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High Fructose Corn Syrup Part 4 Pathology

Posted on November 7, 2011 8:26 AM by Dr. Jo in Sweeteners | 0 Comments

By now we know that:

  • The production and consumption of high fructose corn syrup has sky rocketed because it’s a cheap sweetener
  • That unlike sucrose, it’s metabolized totally in the liver where it turns to fat
  • That it does not turn off your appetite, so you keep eating and get fat

High Fructose Corn Syrup can damage the liver:

Not only does it turn to fat, but it turns to fat much more rapidly than any other sugar. On top of that much more of it gets stored as fat. If you eat 90 calories of fructose, 30 calories get … Read the rest