Stay away from High Fructose Corn Syrup
if you want to get rid of your belly fat!!!!

Fears that fructose and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are fuelling the obesity epidemic and triggering insulin resistance and diabetes have been circulating for years (New Scientist, 1 September 2001, p 26), but there have been few direct investigations in humans.

So Peter Havel at the University of California, Davis, persuaded 33 overweight and obese adults to go on a diet that was 30 percent fat, 55 percent complex carbohydrates and 15 percent protein for two weeks. For a further 10 weeks, they switched to a diet in which 25 percent of their energy came from either fructose or glucose.

In those given fructose there was an increase in the amount of intra-abdominal fat, which wraps around internal organs, causes a pot belly and has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. This did not happen with the group who consumed glucose instead, even though both gained an average 1.5 kilograms in weight.

Those who consumed fructose also had raised levels of fatty triglycerides, which get deposited as intra-abdominal fat, and cholesterol. Their insulin sensitivity also fell by 20 per cent. Glucose appeared to have no effect on these measures. Havel presented the results at a meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Francisco last week.

Read your labels and do not consume anything with High Fructose Corn Syrup.!!!!!!!  

Fructose and High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)

 

Cordially,

Helen Pensanti M.D.