That's not long term.
Consuming fructose-sweetened, not glucose-sweetened, beverages increases visceral adiposity and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese humans. Visceral adiposity means belly fat.
HFCS started being used as a sweetener in soft drinks in the early 1970s in the U.S. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease started being diagnosed about a decade later.
I do know that consuming high-fructose corn sweetener cleans me out like Tid-Y-Bowl.
Number one of all time is the DDT ban. Hundreds of millions of dead people from that one.
I like, and agree with the article. I don’t buy into HFCS scaremongering.
As usual, the gay community didn’t police itself when AIDS became a killer and instead ‘heterosexual AIDS’ was the cause célèbre especially with a high profile case like Magic Johnson.
Except the epidemic predicted never happened, condoms or no condoms. Rather than admire heterosexuals’ good fortune, the militant gays attacked anyone who pointed out the myth.
I can’t even let this one go by. I have been studying both sides of this debate for the last 25 years. I would ask you to consider the facts of just one of the, “life saving vaccines”, for Pertussis aka whooping cough. Between 1900 and 1935, mortality rates due to whooping cough dropped by 79 percent in the United States. Yet, the vaccine (DTP and DTaP) wasn’t introduced until 1940.
Today, those who have been “immunized” are the most susceptible to whooping cough. Researchers with the CDC publicly stated in 2002 that, “the number of infants dying from whooping cough is rising, despite record high vaccination levels.” In 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recognized the trend too. In the article titled, “Whooping Cough Vaccine not as Powerful as Thought,” the publication highlighted a recent cluster of 18 whooping cough-infected students. Seventeen of those students – 95% of those infected – had been immunized with five doses of DTaP vaccine.”
This is repeated vaccine after vaccine. The most damaging as of late is the HPV. The horror stories of this vaccine are terrifying. The benefits minimal. The lead researcher for Merck on this vaccine turned against the vaccine when she saw the outcomes. Please do your due diligence before immunizing those you love. I have MD friends who do not immunize their children, they aren’t drinking the kool aid the government is giving them.
Since fructose is sweeter than sugar, the total quantity of sugar used can be decreased to get the same level of sweet taste. Thus, anything made with higher quantities of fructose should have less sugar overall. This may not equate to fewer calories, since other ingredients may be added to make up the bulk lost by decreasing the sugar.
I wouldn’t put too much weight on the slightly different metabolic pathways taken by fructose vs. glucose. Humans have always consumed both sugars. The only thing going on with many of these studies is that the metabolism of fructose has been scrutinized closely, and interpreted as if its consumption is something new. It is not. Honey (identical to HFCS, but with bee flavoring) was consumed long before humans discovered sucrose.