**(Can you believe how many products contain HFCS?)**
There has always been a debate on wether HFCS is a cause of obesity, but recently researchers at Princeton University discovered that HFCS prompts considerably more weight gain than other sweeteners. Also, leads to abnormal increase in body fat, especially in the abdomen.
The three main types of sugars are sucrose, fructose, and dextrose. Both dextrose and sucrose our body is able to break down before they reach our liver, but our body is not able to break down fructose before it reaches our liver. HFCS contains an even higher concentration of fructose and this causes our liver to release fatty acids into our bloodstream. The flood of fatty acids causes our muscle tissue to develop insulin resistance. This leads to diabetes and other health problems.
Also, fructose causes our body to burn sugar instead of fat (the other types of sugar burn fat). When consuming fructose our metabolism actually stores fat.
The reason so many products now contain HFCS is because corn is a lot cheaper than sugar, and back in the 1970s the government wanted to make food cheaper for Americans. Also, major corporations are all about making a profit. Unfortunately, the causes of using man-made ingredients in our food is making our country obese and unhealthy, which only leads to higher medical care costs.
Go to your pantry, refrigerator, or grocery store and check the ingredients of your favorite foods to see if it contains HFCS.
Do you think you could go without eating/drinking these foods or do we need to try and get this ingredient taken out of our foods?
Unfortunately, it's hard to find stuff without HFCS. And I just realized that HFCS is what's in most sodas instead of sugar. Very good info. in this blog. Great job.
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