Nutrition

Study: High-fructose corn sweeteners partly responsible for obesity epidemic

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 12th, 2004

By coupling extensive U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food consumption data and their own analyses with previous research, nutrition experts have concluded that high-fructose sweeteners made from corn are partially responsible for the growing national obesity epidemic.

Introduction of the sweeteners, which are cheaper to produce and use in food manufacturing than cane and beet sugars, corresponded closely time-wise with the epidemic's start, the researchers said. Several other biological factors associated with high-fructose corn sweeteners appear to boost their negative effects on Americans' waistlines too.

The scientists are Dr. George A....

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