High-Fructose Corn Syrup is a Bitter Sweet

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Is it glucose or is it fructose that can derail your health.  Can one be worst than the other?  Well according to University of California researchers designed a study to find out. They took 23 overweight or obsessed individuals ranging in age from 43 to 70 and controlled what they ate. For two weeks they got a high-carb (55%) moderate- fat (30%) diet that was balanced and the diet gave them no more energy than they would spend exercising.

After they had everything measured such as their heart disease risk factors, blood fats, cholesterol, and weight they were allowed to eat whatever they wanted. The one thing that each person had to include was three sweetened drinks every day. This drink gave the volunteers 25% of their recommended daily energy intake.

Half the subjects drank drinks that were sweetened with pure glucose. The rest of the volunteers had drinks sweetened with pure fructose. At the same time the volunteers were tested for heart risk factors. After eight weeks the volunteers continued to drink the same beverages that they had been, but they were returned to an energy-balanced diet.

It took only two weeks after they started their drinks that the difference became apparent. The volunteers that drank the fructose sweetened beverages showed signs of increased risk of hear disease. The rest who drank glucose sweetened drinks did not. The fructose drinkers LDL “bad” cholesterol blood fats increased. Their insulin sensitivity decreased which meant their diabetes risk was increasing.

The fructose drinkers gained about 3 pounds while the glucose group had not gained any weight. The study says basically high-fructose syrup posses a threat to your health. Of course everyone in the beverage and medical community said it is too early to draw any conclusions. So everyone has the green light to continue consuming these drinks. High-fructose syrup is bitter sweet, because it consists of a sweet taste with a bitter aftertaste. The bitter after taste lingers for years as you encounter weight and health problem.

They said they do not yet know the safe level of consumption of these substances. How about there is no safe level. The only thing is some people will poison themselves faster with a higher dose. It does not even pay to test these substances, the evidence is already available. The country consumes lots of high-fructose corn syrup in drinks, cereals, frozen food, baked goods, and ketchup. This is an inexpensive sweetener, so what do you think will be in the processed food that you purchase from the store?

Remember table sugar is similar to a 50-50 combination of fructose and glucose. It really is simple, refined sugar and high- fructose corn syrup are processed sources of sweeteners with nothing whole or natural about them. It is bitter sweet fact that these ingredients are a danger to your health. No amount of studies will vindicate high-fructose syrup and make it a safe product for consumption. High-fructose syrup is a bitter sweet for all that consume it.

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