The connection between Fructose and Obesity
People often worry about weight management, often spending huge sums of money on quick fire solutions when they actually must be changing their lifestyle and diet habits. There have been many reasons for the increase in obesity and the most important being the popularity of junk foods. However there is another important cause of an increase in incidence of obesity in adults and it is the popularity of High Fructose Corn Syrup HFSC.
What exactly is HFSC and how does it sent haywire all the weight management efforts?
Corn syrup contains glucose and sugar and is not much sweet. There are three types of sugar; one is glucose which is used by our body as the primary source of energy. The second is fructose which is also a form of sugar and sweeter and more soluble than sugar. A mixture of Glucose and Fructose is the Sucrose which we use as our tabletop sweetener. In the 1970’s a method was found to convert the Glucose into fructose with the help of enzymes. The method was perfected until today when it is possible to get 90 percent fructose solution. The solution is diluted with glucose and sucrose syrup to about 50 percent fructose concentration, which is the normal Corn Syrup used in the industry.
Corn syrup containing fructose is sweeter than sugar, can easily mix with other substances and is much more economical than sugar. It also has preservative properties. All these factors have led to a jump in the use of fructose as a sweetener in almost all readymade beverages and jams. In the 1970’s 80 percent of the sweeteners consumed in the US was Sucrose. By the year 2001 this figure came down to 42 percent while 57 percent sweeteners of today contain Fructose. Simultaneously there has been a steep increase in incidence of Obesity and Diabetes in the population of US. This fact was noticed by weight management and nutrition experts who found the correlation between Obesity and Fructose consumption too evident.
Glucose has numerous pathways through which it can be metabolized in the human body. However with fructose can be metabolized only in the liver and any excess fructose will be converted by the liver into triglycerides. The triglycerides are harmful for your circulatory systems. Another fact which has been proved is that fructose does not stimulate the production insulin, leptin and ghrelin which tells the body when and how much to eat. Therefore the person who is on a heavy fructose diet will continue eating since his brain is unable to comprehend when to stop since no insulin or leptin has been released. Hence if you really want to make those weight management schedules successful, it will be imperative to cut down on all those soft drinks and jams all loaded with the High Fructose Corn Syrup HFSC.
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