[Red Badger]

A Princeton University research team, including (from left) undergraduate Elyse Powell, psychology professor Bart Hoebel, visiting research associate Nicole Avena and graduate student Miriam Bocarsly, has demonstrated that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup -- a sweetener found in many popular sodas -- gain significantly more weight than those with access to water sweetened with table sugar, even when they consume the same number of calories. The work may have important implications for understanding obesity trends in the United States. (Photo: Denise Applewhite) Photos for news media

When male rats were given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow, the animals gained much more weight than male rats that received water sweetened with table sugar, or sucrose, along with the standard diet. The concentration of sugar in the sucrose solution was the same as is found in some commercial soft drinks, while the high-fructose corn syrup solution was half as concentrated as most sodas, including the orange soft drink shown here. (Photo: Denise Applewhite)

[dfwgator]

Duh!

[agrarianlady]

It’s poison. So is sugar. Treat it as such and you’ll see the fat melt off your body in a few months.

[Red Badger]

It’s really simple.

Sugar is metabolized immediately as an energy booster.
High fructose corn syrup is stored in the body as fat.

I suspect that this study is the reason for all the commercials touting ‘corn sweetener’ as being no different than sugar, from the CORN LOBBY of course.

We, in America are caught between two powerful lobbies in DC. The Corn Lobby and the Sugar Lobby.........

[sickoflibs]

HA-HA. alcohol causes intoxication is big news too,

[Huck]

Word to the wise--food purveyors are starting to use the name "CORN SUGAR" for high fructose corn syrup. If it says "corn sugar", it's high fructose corn syrup.

I wonder if anyone has done studies on the ubiquitious flavor additive citric acid. Is it a coincidence that citric acid is in almost all processed foods, and the RX shelves are full of Previcid, Prilosec, et al?

[loungitude]

.

[Jack Hydrazine]

How do you fatten up hogs? You feed them corn! DUH!!!

[verga]

In other news Water is wet and Ice is cold

[Mr. Lucky]

So, maybe the application of corn starch to the production of fuel grade ethanol isn’t such a bad idead after all.

[Prokopton]

Blame the government. U.S. protectionist policies led to the increase in prices for cane sugar and the rise in the use of HFCS. The government is complicit in the increase in obesity and the resulting destruction of peoples health just like they are responsible for destruction of our economy.

GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM.

[GraceG]

I blame the democrats and the RINOS with all their “Corn Subsidies” which have made it fashionable for the big agribusinesses who are in bed with government to push their Corn Sugar on everybody and artifically pushing the regular sugar growers (sugar beet and sugar cane) growers out of the market.

[GOPJ]

ping

[Mr. Impatient]

In other news, after extensive research and billions of dollars spent, scientists have discovered that removing the head of any living creature may cause death.

Paid for by your tax dollars, of course.

[frposty]

Maybe someone can tell us of some sucrose-sweetened food items we can buy. Are there any drinks that are sucrose-sweetened?

[ken21]

this has been evident for decades.

the industry first worked on the so-called “high fructose” corn syrup in the ‘50s and ‘60s,

and then a japanese researcher finished the work in the ‘70s.

then they marketed it in “health food” stores to get the upscale consumers.

later, it gained wide acceptance,

ubiquitous in consumer products.

[onedoug]

sugary ping....

[Neoliberalnot]

More corn going to more ethanol production would help eliminate this massive problem.

Added sugar in any form is bad. Dad told us in the 60s don’t eat anything white—sugar, white flour, and salt.

[Crucial]

So does it it take less HFCS to give food the same level of sweetness or does it take the same amount or more?

[Onelifetogive]

Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

OLTG's Rules of Life #1: "Basically every problem in life can be traced back to some action of government."

In this case, high import tariffs on sugar and subsidies for corn.

[katiedidit1]

How much did this “scientific” study cost the taxpayers?