It’s Not Your Fault: Certain Foods Make You Fat
The Calories in Soda Come From High Fructose Corn Syrup
You have been around people who eat a saucer full of food and say: “I am so full, I am uncomfortable.” I never understood that. I was always hungry, and I weighed 307 pounds. Now we have learned that fructose makes us resistant to the hormone that tells us we are full. (Leptin) If you are overweight, you are resistant to the hormone and it builds up in your system. People who are overweight have high leptin levels and they are always hungry.
This is one of the key factors in the obesity epidemic. High fructose corn syrup is not a natural food. This is how the FDA describes it. “High fructose corn syrup is derived from corn starch. Starch itself is a chain of glucose (a simple sugar) molecules joined together. When corn starch is broken down into individual glucose molecules, the end product is corn syrup, which is essentially 100% glucose.
To make high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), enzymes are added to corn syrup in order to convert some of the glucose to another simple sugar called fructose, also called “fruit sugar” because it occurs naturally in fruits and berries. HFCS is ‘high’ in fructose compared to the pure glucose that is in corn syrup. Different formulations of HFCS contain different amounts of fructose. HFCS 42 is 42% fructose is mainly used in processed foods, cereals, baked goods, and some beverages. HFCS 55 is 55% fructose and used primarily in soft drinks.
High fructose intake creates leptin resistance and although leptin levels are elevated, they no longer provide the signal that we have had enough to eat, and we continue to be hungry. That increased hunger makes us overeat and we later gain weight on a high-fat diet. The linked article said it this way. “Fructose-induced leptin resistance exacerbates weight gain in response to subsequent high-fat feeding,”
“In the United States, HFCS was widely used in food manufacturing from the 1970s through the early 21st century, primarily as a replacement for sucrose (table sugar) because its sweetness was similar to sucrose, it improved manufacturing quality, was easier to use, and was cheaper. Domestic production of HFCS increased from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to a peak of 9.5 million tons in 1999. Although HFCS use is about the same as sucrose use in the United States, more than 90% of sweeteners used in global manufacturing is sucrose.” Sucrose is table sugar. Sucrose is a molecule made up of glucose and fructose. When you put sugar in your coffee and drink it, it is quickly broken down into glucose and fructose. So the effect on metabolism and hunger is about the same as high fructose corn syrup.
The history of HFCS use tracks pretty well with the increase in obesity in the United States. It is another likely reason that we are are real outlier compared to other developed countries.
Safe to say the Coke will not make this part of their advertising!! Isn't OMT the pathway for eliminating fructose? Should not all the wellness companies be using that so they prove real results?!
It’s nice to be able to report that the ConcentricDNA framework includes all those elements - finally!!