<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/06/corn-syrup-s-new-disguise.aspx>Corn
Syrup's New
<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/06/corn-syrup-s-new-disguise.aspx>Disguise
corn, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, HFCS, sweeteners, s
According to the Corn Refiners Association,
high-fructose corn syrup contains the same amount
of calories as cane and beet sugar, is
metabolized by the body the same way as these
sweeteners are, and is an all-natural product.
Their current ad campaign insists that
high-fructose corn syrup is just like honey,
which is made by enzymes in a bee's abdomen -- as
opposed to the enzymes and acids in centrifuges,
ion exchange columns and liquid chromatographers
used to make high-fructose corn syrup.
High-fructose corn syrup could be all-natural, if
cornstarch happened to fall into a vat of
alpha-amylase, soak there for a while, then
trickle into another vat of glucoamylase, get
strained to remove the Aspergillus fungus likely
growing on top, and then find its way into some
industrial-grade D-xylose isomerase.
High-fructose corn syrup is indeed similar to
cane sugar in that it is about 50 percent
fructose and 50 percent glucose. The American
Medical Association issued a statement explaining
that "high-fructose syrup does not appear to
contribute more to obesity than other caloric
sweeteners" ... but they also said that
"consumers [should] limit the amount of all added
caloric sweeteners to no more than 32 grams of
sugar daily." Most sodas contain about 40 grams of high-fructose corn syrup.
Sources:
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<http://www.livescience.com/health/081021-bad-corn-syrup.html>Live
Science October 21, 2008
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
By now you’re probably familiar with the
advertisements claiming that high fructose corn
syrup (HFCS) is “no worse for you than sugar.”
What gets me about this campaign, run by the Corn
Refiners Association, is this: What decent food
product has ever needed to spend up to $30
million to convince consumers it’s inherently safe to eat?
The mere fact that these ads are defending corn
syrup as a natural, healthy, and safe sweetener
should be a tipoff to all that something is missing from the picture.
Where are the ads defending the use of sugar?
Where are the ads defending salt? Both of these
have obvious health ramifications if consumed in
excess, but no one has ever needed to spend
millions to convince you they’re no worse than
something else, and that it’s okay to keep consuming them.
The Truth about High Fructose Corn Syrup
The truth is, scientists have linked the rising
HFCS consumption to the epidemics of obesity,
diabetes and metabolic syndrome in the U.S., and
medical researchers have pinpointed various
health dangers associated with the consumption of
HFCS compared to regular sugar. This is why the
corn industry is now scrambling to save face and
profits – NOT because it’s really okay to consume
an average of 59 pounds a year of this stuff.
The American Medical Association issued a
statement on June 17, 2008, stating that
"high-fructose syrup does not appear to
contribute more to obesity than other caloric
sweeteners." However, they also recommend you
limit the amount of ALL added caloric sweeteners
to no more than 32 grams of sugar daily, which,
by the way, comes out to just over 25.5 pounds of sugar per year.
The AMA’s recommendation is over
five-and-a-half-times less than the current
yearly sugar consumption of the average American
– which currently weighs in around
<http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB33/EIB33.pdf>142
pounds a year -- but is still five times higher
than my own recommendation of 5 pounds of added sugar per year.
Their evaluation that HFCS is not a major
contributor to obesity is puzzling, considering
the fact that the number one source of calories
in America is soda, which contains about 40 grams
of HFCS per can – more than the AMA’s recommended
daily maximum for ALL caloric sweeteners.
And that’s without adding in all the corn syrup
now found in every type of processed,
pre-packaged food you can think of. In fact, the
use of high fructose corn syrup in the U.S. diet
increased a staggering 10,673 percent between
1970 and 2005, according to the latest USDA
<http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB33/EIB33.pdf>Dietary
Assessment of Major Trends in U.S. Food
Consumption report (whereas sucrose consumption
declined by 38 percent), far exceeding changes in
intake of any other food or food group.
And what kinds of foods account for more than 90
percent of the money Americans spend on their
meals? You guessed it: processed food.
All in all, according to the
<http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB33/EIB33.pdf>USDA’s
report, about one-quarter of the calories
consumed by the average American is in the form
of added sugars – the majority of which comes from high fructose corn syrup.
Folks, this is a prescription for disaster.
Why High Fructose Corn Syrup IS Worse For You than Sugar
If you need to lose weight, or if you want to
avoid diabetes and heart disease, fructose is one
type of sugar you’ll want to avoid, particularly
in the form of high-fructose corn syrup.
Part of what makes HFCS such an unhealthy product
is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far
more rapidly than any other sugar.
According to Dr. Elizabeth Parks, associate
professor of clinical nutrition at UT
Southwestern Medical Center, and lead author of a
recent
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?orig_db=PubMed&db=pubmed&cmd=Search&term=%22The%20Journal%20of%20nutrition%22%5BJour%5D%20AND%202008%5Bpdat%5D%20AND%20Parks%5Bauthor%5D>study
on fructose in the Journal of Nutrition:
"Our study shows for the first time the
surprising speed with which humans make body fat
from fructose. Once you start the process of fat
synthesis from fructose, it's hard to slow it
down. The bottom line of this study is that
fructose very quickly gets made into fat in the body."
How does this happen?
Well, most fats are formed in your liver, and
when sugar enters your liver, it decides whether
to store it, burn it or turn it into fat.
Fructose, however, bypasses this process and turns full speed ahead into fat.
"It's basically sneaking into the rock concert
through the fence," Dr. Parks said in a previous
interview with Science Daily. "It's a
less-controlled movement of fructose through
these pathways that causes it to contribute to
greater triglyceride [i.e. fat] synthesis.”
Ironically, the very products that most people
rely on to lose weight -- low-fat diet foods --
are often those that contain the most fructose!
Even “natural” diet foods often contain fructose as a sweetener.
How You Can Drastically Improve Your Overall Health
If you want to drastically improve your health,
the answer is quite simple. To lose weight and
reduce your risk of developing metabolic
syndrome, diabetes, and heart disease, STOP
drinking soda and processed fruit juices that are
sweetened with about eight teaspoons of fructose
per serving! Switch to
<http://www.mercola.com/article/water.htm>pure
water as your beverage of choice and you will be
well on your way to better health.
Genetic factors clearly play an important role in
the development of obesity. However, the rapidity
with which the current epidemic of obesity has
hit the United States and the rest of the world
makes diet and lifestyle a far more likely explanation.
To preserve your health you need to focus your
diet on
<http://www.mercola.com/nutritionplan/index2.htm>whole
foods based on your personal biochemistry, and,
if you do purchase packaged foods, become an avid
label reader and severely limit your consumption
of goods that contain corn syrup as a main ingredient.
When in a Pinch, Choose Your Poison
However, like most areas in life, when presented
with two poisons, choose carefully.
Even though HFCS is clearly something you want to
avoid, it is not as bad as artificial sweeteners,
which damage your health even more rapidly than
HFCS. (I spent several years researching
artificial sweeteners for my book
<http://www.mercola.com/sweet-deception-aspartame/index.htm>Sweet
Deception, which goes into these issues in great detail).
So, for example, if you have to choose between
soda sweetened with HFCS (regular soda) or
artificial sweeteners (diet soda), choose HFCS.
The best and safest sweetener (although illegal
to use as a food additive, according to the FDA)
would be the herb stevia. Personally I use a
liquid stevia to flavor my
<http://products.mercola.com/tulsi-tea/>Tulsi tea
and it is one of the most delightful drinks I have ever had.
Related Articles:
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Debate About Dangers of High-Fructose Corn Syrup
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Dramatic Example of How the Food Industry Lies to You About Corn
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Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Cause Disease
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