That Syrupy Thing

If you look, you might be surprised how many of the foods you eat use high-fructose corn syrup. It’s in soft-drinks and candies, sure, but it’s also in ketchup, cereal, crackers, breads, bacon, protein bars, and beer.

Yeah, it’s everywhere. Which makes it easy to take in way too much of it. Way, way too much of it.

Eating too much of any food is bad for health, can make you immediately sick, and can even poison you. But I would suggest that in the case of high-fructose corn syrup, ANY is way too much.

A debate has started about the use and astounding prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup. Not a debate debate, of course. It’s more of an argument—people saying that they don’t want to eat high-fructose corn syrup, and the industry declaring that yes, they do.

People are reacting to the fact that studies are starting to come out showing that high-fructose corn syrup can lead to weight gain, high triglyceride levels, copper deficiency, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. Seeing that, people naturally start to gravitate away from high-fructose corn syrup. However, the industry is counter-arguing that this reaction is only based on fear, and that high-fructose corn syrup is just another sugar, and is not worse for the body than sugar.

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