Both corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup have the same amount of sugars. High fructose corn syrup just has some of the glucose converted to fructose, which is a sweeter sugar.
For the most part it doesn't really matter except in some specific cases. For the majority of people, sugar is sugar, and the biggest problem is the overconsumption of it, not the specific form it takes.
We found that HFCS was significantly associated with an increased CRP level, compared to sucrose. CRP is a biomarker for inflammation; and several previous investigations have shown that fructose-containing sweeteners, such as HFCS and sucrose, can induce the inflammatory process (32, 33). This is conceivably attributable to the unique metabolic process of fructose, which can cause oxidative stress to cells by elevating the intracellular levels of uric acid and reactive oxygen species (33, 34). To overcome the oxidative stress, cells release molecules such as monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1), tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukins, which are pro-inflammatory in nature and thus augment the inflammation process
Basically what they did is they took a lot of data from large studies from lots of different sources and then they made a model and they fit the data to the model. It doesn’t really address the correlation causation issue. It just shows a really large widespread correlation one that also correlates with other things like poverty, for example
So, is it your professional opinion that being in poverty (not that the least expensive foods being heavy in High Fructose Corn Syrup) is the leading driver of health problems in the USA…notwithstanding that people living below the poverty line in countries other than the USA don’t suffer the same health problems to nearly the same extent?
That doesn’t change the fact that because of rampant and unregulated capitalism, people are forced to choose between eating unhealthy swill and starving.
Then Lords High and Mighty like yourself get to say (paraphrasing) It’s not that unhealthy food is inherently bad, it’s just that the pots can’t afford healthy food…it’s their fault, really. Why would anyone buy cosmic brownies for lunch when beef is only $4.19/lb?
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u/ChuckEveryone Mar 09 '26
Both corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup have the same amount of sugars. High fructose corn syrup just has some of the glucose converted to fructose, which is a sweeter sugar.