QandAs: Food

Is High Fructose Corn Syrup dangerous?

Answer:
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is an "artificial" sweetener

made from a complex process with corn; a process of brewing, separating, breaking down, injecting enzymes, filtering, mixing and blending. Sounds safe enough, doesn't it?

High Fructose Corn Syrup is included in a wide variety of food products, from chewing gum and candy to bread, crackers, cookies, cereal, yogurt, salad dressing, soup, and many more.

HFCS is less expensive, lasts longer, and is more easily transported and handled than natural sugar; thus food producers prefer it for their manufacturing processes.

Wide spread use of HFCS began in the 1970's in the United States; and, coincidentally or not, American obesity began to climb around that time as well.

Some studies and research are now beginning to implicate HFCS as perhaps one of the single most important factors of obesity and related diseases and ailments.

While the jury is still out on the actual health effects of High Fructose Corn Syrup, much of the data and dialog about it are compelling enough that we should take serious note.

Some research claims that HFCS does not metabolize in the body like regular "natural" sugars; and that it might cause obesity-related glitches within the liver and other organs which normally deal with metabolizing, storing and using sugars in the body.

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