HFCS is a man-made sweetener that’s cheaper and sweeter than sugar. Food manufacturers love it because it enhances their profits, so they add it into an unbelievable number of foods. Cereal. Ketchup. Soda. Pasta sauce. Cookies. Even some meal replacement bars, which are supposed to be good for you, list HFCS way up high on the ingredients list. If “High Fructose Corn Syrup” shows up anywhere on the ingredients, do not eat it!
We’re talking about a processed sweetener that didn’t even exist in he food chain until the 1970s. And HFCS is really, really, really bad for you. That’s because it’s packed with calories, but your body doesn’t recognize these calories. In fact, HFCS shuts off your body’s natural appetite control switches, so you can eat and eat and eat far beyond what your body would normally be able to handle. You probably know guys who can down a 2-liter bottle of Coke in a single sitting. Well, guess what? Before HFCS was invented, humans couldn’t do that. Our natural appetite control switches would kick in, detect the sugar we’re consuming, and say “¡No más!” But by shutting off the switches that control appetite, HFCS - a true junk food - is making America fat. In 1970, Americans ate about a half a pound of HFCS per person per year. By the late 1990s, every person was consuming about 62 pounds every year.
When you eat any carbohydrate - whether it contains glucose or starch - your body releases insulin to regulate your body weight. First, it tries to push the carbs into your muscle cells to be used as energy and facilitates carb storage in the liver for later use. Then it suppresses your appetite, telling your body that you’ve had enough. Finally, it stimulates production of another protein, leptin, which is manufactured in your fat cells. In essence, leptin helps regulate how much fat you store and helps increase your metabolism to keep your weight in check. Fructose screws up a system that was working perfectly fine without it. Fructose doesn’t stimulate insulin and therefore doesn’t increase the production of leptin - and that’s the most important argument against fructose and HFCS: Without insulin and leptin, your body has no shut-off mechanism. You can drink 4 liters of Coke or down a half a gallon of frozen yogurt, and your body thinks you haven’t eaten since the last time Bill Gates borrowed money from his dad.
Unlike glucose, your body doesn’t use fructose as an immediate source of energy; it metabolizes it into fat. While the small amount of fructose you get naturally through fruit and honey won’t make you fat, eating HFCS is sort of like setting up an IV that pumps fat directly to your gut. One of the worst offenders is soft drinks: Soda consumption has doubled from 25 to 50 gallons per person per year in the last few decades. So the amount of HFCS we’re getting is unprecedented - and many researchers think there’s a direct link between the huge amount of HFCS we’re consuming and the huge numbers we’re seeing on the scale.
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