All sugars are not created equal when it comes to how our bodies metabolize the sweeteners, a new study suggests.
People who drank beverages sweetened with fructose, but not glucose, showed an increase in intra-abdominal fat and blood lipid levels and decreased sensitivity to the hormone insulin, researchers reported in this week’s issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The findings suggest that fructose-sweetened beverages can interfere with how the body handles fat, leading to medical conditions that increase susceptibility to heart attacks and strokes.
The results could be important given that in 2005, the average American consumed 64 kilograms of added sugar, a sizeable proportion of which came through drinking soft drinks, said study author Peter Havel of the University of California at Davis and his colleagues.
Consumption of sugars and sweeteners in the U.S. went up by 19 per cent between 1970 and 2005, according to a commentary accompanying the study.
Increased use of high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener in pop in the last few decades has been proposed as one dietary change fueling obesity in developed countries, Matthias Tschöp and Susanna Hofmann of the University of Cincinnati-College of Medicine noted in their commentary.
These sorts of posts and articles bring the HFCS PR folks out of the woodwork to debunk all these studies. It’s fun to watch them scramble.
Found by Tom Hofstatter.
I know many of you are well meaning, but the facts presented here and elsewhere are more than a little deficient. I have no agenda, but will try to set things straight. At one time I developed a process to make HFCS.
HFCS is not a sufficiently descriptive term, in fact there are at least two types of HFCS, HFCS55 and HFCS90, the number indicating how much of G and F are in each on a percent weight basis in the mixture.
Most commercial plants that make HFCS55 which is what is blended into food, use HFCS55 because it is approximately the same perceived sweetness as cane or beet (sucrose) sugar on a weight basis.
But they make the HFCS55 by taking a HFCS90 product (that they create from purifying HFCS42 through a step called adsorptive separation) and blending the HFCS90 with HFCS42 back to the HFCS55 concentration for sweetness as stated above.
But this blending step creates some issuesthat I have not seen reported anywhere and I believe is the real problem. Let me explain.
The HFCS90 is sweeter than sucrose and could be used in soft drinks in lower quantities, but is it not. Why? Because the folks at ADM and AE Staley Corn Sweetners would rather sell more product on a weight or volume basis by diluting this HFCS90 back to HFCS55 with the unsaleable HFCS42.
Note that the HFCS55 has approx 45% glucose and the HFCS90 has approx 10% glucose. Also note that fructose and glucose are equal in caloric value. So if one used LESS HFCS90 than HFCS55 the Coke or whatever would be lower in calories, first. And more importantly the Coke would have less glucose. Read on.
Glucose is NOT great for the body, since it metabolizes FAST and goes right to the bloodstream where it supposed to be used. Once there, when ingested all at once, it can cause BIG problems especially in diabetics and those prone to diabetes, since the body needs to call out the pancreas to make insulin to process it. If the insulin is not there or slow to come, the glucose can destroy nerve tissue, in the limbs and retina. NOT GOOD.
If the ADM’s and AE Staley’s of the world would sell and if Coke/Pepsi/7-Ups would insist on buying HFCS90, the soft drinks and other products would have less glucose and more (on a percentage basis, but less on an absolute basis) of the slowly metabolizing fructose.
This would reduce the calorie content of the food, and prevent a large slug of the raw glucose from being ingested.
But that would be more costly on a pennies per can basis, and the companies that make the HFCS55 and the Coke et al would not like that.
So we are “blessed” with HFCS55, which causes obesity and diabetes. And NONE of the so-called experts that wright about this have commented on this point. Why?
I suspect that Coke, ADMs and AE Staley et al are silent on this since they want to have it their way and maximize profits. They will come clean but only if and when the FDA gets the story right and forces them to. Unlikely.
http://www.highfructosecornpoison.com