Yes, it's horrible for you!!
Nasty nasty stuff. And it's amazing HOW MANY foods it's in! Go check your cupboards read the labels on some foods.
I'm doing the Abs Diet (I'm enjoying a break from my IBS-C after giving birth to my son in July) and here's what the author had to say with regard to weight and HFCS. It's long, so beware:
"HFCS is a man-made sweetener that's cheaper and sweeter than sugar. Food manufacturers love it because it enhances their profits, so they add it into an unbelievable number of foods. Cereal. Ketchup. Soda. Pasta sauces. Cookies. Even meal replacement bars, which are supposed to be good for you, list HFCS way up high in the ingredients list.
We're talking about a processed sweetener that didn't even exist in the food chain until the 1970s. That's because it's packed with calories, but your body doesn't recognize these calories. In fact, HFCS shuts off your body's natural appetite control switches, so you can eat and eat and eat far beyond what your body would normally be able to handle. By shutting off the switches that control appetite, HFCS - a true junk food- is making America fat. In 1970, Americans eat about half a pound of HFCS per person per year. By the late 1990s, every person was consuming about 62 pounds every year! That's 228 additional calories per person per day.
The problem with HFCS is not the corn syrup; it's the fructose - a sugar that occurs naturally in fruit and honey. Corn syrup is primarily made of glucose, which can be burned as a source of immediate energy, stored in your liver or muscles for later use, or, as a last resort, turned to fat. But corn syrup isn't as sweet as other sugars, which is why HFCS because so popular. It's cheap and doubly sweet.
Unlike glucose, your body doesn't use fructose as an immediate source of energy; it metabolizes it into fat. While the small amount of fructose you get naturally through fruit and honey won't make you fat. Eating HFCS is sort of like setting up an IV that pumps fat directly to your gut. One of the worse offenders is soft drinks: Soda consumption has doubled from 25 to 50 gallons per person per year in the last few decades. So the amount of HFCS we're getting is unprecedented – and many researchers think there's a direct link between the huge amount of HFCS we're consuming and the huge numbers we're seeing on the scales. "
The ABS Diet, David Zinczenko, p. 128-130
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~jules
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