Why We’re Fat – HFCS
Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published an article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that discusses the 1000% (yes you read that right, 1000%) increase in the average consumption of high fructose corn syrup (aka: isoglucose) from 1970 to 1990 and it’s biological effects on human metabolism.
“The increased use of HFCS in the United States mirrors the rapid increase in obesity. The digestion, absorption, and metabolism of fructose differ from those of glucose. Hepatic metabolism of fructose favors de novo lipogenesis. In addition, unlike glucose, fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion or enhance leptin production.”
In other words, consuming corn syrup fructose does not suppress your hunger. So you’re still hungry and are very likely to continue eating until either the metabolism of other foods you consume sends that “stop eating” signal to your brain or you become physically stuffed. Given the increasing predominance of passive lifestyles in America, this enormous amount of calories consumed will not get expended during the day and will be converted to body fat. It should be no surprise that we now have an obesity epidemic on our hands.
What do the scientists at Louisiana State and UNC-CH say about high fructose syrup? “There is a distinct likelihood that the increased consumption of HFCS in beverages may be linked to the increase in obesity.”
[Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition]
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What is wrong with us, the FDA, and our government,? Yes it is a growing number of people rebelling and protesting against the poison found in most all our food. It is such an undetected and slow killer, it goes unnoticed and the rebelling isn’t going fast enough. Many people will die before proper legislation stops this killing epidemic.
How did this happen? Before the Cuban embargo and other factors that caused the cost of sugar to dramatically rise. I particularly remember a public outcry against an extraordinary upsurge in the cost of sugar around 1973 – 1975. Not long after that, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP quietly became a more and more popular replacement for sugar.
Just a few years ago Readers Digest exposed the direct consequences of the proliferation of high fructose corn syrup into above 90% of all food processed for consumption in the United States. The statistics show a direct and very significant correlation between the increased use of high fructose corn syrup and the increased accounts of obesity in the United States.
To add to concerns that should have been acted on by the FDA, it was also found that high fructose corn syrup can not be metabolized as well as sugar can be in simple exercise. High fructose corn syrup is converted to fat molecules in a much shorter time, before it can be metabolized. Such studies have concluded that because of this, high fructose corn syrup is the one most single factor contributing to obesity in the United States today.
Noting how body fat contributes to our propensity for other illnesses; such as diabetes, joint damage, blood clots, varicose veins, strokes and much more, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP SHOULD BE HANDLED AS THE NUMBER ONE KILLER IN THE UNITED STATED.
It may seem cost effective in the food industry but when you figure what it is doing to your country, is it really cost effective? Look at your overweight employees and their illnesses related to weight or aggravations related to weight. High fructose corn syrup increases their appetite, so exercise is defeated both by loss of better metabolism and poor willpower for eating less.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS?