High fructose corn syrup isn’t metabolized by the body in the way that sucrose is; hfcs goes immediately to fat.
I wouldn’t trust anything from the Corn Refiner’s Association. This is a propaganda piece that reminds me of the tobacco companies’ ads in the 60’s claiming that smoking wasn’t harmful.
Seems obvious, no? But then, we are stupid species, and usually just believe what we want to.
It never gets used for the body's immediate energy requirements? Does it ever get converted into glycogen? Does it really just go "immediately to fat?"
Does it ever get to pass "Go" and collect $200?
1. Sucrose is composed of fructose and glucose in a 50/50 ratio.
2. HFCS is composed of fructose and glucose in about the same ratio as sucrose (either 55/45 or 42/58).
3. The fructose and glucose in HFCS and sucrose are chemically identical.
4. The fructose and glucose in HFCS and sucrose are absorbed by the body from the gut in exactly the same way.
5. Glucose is metabolized by the same metabolic pathway in the body regardless of whether it comes from corn syrup, cane sugar, clover, sugar beet, honey, or a glucose IV drip.
6. The same is true for fructose.
7. There is very little de novo lipogenesis in humans.
8. The increase in fat deposits in the context of a hypercaloric diet is due to substrate oxidation being switched away from fats, for which there is relatively unlimited storage, to glucose, for which there is relatively limited storage. Most of the fat on one's hips was most recently fat that crossed one's lips.
Yeah, what a coincidence that the CRA whose members make money off of the demand for corn finds no problem with HFCS.
Once I started avoiding HFCS, I lost 30 pounds the first year. And it’s in everything so very hard to avoid - have to make some things from scratch. I didn’t do it for weight loss, I did it because of those terrible sinking spells, joint pain etc. Those are gone now too.
People under 40 or maybe it’s 30 by now, who haven’t abused their bodies with HFCS for long enough, or those who don’t have diabetes in their families won’t know what I’m talking about, but the negative effects of HFCS are very real.