How High Fructose Corn Syrup Makes you Gain Weight

Rusty · #1 07-26-2008, 08:20 PM

From fountia | Natural Wellness and Weight Loss

New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows the amazing speed that our bodies make body fat from fructose. One of the reasons why low carb diets help you lose weight is that they reduce your intake of fructose.

Even though fructose, a type of sugar, is found naturally abundance in fruit, it is also added to many processed foods. Fructose is probably best known for its presence in the sweetener called high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is typically 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose. It unfortunately has become the preferred sweetener for many food manufacturers. This is because it is cheaper, sweeter and easier to blend into beverages than table sugar.

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Eating processed high-fructose corn syrup in something definitely causes a sugar reaction in me that eating fruit doesn't do. Does anybody else notice this?

Roogle · #2 07-26-2008, 10:07 PM

It's been known for decades how corn syrup contributes to diabetes and heart problems....

I only want it to be labeled that food isn't added with sugar. Plain sugar is better than corn syrup.

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Tracy · #3 07-26-2008, 10:36 PM

Bill Maher has been talkin about the evils of corn syrup for years.....

Excerpt from a transcript from an appearance he made on Larry King Live September 13, 2004

CNN.com - Transcripts

KING: Bill Clinton's heart problem. He called into this program to discuss. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) said he made mistakes. What do you make of that whole story and will it hurt the Democrats that he can't get out and campaign?

MAHER: He'll get out and campaign. I truly believe he'll rise again. One of my big themes in life, in my stand-up, I try to do it on the show, I did it a few weeks ago with high fructose corn syrup is food. I've been saying this for years about food. I've gotten a lot of gaffe for it.

KING: Which is?

MAHER: I said for years that food was probably worse for you than smoking, and certainly is bad. Now the statistics finally back me up.

KING: Food in general.

MAHER: The food that Americans eat. Americans get huge amount of calories, they're malnourished. This is where our illness comes from. And this is Bill Clinton's problem. I mean, people do not realize what is going to kill them. It's the food. I'm telling you. The call is coming from inside the house. It's not going to be (UNINTELLIGIBLE) or monkeypox, West Nile, it is the food. It is not something -- you know, shark attacks, it's the buffalo wings. I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it. This is what people are not getting about the way we live. That our food is killing us. Food is either poison or medicine. I've seen people on your show talk about this. I saw Naomi Judd so don't look at me like I'm crazy.

KING: No, you're not.

MAHER: We had this massive -- the president signed into law this massive drug entitlement program, Medicare, because it's important to keep our seniors high. And while we were debating this, which is going to cost trillions of dollars, nobody ever stood up and said, why are we so sick? Why do we need trillions of dollars worth of prescription drugs. And do you know what the top four or five prescription drugs are?

They're all anti-bloating medicines, antacids, digestive aids, all things to put out the fire in our stomachs from the poison we call lunch.

KING: But people like it. The problem with fat is it tastes good.

MAHER: But it's never been off the chart like it is now. Really, I'm telling you. And when I mean the chart, I mean it literally. This is what I was talking about with high fructose corn syrup. If you chart the rise, the 3,000 percent in high fructose corn syrup, it goes exactly with the rise in obesity in America. And it's not surprising people have all their coronary blockages at the age of 58.

KING: But he's going to bounce back.

MAHER: Oh, Clinton? Please. Just drive a stake through that guy's heart. He will be around and they need him.

How High Fructose Corn Syrup Makes you Gain Weight

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