What do they say?
That’s the comeback the corn industry has to the bad reputation High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) has (You know what they say). It’s always really bugged me the way the commercial makes the detractor some uneducated person and then the smart person sets him straight.
How about this Princeton study then?
When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they’re becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don’t see this; they don’t all gain extra weight.
I myself am proof of this. I wasn’t an overweight kid in India, but when I came to America I drank a lot of soda as a kid. It was like water to me and as a result, I started becoming overweight over the years. I wasn’t eating all that terribly and no more than friends of mine, but I was gaining weight easily. About 7-8 months ago, I completely cut out soda and also kept an eye out for anything else that had HFCS in it. Well… there are A LOT of things that have HFCS in them. I read labels and if I saw HFCS listed as an ingredient, I moved on.
Today, I’m roughly 20 lbs lighter without really exercising at all. Granted I also changed other aspects of my diet, but cutting out HFCS made a big difference. I don’t miss soda at all. The last time I tried it, it just tasted overly sweet. That’s another thing; our sense of taste has been dulled over the years to require more and more sweetener (salt too!). Having cut overly sweet drinks, I can now taste more subtleties in foods.
I’ve slowly seen HFCS removed from products over the years, but until we get rid of corn subsidies, we’re not going to see a complete overturn of the food industry. We’ve got health on the mind this week and this one change would change the health of so many people for the better.
