaten 2 Grams of Trans Fat.