Artificial sugar

           It’s already bad enough that more than half of the population on America are obese.  But what’s even worst is that almost more than half of the foods we buy in supermarkets have artificial sugar as one of the ingredients.  The most famous artificial sugar is high fructose corn syrup.  You probably seen on almost every single item in the grocery store that has fructose corn syrup as the leading ingredient.  The reason why we use so much high fructose corn syrup is because we have an abundance of corn here in the U.S.  We use corn for just about everything we could imagine.  No wonder why more than half of the population is obese!

            High fructose corn syrup is not healthy or good for you, it’s like sugar not like the natural sugars you get from fruits but artificial sugar.  High fructose corn syrup is chemically engineered to taste sweet and act as table sugar.  Too much can cause obesity and diabetes.  It adds to unwanted calories and your body will store the unwanted calories as fat, there’s no nutritional benefit from high fructose corn syrup.  Your body is not going to treat it any different than putting a tablespoon of pure sugar in your mouth. 

            What is really scary is that there’s an abundance of it, and we are ingested so much.  It’s crazy to not think of high fructose corn syrup as not one of the ingredients on foods that we eat every day.  Because high fructose corn syrup is cheap and corn is abundant, they are in everything we eat.  We just can’t miss it, it’s everywhere.  You can read online on how they are a major health concern and what it does to your body.  Studies have shown at Princeton, rats that are significant amounts of high fructose corn syrup are more obese than the ones fed with regular table sugar.  It makes since doesn’t it? Don’t get me wrong, sugar is bad but compared to high fructose corn syrup it’s not so bad.  If they cause problems for the lab rats that are tested, just imagine we are consuming more each day and how that impacts us.  I always read the back of labels and if high fructose corn syrup is listed as the first and top ingredients I simply just don’t buy it.  I don’t want to buy something if the damages outweigh the benefits.