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High fructose corn syrup is the devil!
« on: Aug 1^st, 2005, 12:02pm »

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164110,00.html
A sweetener commonly used in soft drinks and other foods may lead to more body fat than drinks sweetened with plain sugar.

A new study suggests that fructose may alter the body's metabolism in a way that prompts it to store body fat.

Researchers say the findings may help explain the recently established link between rising soft drink popularity and obesity rates in the U.S. and other parts of the world.

"Our study shows how fat mass increases as a direct consequence of soft drink consumption," says researcher Matthias Tschöp, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, in a news release.

Fructose is a sweetener found naturally in fruits and honey and is widely used as a sweetener in soft drinks, fruit juices, and cereal. In soft drinks, fructose is usually found in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, which contains 55 percent fructose.

Fructose: Stealth Fat Builder?
In the study, researchers compared the effects of feeding mice fructose-sweetened water, a soft drink sweetened with sucrose (table sugar), a diet soft drink, or water. The mice were allowed to drink as much as they wanted of their designated beverage.

The mice that drank the fructose-sweetened water gained significantly more body fat than the others, even though they decreased the amount of calories they ate from solid food.

"We were surprised to see that mice actually ate less when exposed to fructose-sweetened beverages, and therefore didn't consume more overall calories," says Tschöp. "Nevertheless, they gained significantly more body fat within a few weeks."

More Weight, More Body Fat
All of the mice weighed about 39 grams at the start of the study. Those that drank the fructose-sweetened water gained an average of 8 grams during the course of the study compared with average weight gains of less than 5 grams among the others.

The fructose-drinking mice also gained more body fat. Body fat increased by nearly 11 percent in the fructose group of mice -- significantly more than the 5 percent increase in the water group. Body fat increased by 7 percent to 8 percent in the soft drink and diet soft drink groups.

Researchers say the results suggest that the body metabolizes fructose differently than other sweeteners or carbohydrates and in a way that favors fat storage.
Their findings appear in the current issue of Obesity Research.

A 2004 report showed that Americans eat 132 calories each day of high-fructose corn syrup and that the figure is closer to 300 calories for the top 20 percent of Americans.

WebMD spoke to study researcher George A. Bray when that study was released.

Bray said between 1970 and 1990, high-fructose corn syrup consumption increased by more than 1,000 percent, largely because the nation's soft drink manufacturers switched from sucrose to high-fructose corn syrup.

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« Reply #1 on: Aug 1^st, 2005, 12:15pm »

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Interesting thought... and considering the higher rates of overweight kids and teens these days as compared to years ago. I know we drink more soft drinks now than I ever did as a kid. Getting a soft drink when I was a kid was like a special treat, maybe one a week... and we never kept them at home. We got to have one if we stopped at a fast food place (which wasn't often). We lived out "in the country" and my grandmother would take us with her to the grocery store every Friday - the big treat for us, if she had some extra money that week? A soft drink and a comic book.. LOL.

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lol I never drink Soft Drinks.

I really don't like them that much lol. Cheesy

But yea I read something like this before, that soft drinks are linked to obesity in children.

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I eat fruit when I have those between meal cravings. I am will be switching to celery!!!

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It won't bother you in fruit.. it's the fact that it's highly concentrated that makes it so bad in soft drinks

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Well and fresh fruit has many other healthy things in it like potassium that you don't want to skip.

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« Reply #6 on: Aug 1^st, 2005, 3:34pm »

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.......BUT if you're trying to loose weight, apples, pineapple, bananas are high in sugar.
I say fruit can't hurt you even if it is high in sugar, it's better than candy!
So, I'm eating :grapes2:

grapes!

Put them in the freezer and they're even better! :grapes:

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Well, for me the potassium thing is an issue because during my pregnancy my fruit intake was very limited due to the gestational diabetes, and after awhile I started to suffer from a potassium deficiency and had major leg muscle cramps and seriously high blood pressure as a result. Once we got that figured out I was able to bring my blood pressure back down. All of this happened right around the time the whole Shaivo thing exploded and it was a potassium imbalance that was blamed for her condition, so it hit even more home to me as a result. A potassium imbalance is a bad bad thing...

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I use to drink 4-5 cans a coke a day. Whew... About 3 months ago I finally found a diet drink that I could handle, so now I drink diet pepis (I need the caffeine). Usually only 1-2 a day. I drink alot of Crystal light and there is no fructose in that either so Im good to go Grin

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