It seems to be human nature to want to find ONE SOLUTION to complex problems. Obesity is no different. Every few years something new is blamed as THE CAUSE OF OBESITY. At least one of those is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Like others before, it has been blamed as the cause of obesity, diabetes/The Metabolic Syndrome, health problems and the breakdown of the nuclear family.
A lot of this idea started with research by Bray who CORRELATED an increase in the intake of high fructose corn syrup with increasing rates of obesity. Much of this started with a 2004 paper by Bray where he correlated changes in HFCS intake with changes in obesity, suggesting that it was the increase in HFCS intake that was driving obesity. This was taken, as usual, far out of context into the popular realm of magazines, newspapers and tv soundbites.
Suddenly high fructose corn syrup was THE enemy.… Keep Reading