Princeton researchers: HFCS prompts considerably more weight

dietingsucks
dietingsucks Posts: 26
edited September 20 in Food and Nutrition
A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

Read entire article here: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

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  • emarcia28
    emarcia28 Posts: 140 Member
    OOOoo good to know. Thanks for the info!!
  • lt_mrcook
    lt_mrcook Posts: 389 Member
    Actually table sugar is just as bad...it's actually the ammount of fructose that is the problem.

    It's a little long (~90 min) but it is time WELL spent. Dr Lustig does a good job of explaining the biology of what happens, and why it is a poison!

    http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16717

    Good luck!
  • DeeDeeLHF
    DeeDeeLHF Posts: 2,301 Member
    I am totally forwarding this to my son. He believes that the corn industry is "evil" and refuses to eat anything with HFCS in it. :laugh:

    When he was younger we were a sugar free family. Now I am the only one...I am happy that he feels this way!:heart:
  • stroutman81
    stroutman81 Posts: 2,474 Member
    Good thing you're not a rat.
  • jlw02
    jlw02 Posts: 12 Member
    HFCS is in EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!! I try to avoid it as much as possible.
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