Were eating more of it than ever<\/strong>
HFCS is the main sweetener in drinks and is found in many foods; its consumption in the United States went up by more than 1,000 percent between 1970 and 1990. Meanwhile, kids are routinely being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes—once seen only in adults.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nNO: Too much sugar is just as bad.<\/strong>
Marion Nestle, PhD, MPHPaulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Biochemically, its almost the same as table sugar<\/strong>
The American Medical Association has concluded that HFCS isnt any worse for you than other caloric sweeteners. The 55:45 ratio of fructose to glucose in HFCS is almost the same as the ratio in table sugar and honey—50:50. HFCS has 4 calories per gram, just like table sugar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n- Blame calories for weight gain<\/strong>
All sugars have calories. And all sugars may be metabolized by the body as fat instead of energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n- Cut back on sweets, period<\/strong>
People who eat lots of sugary foods and drinks of any kind tend to be heavier. The average American consumes about 60 pounds each of sugar and HFCS a year. That leaves plenty of room for us to cut down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe Takeaway:<\/strong>
For the sake of your health, limit all added sweeteners, including sugar and HFCS. Try not to get more than 40 grams (about 10 teaspoons) of added sugars daily. Got a sweet tooth? Opt for fruit, a natural sugar source high in key nutrients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James WorrellFrom Health magazineYES: It has not-so-sweet health effects. Andrew Weil, MDDirector, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center It may promote obesityAnimals that ate a high-fructose diet for six months ate more and gained more weight than those that werent exposed to high fructose levels. Research shows it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}