2. It messes with your appetite
Princeton University researchers found that diets high in high-fructose corn syrup lead to greater weight gain that those with regular sugar. That’s because HFCS messes with your appetite, says Newsmax nutrition expert Vera Tweed.
“When we eat, the hormone insulin is secreted to deliver fuel to cells in the form of blood glucose so that it can be used to produce energy,” Tweed writes. Another hormone, leptin, signals when we have eaten enough, thereby regulating appetite.
“High-fructose corn syrup, for reasons that are not yet fully understood, seems to bypass this mechanism. In effect, it stops our bodies from detecting that we have consumed enough food. Therefore, we continue to eat. And, it decreases our ability to efficiently burn calories.”
This inability to monitor appetite leads to overeating and obesity, which is a major risk factor for deadly heart disease, diabetes, and strokes.
