High Fructose Corn Syrup

The science is clear: Fructose consumption is associated with insulin resistance, increased calorie intake, impaired metabolism, weight gain, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, reports The Examiner.com.

In a labratory in Japan, back in 1971, scientists created a highly processed, chemically altered sweetener from corn. This product is what is used to sweeten most of the processed and prepackaged foods in American grocery stores, high fructose corn syrup, (HFCS for the rest of this article). More and more foods are touting that they are not being made with HFCS, as it has gotten increasingly bad press.

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