What’s Worse Than Sugar?

[Harold]

Found this article rather interesting. The difference in the way sugar and high fructose corn are metabolized may explain a lot.

Today annual consumption of the sweetener tops 60 pounds per person in this country, up from only about half a pound in 1970, the U.S. Agriculture Department reports. Americans swallow more of it than regular sugar.

"There's something important in the fact that the increase in the use of high-fructose corn syrup coincides with the obesity epidemic in this country," says George Bray, M.D., a diabetes expert and professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge,

Full Article (http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/yourhealth/Articles/a2004-04-22-sugar.html)

[sand-not-oil]

Hey Harold thanks for the article, my earlier post about high fructose corn syrup wasn't totally off the mark then.

This quote from your article really got my attention:

'Other research indicates that high-fructose corn syrup does not stimulate insulin production, which usually creates a sense of being full.'

I hadn't come across this little titbit before, and as a T2 It makes me wonder if this has something to do with my lack of stimulation in the insulin production area.

[Harold]

Yes, and the paragraph before that one says fructose goes directly to the liver, and "that the liver releases enzymes that instruct the body to store fat (and that may elevate triglyceride and "bad" cholesterol levels)." Which slows fat burning and may increase weight. Unfortunatly the article implies a lot, but does not offer any research or studies. For one I would like to see some. The list for foods without looks like it's going to be a lot shorter than the one with.