In the media high fructose corn syrup has often been blamed for America’s obesity epidemic.\u00a0 High fructose corn syrup was quickly introduced to soft drinks and many processed foods in the U.S. from 1975-1985. \u00a0It is not naturally occurring in nature and is made when changing the sugar in corn into a type of sugar called fructose.\u00a0 Fructose is the sweetest type of sugar and less can be used to sweeten products, thus making it an inexpensive food or beverage sweetener.\u00a0 High fructose corn syrup also acts as a preservative giving foods and beverages a long shelf life.<\/p>\n
Statements such as the following have been made in the media about high fructose corn syrup:\u00a0 “High fructose corn syrup increases hunger, converts easily into fat in our bodies, and is digested differently than other sugars.”\u00a0 Simply put, these statements are false.\u00a0 Many research studies have disproven these statements and the American Dietetics Association http:\/\/www.eatright.org<\/a> released a statement in December 2008 putting these claims to rest.<\/p>\n The bottom line from the American Dietetic Association is that high fructose corn syrup is nutritionally equal to naturally occurring sugars, such as sucrose (also known as table sugar).\u00a0 All sugars, including high fructose corn syrup contain the same number of calories (4 calories per gram) and our bodies digests all sugars the same. \u00a0High fructose corn syrup when consumed sparingly is not to be blamed for Americans obesity epidemic.\u00a0 Weight gain is a result of consuming more calories (from food and beverages) than our body needs.\u00a0 All foods fit into a healthy diet, even a soda or a donut, but remember these foods are high in calories and low in nutritional value so choose to eat them only once in a while.\u00a0 Vary your diet with foods from each of the five food groups daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the media high fructose corn syrup has often been blamed for America’s obesity epidemic.\u00a0 High fructose corn syrup was quickly introduced to soft drinks and many processed foods in the U.S. from 1975-1985. \u00a0It is not naturally occurring in nature and is made when changing the sugar in corn into a type of sugar called fructose.\u00a0 Fructose is the Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[115,52,116,117,118],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition-2","tag-high-fructose-corn-syrup","tag-obesity","tag-obesity-epidemic","tag-sugar","tag-weight-gain","cat-780-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/corn1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}