Maggie's Farm

The high fructose corn syrup controversy is a hoax. Usually there will be nothing to the story but blatant bias; no facts no clear statements. But when they try to dress up the story in science the hoax becomes obvious. If you look in the story the author cited researchers who claim that fructose "just goes to the liver" as though every molecule of fructose you ever ate is still sitting there in your liver. What they don't tell you is that one of your liver's jobs is to convert fructose to glucose. This is done in the liver where an enzyme makes the conversion. The other common sugar, glucose, doesn't require this second step to be useful. The second misstatement is that because the fructose is "stored" in the liver it causes fatty liver. But what is not said is another job your liver performs is to store glucose (or glycogen) and your liver stores the glycogen that is created from glucose and from fructose (once the liver converts it to glucose) This process happens regardless of the source of your "sugar". If you eat rice, potatoes, bread or any carbohydrate it is converted to glucose in your intestines and into glycogen in your liver and stored to be used as needed. So to simply claim that fructose remains in your liver is just as dishonest as the director of IRS claiming he knows nothing and saw nothing.
Another blatant example of the hoax is where the researcher discusses negative effects from eating HFCS but then describes a study where the subject eats 100% fructose and not the 50:50 ratio of fructose and glucose that is the norm. Even then the negative effects of fructose are nothing more then the normal processing of fructose in the liver. Since the process is NOT the same as the process of glucose it is deemed abnormal and thus negative. But the delemma for the anti-fructose crowd becomes obvious when you then ask about fruit. Is it dangerous to eat fruit which contains more fructose then glucose? Does it cause the same negative consequences that HFCS does? Is fruit good for you or not? To date not a single fructose bigot has choosen to address the fruit issue and presumably they themselves still eat fruit while simultaneously avoiding HFCS.

The HFCS hoax continues and the only value it seems to offer is to identify those who practice and believe in pseudo-science.