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High Fructose Corn Syrup Case Study

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High Fructose Corn Syrup is in everything people eat or drink these days. But if someone could try to not have high fructose corny syrup for a couple of days, how would that person feel? Would that person health be better, would they feel better, or would they feel worse. Well a group did a study on ourselves, the study was how would someone would feel if they did not have any high fructose corn syrup for 10 days. According to Dan K. Webb (an attorney for the corn refiners association) “this is a phony lawsuit, it was ginned up by them, the sugar industry, because they want to get a leg up in the marketplace” (“Sugar industry,” 2015). People does not really care about anyone’s health all they care about is money, money and more money is all they want. Meanwhile John Bode (president of the Corn Refiners Association) says “we are very happy our in court has come. We believe the sugar plaintiffs will not be able to prove their case. We expect to show that the sugar association has purposely misled the public to create false health concerns and fears about high fructose corn syrup-all for the purpose of increase sugar’s market share” …show more content…

No matter what these little thing called High Fructose Corn Syrup is in everything, we can’t go out with out having something with it in it. No one really looks at the labels to see what ingredients they are consuming have. However studies show that “give young healthy adults 0,10,17.5, or 25 percents of their daily calories requirements in a drink sweetened with high fructose corn syrup” (Liebman, 2015). According to Stanhope as he said “the liver turns fructose into triglycerides and sends some of it, along with cholesterol, into the blood” (Liebman, 2015). If high fructose corn syrup is that bad for our bodies then why do companions still put it in their products, why not take it out so we can have a healthier and better world then we do

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