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Originally Posted by squeeeb
according to the american journal of clinical nutrition, high fructose corn syrup reduces circulating insulin and leptin and increases triglycerides.
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You're misquoting the article.
What's stated is that fructose decreases leptin and insulin levels. Fructose is a naturally occurring sugar and is one of the component molecules of sucrose. The article makes a distinction between free and bound fructose that is, so far as I'm able to tell, largely semantic. It further states that fructose consumption has increased by approximately thirty percent since 1970. High fructose corn syrup is mentioned as the main vector of the fructose increase.
The article then goes on to state that the worst offender is soft drinks.
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Originally Posted by Bray et al
We also explored the distribution of HFCS consumption by
examining quintiles of caloric sweetener intake among Americans
aged >= 2 y (Table 3). Most of the increase in caloric
sweetener intake from the middle quintile to the upper quintile
came from increases in the intake of calorically sweetened beverages,
particularly soft drinks.
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And that high fructose corn syrup in a solid form isn't a big deal :
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Originally Posted by Bray et al
...we suspect that if the HFCS was entirely in the solid form, it
would not pose the same problem (30).
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So, in conclusion, soda is bad for you.
Any questions?