High Fructose Corn Syrup

I would do a post about how the pressure of sport and competition drive us toward working harder and are a fundamental part of the CrossFit program.  However, I’m bitter about not being able to go to the Games sectionals, so I’m going to pour some hate onto HFCS, instead.

Have you guys seen those despicable advertisements for high fructose corn syrup?  It’s not so much an advertisement as it is straight propaganda.  Seriously, it’s stuff like this which actually keeps me from watching television.  But I digress.

We have a pretty good idea that processed sugar, in general, is something to avoid.  And many of us have had our suspicions that HFCS, in particular, is a nasty type of sugar that you really don’t want anything to do with, despite corporate propaganda.  So, in response to the above-linked video, here is what they say about it.

The above link is to an article from Princeton University, describing a study in which rats gained significantly more weight from a diet of high fructose corn syrup than from a diet of sucrose (table sugar)– even when caloric intake was the same.  This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to us, since we are aware that hormonal response to food, and not caloric intake, is the primary factor in weight gain. Interesting stuff, to be sure.