Your Heart Hates High Fructose Corn Syrup

Maylin Rodriguez-Paez RN

As you probably know, most sodas are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

In recent years HFCS has come under scrutiny for its connection to obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other health problems. Not much information is known about the speed in which these changes occur.

A new study shows that just two weeks of ingesting drinks sweetened with HFCS elevated markers related to heart disease. The results were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

High Fructose Corn Syrup Increases Lipid Levels

For the current study, investigators recruited 85 participants between the ages of …read more