C
orn syrup's "research" about how corn syrup is okay in moderation and no different from sugar is wrong, and I happen to know this. Besides the very obvious fact that they're pushed by the corn lobby (the very
same corn lobby that advocates using ethanol fuel, even though it requires a ton of trucks hauling loads of corn to a refining center, then back as finished product, to be shipped around the country. It's only 2:1 efficiency versus normal fuel and you gotta plant fields of it, meanwhile wasting real fuel to haul it), the claim is blatantly false.
Princeton scientists with too much time of their hands looked up this very matter.
But I coulda told you that, just from watching a former boss who drank the stuff all the time because he was run down from his crappy shift, and trying to support his mom. Working class boss, basically. He'd lost his hair too. What is their bias? Well, they're pretty far removed from the corn industry so I don't think they're trying to sabotage it so they can push their own product (but the stevia people have conducted research on Splenda and corn syrup and come to the same results), so I'd have to say, just to research and get grants. The moderation part is false too, since most products on the shelves now have it, and if they don't claim it, sometimes it's there anyway under "natural flavors."
What about the last claim, that it's same as sugar and your body doesn't know the difference?
1 cup of sugar.
1 cup of corn syrup.
1 cup of honey.
Honey is nearly the same as sugar, and your body can't tell the difference (actually, from what I've heard it't a little better). Sugar is, well pure sugar. Corn syrup despite being made into a sugary sweet substance, is actually a starch. If these guys have a bias I dunno what it is, they'll tell you the nutrition facts of anything from an avocado to Wendy's Honey Mustard. In case you forgot biology class,
starches hang around the body longer (this is for normal stuff like whole wheat bread or rice, imagine what it does to a starch that acts like a sugar).