HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) is a highly concentrated, sweeter alternative to regular white sugar. In chemical terms, or overall math terms, it’s five percent more fructose and five percent less glucose (compared to the consistency of regular white sugar). This could make a difference and alter the way food is digested by the body. That’s just my thought on this, so I’d sooner add a heaping tsp. of white sugar to my tea instead of the HFCS.
Despite the different chemical make-up, the article states that HFCS is not detrimental to your health.
The thing is, HFCS has not been officially declared the culprit of obesity and as such is still approved by the FDA. Yet soda pop, potato chips, and the wide availability of high-calorie convenience foods have been blamed. The industry sweetens the consumer’s palate just enough so we buy a little faster and for convenience sake, and HFCS is their first choice in additives. How can that not be a culprit involved in the health and obesity problems we’re facing today? It makes me want to shout: STOP! I want to put on the sugar myself… Let’ file a petition: Who else…
Post your comment 
see yahoo comments:
Article Excerpt: health.yahoo.com
One myth about HFCS is that it alters your metabolism in such a way that promotes fat storage and increases your appetite. The thought behind this is that, unlike glucose, fructose somehow keeps the body from releasing enough of the satiety hormones we need to feel full. But this is nonsense: The makeup of HFCS (55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose) is close to that of white sugar (50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose), which means that our bodies digest HFCS and sugar in very similar ways.
Technorati Tags: HFCS
Related posts:
{ 1 trackback }
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
I agree that HFCS is somehow related to the obesity epidemic in this country. After all, this product is found in everything and yes, it is not natural. Of course our body will metabolize it differently. I wonder who’s paying this lady?
Hi,
My HFCS google alert picked up your post. A 5%
difference on a tip or purchase price may not
be a big difference but in terms of sugar ratios
you need to do the math differently. All national
brands of soda are sweetened with HFCS 55 (55%
fructose:45% glucose) This means that there is
55/45=12.2% extra fructose in every can of soda yyou drink We’ve all been following the lliterature and know that it is the fructose mmoiety that has long term health hazards. But HHFCS is sinister for another reason. Table ssugar, sucrose, is a disaccharide which requires tthe enzyme sucrase to cleave the sugars. HFCS is jjust a mixture of the two sugars. When you ingest sugar, sucrase provides enzymatic control which is sensitive to hormonal, regulatory, and appetite control mechanisms. When you ingest HFCS the sugars are shunted directly to your blood stream.
HFCS has invaded our food supply. Courtesy of the Corn Refiners Assoc., go to
http://www.corn.org/NSFC2006.pdf P29-30 list all the
foods and products that contain HFCS. A few surprises even for me: lunch meat, soups, cough
syrups.
StopHFCS.com lists foods that are HFCS-free.
Take care.