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I have been reading alot lately about 'high fructose corn syrup'. From what I'm reading this is some pretty scary stuff and it's in everything. to quote some articles:
from the NewYorkTimes
from the washingtonpost
yet another article
I think I'm going to read label a little more...
from the NewYorkTimes
PHP:
Professor Bray of the Pennington research center — a lean,
bespectacled man who had spent much of his career studying obesity
and diabetes — said he had been pondering the obesity problem
for several years when, in early 2002, he had a sudden insight.
Charting federal data on the consumption of high-fructose
corn syrup against data on obesity rates, he found amazing
parallels between his two graphs.
Starting in 1980, around the time that manufacturers
started replacing sugar in sodas with a more cheaply
produced sweetener — high-fructose corn syrup —
there was a sharp increase in male and female obesity
in the United States. From 1980 to 2000, the incidence
of obesity doubled, after having remained relatively flat
for the preceding 20 years, the data showed.
Could high-fructose corn syrup be making us fat,
Professor Bray wondered? After all, according to his
analysis of government consumption data,
per capita intake of the syrup had increased by more
than 1,000 percent from 1970 to 1990, exceeding the
changes in the intake of any other food group tracked by
the Department of Agriculture.
PHP:
Another concern is the action of fructose in the liver,
where it is converted into the chemical backbone of
trigylcerides more efficiently than glucose.
Like low-density lipoprotein -- the most damaging form of
cholesterol -- elevated levels of trigylcerides are linked to an
increased risk of heart disease.
A University of Minnesota study
published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in
2000 found that in men, but not in women, fructose
"produced significantly higher [blood] levels" than did
glucose. The researchers, led by J.P Bantle, concluded
that "diets high in added fructose may be undesirable,
particularly for men."
Other recent research suggests that fructose may alter
the magnesium balance in the body. That could, in turn,
accelerate bone loss, according to a USDA study published
in 2000 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
PHP:
"The medical profession thinks fructose is better for
diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the
body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must
be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the
high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics,
plugged with fat and cirrhotic."
they missed the part about the sweetener..