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Posted on 03/22/2010 9:01:26 AM PDT by decimon
A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: 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.
In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides. The researchers say the work sheds light on the factors contributing to obesity trends in the United States.
"Some people have claimed that high-fructose corn syrup is no different than other sweeteners when it comes to weight gain and obesity, but our results make it clear that this just isn't true, at least under the conditions of our tests," said psychology professor Bart Hoebel, who specializes in the neuroscience of appetite, weight and sugar addiction. "When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese -- every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight."
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Hadn’t yet seen that thread. I had no idea all that good for you stuff was in it, I just love maple syrup. Due to cost, we use it sparingly, but I wish we could use it more.
I admit that I occasionally like a soda. But I noticed years ago that drinking HFCS soda gave me a run down feeling and so I largely stopped drinking it. It wasn’t until a year or so ago when I had to work in Europe for a bit that I noticed that cokes tasted like I remembered them tasting when I was a kid. Now that Pepsi is running it’s “legacy” cola and mountain dew, I’ve noticed the same thing although I’m not that fond of pepsi any more.
The only difference between American coca cola and European coca cola is that the EU bans HFCS and the sodas are made with sugar. Now I have about one a week, but it is the sugar variety coca cola bottled for the mexican market that you can find at kroger and a few other stores.
The government wants to control the food supply.
They already do. The use of high fructose corn syrup was the economic alternative to artificially high Federally supported sugar price. Allow drink, candy makers to do the economic thing by getting rid of the tariff on imported sugar and the problem solves itself.
Thought I would save a few posts for others.
I agree with you. I love it when policies collide. Save the sugar growers or improve health?
I know, lets just ban all sugar imports (and sugar yielding imports like beets)and only buy AMERICAN sugar. As the cost of sugar laden goods skyrocket we will all get healthier. Plus we will create 100’s of thousand new, well paying Sweet American jobs.
This is why I think there is something we don't understand yet about our diets and what has changed. Hormones in meat? It could be a number of things, but it has come about too quickly to be explained in standard ways.
We all know scrawny teenage boys who can inhale forty dollars of groceries, play video games all weekend, and never gain a pound. It's just not as simple as calories in and calories out.
For some yes, for most I disagree.
This increase in obese children came on rather suddenly. To my eyes, it took about five-ten years in the late nineties and early twenty-ought for this to come about. This is why I think there is something we don't understand yet about our diets and what has changed. Hormones in meat? It could be a number of things, but it has come about too quickly to be explained in standard ways.
I think its about he whole processed food thing combined with a sedentary lifestyle. I also think this started about twenty to thirty years ago. It's been a slower process than you state but I think the curve has gone up sharply in the last ten years.
I doubt that more than five percent of Americans eat a diet that consists of less than fifty percent processed food. It's become just too hard for families to make three meals a day like they used to. Even going to a restaurant doesn't guarantee whole healthy non-processed food.
Obesity is becoming THE most serious health issue today. In ten years if the trend isn't reversed there will be only about thirty percent of the people left who can fend for themselves because of obesity and its complications.
My wife thinks that raw eggs are a deadly poison. The idea of making IC out of it would freak her out.
I used to feel the same way. I still would never consume raw egg whites or unpasteurized raw egg yolks. But slipping egg yolks into ice cream or smoothies is one way to experience the health benefits with out gagging.
We also now drink raw milk, something that used to freak me out until I learned that it is much healthier than pasteurized milk. Tastes a million times better, too.
Well, then. Thank goodness for fuel grade ethanol.
Thanks, bfl.
Cheers!
“How do you explain this?”
Portion size.
We used to drink a 8 or 12oz soft drink as a treat occasionally. Now it’s a common more than daily occurrence for some. And they drink 32 oz at a time.
And look at most other food’s that are consumed. Restaurants serve huge portions to people.
People eat huge amounts of calories in many ways. It’s quite disgusting when you think about.
Every pound of body fat is like carrying 4 sticks of butter around on your body.
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