{"id":258,"date":"2008-09-08T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:09:22","slug":"the-empire-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/the-empire-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Strikes Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted here<\/a>, the Corn Refiners Association is riding high over the AMA’s decision to exonerate high fructose corn syrup as a cause of the obesity epidemic. So high, they’ve\u00a0gone from playing defense to offense:<\/p>\n

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[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0]<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KVsgXPt564Q]<\/p>\n

Nothing like making your point by paying actors to pretend they’re clueless on camera.<\/p>\n

What the heck\u00a0does “fine in moderation” even mean? Both of the\u00a0ads extolling the virtues of HFCS “in moderation” are encouraging consumption of “foods” that are energy-dense and nutrient poor. “Fine in moderation” only works to the extent that “room” is made for these foods in the diet by displacing more nutritious choices<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even worse, fructose may also be more lipogenic than glucose<\/a>.\u00a0 It may have the same calories\u00a0as table sugar or glucose, and is “made from corn” – but that’s really a red herring.\u00a0 The reality is that it’s metabolized somewhat differently than glucose, and can be more readily converted to body fat.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I’ll walk with the Corn Refiner’s Association this far…I don’t doubt\u00a0people can\u00a0include some\u00a0fructose their diets without getting fat.\u00a0 But, let’s get real here:\u00a0wouldn’t it be\u00a0a lot better to be consume it in the form of fruit, which contains fiber, vitamins, minerals and an array of health-promoting phytochemicals, than in the form of colored sugar water – as shown in the ads? The obesity epidemic is being fueled by such “foods.”<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bottom line\u00a0is that HFCS is used to sweeten a wide variety of “unfood” food products\u00a0– and the less of them we have in our diets, the better off we’ll be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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