Friday, July 27, 2007

High Fructose Corn Syrup Doesn't Make People OBESE - So THEY SAY!!

So a study comes out that says that High Fructose Corn Syrup does not contribute to obesity. But here's a few "sneaky" things about this "study".

1. First off they didn't study the affects of HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) on any individuals. They just read through OTHER studies and literature reviews.

2. Secondly, WHO did this "study" - Maryland Center for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy (CFNAP). It's no wonder they "found nothing".

3. Guess who funded this "study" - Tate and Lyle - and you know who they are? Large corn refiner in North America - Tate started out as a SUGAR REFINER. Well OF COURSE they couldn't find anything wrong with the studies funders MAIN source of business.

How bogus can you get. You can read this ridiculousness here:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/531862/

7 comments:

Unknown said...

And HFCS isn't just a contributor in obesity. I developed colitis in 2001 and found out later through strict food elimination, then adding one thing at a time back, that HFCS causes me horrible colitis flares. As far as I'm concerned the stuff is poisin. And they stick it in everything. Even dill pickles! Yikes!

Mr F. said...

God help us all. Food processors are the devil.

Danyele said...

I miss Dr. Atkins - we need a new advocate against the major food industry that can draw the same media attention.

Dagny said...

The study does not say that HFCS does not make people obese.

I read the link to the information about the study. What the researchers were looking at was whether HFCS had properties that made people fatter than other sweetener sources. Looks like since obesity rates have risen in the time period roughly coinciding with when HFCS has replaced other sweeteners, somebody (probably an association of sugar cane growers) decided to make the correlation that HFCS is some kind of special super weight inducer.

What the study concludes is that HFCS doesn't contribute to weight gain any more than anything else with the similar caloric/nutritional composition. Eating a lot of stuff with cane sugar in it will get you just as fat as anything with HFCS in it. You're no worse with one or the other.

The study makes a lot of sense and I'd say if there was anybody with an interest in it, that would be the sugar producers whose products have been replaced by the use of HFCS.
Dagny

Low Carb Band-It said...

Dagny - I couldn't disagree with you more. This is not the first time the Corn Refiners have tried to pull this same sort of crap. In this enlightening article, it points out the "error" that the Corn Refiners make:

http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/2005/08/challenge-to-fructose-study.html

Since HFCS is metabolised differently (in the liver) than sucrose, it is INDEED different. Which is talked about here:

http://www.westonaprice.org/motherlinda/cornsyrup.html

and here:

http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/highfructose.html

and here:

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/?p=232

Dagny said...

Your contention was that the study concluded fructose didn't make people fat. The study didn't make that claim. It seems a little pointless to me to try to claim one kind of fattening crap is somehow better or worse for you than some other kind of fattening crap.

Low Carb Band-It said...

Many times due to Fibro Fog, things I say or even write don't come out exactly how I meant. I only meant, that the faux study says that HFCS does not make you "any more fat" (the first paragraph of the study says this) than any other energy source, which is COMPLETELY wrong. First off they didn't do a study. They read some literature. Secondly it was funded by the corn people. Of course the study came out making HFCS look good. And the kicker is, they use a nutritionist (who ought to be ashamed of herself honestly) to "prove their point". Unknowing people believe that crap and keep eating their "treats" and think it's OK - especially since it's "done by a nutritionist". That IS the point of my post. HFCS is bad and they're trying to make it out to be OK. Why I've even read HFCS support, where they say it's OK, because they put it in the CRAP food, like Weight Watchers "treats"(and other diet companies) and then try to push it off on people claiming it to be healthy saying "See it's even in diet food and people lose weight eating it". Does that make it OK and healthy? Absolutely not. But a lot of these so-called studies are studies that leave things out or prove to confuse consumers so that these types of food come out looking OK. They aren't. It's really ridiculous. Eating any type of sugar only makes sugar cravings worse and studies also show that if you cut those foods out you do eventually stop craving them.

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