This is sort of a departure from the typical paper I talk on this website as it deals with the history of beverages and how our body treats them physiologically. While interesting in its own right (to me anyhow), it also provides some practical application that I’ll examine at the end of the article.
I think it’s especially relevant after the research review I posted on high fructose corn syrup for the simple fact that people are confounding what the real issue actually is in terms of causal effects on obesity. As you’ll see as you read this, the issue isn’t with HFCS per se, but rather with the foods in which they are most commonly consumed: sweetened soft drinks. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Specifically I will be looking at the following paper”
Wolf A, Bray GA, Popkin BM. A short history of beverages and how our body
treats them.… Keep Reading