subject: Dieters Cut High Fructose Corn Syrup to Lose Weight Faster by:Adam Eisenhart [print this page] A large item on any dieter's list of "do not eat" foods should clearly be anything that contains high fructose corn syrup. This sweetener is cheaper, sweeter and easier to mix than sugar and has been increasingly used by processed food companies over the last couple of decades to cut manufacturing costs. High fructose corn syrup costs a fraction of the price of table sugar.
Many people believe that the rise in use of high fructose corn syrup has paralleled the rise in obesity in the US and other first world countries during at least the last 20 years. This stuff is found everywhere even including baked goods, ketchup, and "fruit drinks" like Ocean Spray. Just look on the back of a food container and there it is usually right at the top in the ingredients section. Remember that the closer to the top in the ingredients section, the more of the ingredient in the product.
It is important to note the difference between the amount of fructose in raw fruit and the much stronger processed High Fructose Corn Syrup. Raw fruit contains small amounts of fructose, and a dieter may eat several pieces of raw fruit per day and still be far out of the danger zone for the negative effects of processed HFCS.
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is very different from sugar in the way that it is processed in the body and can be made into body fat much faster than regular sugaraccording to a study at UT Southwestern Medical Center that appears in a recent issue of the Journal of Nutrition.
The lead researcher on the study, Dr. Elizabeth Parks, said that the team's findings suggest that just as important as the amount of calories and carbohydrates a dieter takes in, monitoring the type of carbohydrate may be just as essential.
Health guidelines recommend limiting the ingestion of processed carbohydrates to help keep the excess weight off, and since many processed foods contain HFCS, it is a good idea to stay away from them. The new study increases the importance of following the recommendation for any dieter that is serious.
"Our study shows for the first time the surprising speed with which humans make body fat from fructose," Dr. Parks said. Fructose, glucose and sucrose, which is a blend of fructose and glucose, are each a form of sugar but they are metabolized in the body very differently."All three can be made into triglycerides, a form of body fat; however, once you start the process of fat synthesis from fructose, it's hard to slow it down," she said.
Triglycerides, a form of fat, is primarily formed in the liver which is the decision maker in the body as to decide when to store glucose (sugars) as glycogen use it for energy or convert it into triglycerides. When the liver is fed large amounts of glucose, it will move this glucose to the side in order to process it at a later time.
But fructose acts differently in the body. It bypasses the liver and enters the metabolic pathway from a different place downstream. "It's basically sneaking into the rock concert through the fence," Dr. Parks said. "It's a less-controlled movement of fructose through these pathways that causes it to contribute to greater triglyceride synthesis. The bottom line of this study is that fructose very quickly gets made into fat in the body."
"The message from this study is powerful because body fat synthesis was measured immediately after the sweet drinks were consumed," Dr. Parks said. "The carbohydrates came into the body as sugars, the liver took the molecules apart like tinker toys, and put them back together to build fats. All this happened within four hours after the fructose drink. As a result, when the next meal was eaten, the lunch fat was more likely to be stored than burned."
Dr. Parks discourages dieters from eliminating raw fruit from their diets but stated that people should limit the amount of processed foods in the diet altogether.
Recent television commercials run by the world's corn growers emphasize that high fructose corn syrup is "made from corn" as if that fact makes it natural and healthy. Well insecticides, insulation, fiberglass,glue, paper and ethanol are also made of corn, but it is not recommended that you eat them.
It should be noted that the study quoted here was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Cargill Higher Education Fund and the Sugar Association. We believe that the support of the Sugar Association for the study does not in any way minimize the truth behind the warning about High Fructose Corn Syrup.
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