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Old 03-07-06 | 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
HFCS with very high fructose concentrations are being used in products labeled as "light" or "low-calorie" due to its high sweetness.

AmJournal Clinical Nutrition - Increased consumption of refined carbohydrates...
Bodybuilding.com - Types Of Sweeteners
Secretariat of the Pacific Community #66.doc

If you dig deeper, you'll find studies showing fructose converts to triglycerides more readily than glucose. Not to mention insulin-resistance and glucose-intolerance effects.

Nutrition&Metabolism - Fructose, insulin resistance, and metabolic dyslipidemia
AmJournal Clinical Nutrition - Fructose, weight gain, and the insulin resistance syndrome
Danno, those things are saying that additional fructose is being added as a sweetener (e.g. in addition to HFCS). And again I'm not arguing the effects of higher overall fructose intake.

But you seem to be trying to single out HFCS as a bad guy, when it is not any worse (or better) than other glucose/fructose sweeteners. In other words, you are not doing yourself any favors by choosing a drink sweetened with sugar/sucrose as compared to that same drink sweetened with HFCS, or vice-versa.
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