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High Fuctose Corn Syrup Case Study

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High Fructose Corn Syrup
When Jacques Peretti decides to go to a hospital to be under an MRI machine for about 30 minutes to find out all of the hidden fat in his thin body that no one could see. The doctor told him that inside his body he have about 4-5 letters of extra fat. This fat is surrounding his organs which could affect them. It is not bad but when the number of letters goes higher a lot of dreadful things could happen like damaging the kidneys. Even if the human body looked thin from the outside there is a chance that it has fat from the inside. Doing this would help a lot of people get educated about what they eat and how it would affect their body. High Fructose Corn Syrup could be really harmful but every company started using it because it sweeter and cheaper than sugar which mean they don't have to use the same amount as sugar they could use less and still get the same result as sugar. To be more healthy we should avoid HFCS as much as we could. …show more content…

In addition, to make HFCS they need to add enzymes to change the glucose into another sweetener called Fructose, According to Dr.Axe “most high fructose corn syrups contain either 42 percent or 55 percent fructose.” This proves that the HFCS have more fructose than regular sugar which makes the difference between them. In fact, High fructose corn syrup is sweeter than sugar. According to Dr. Hyman when he wrote about the problems with HFCS , the Corn Refiner's sent him a warning about the errors. Because his information was correct, they were trying to take him to court and sue him for information they did not like.His information could make them lose money. Because the corn lobbyists did not succeed in court they try to persuade doctors to not alert their patients about the negative effects of

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