William Atkins
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 02:56
Science -
Health
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According to a U.S. study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup in soda pop may help to add to the obesity problem found in the United States.
The article “
Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup in beverages may play a role in the epidemic of obesity” is authored by George A Bray, from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Samara Joy Nielsen and Barry M Popkin, both from the Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The U.S. researchers wanted to find out if high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has a relationship with the rising epidemic of obesity in the United States.
They analyzed the patterns of food consumption from data provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture between 1967 and 2000.
The Louisiana and North Carolina researchers found that the consumption of HFCS increased over 1,000% from 1970 to 1990.
They state in the abstract to their paper that this drastic increase in the use of HFCS over this three decade period far exceeds the
“… changes in intake of any other food or food group.”In fact, HFCS is used over 40% of the time when compared to all other caloric sweeteners added to soft drinks in the United States.
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