High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats 542
krou writes "In an experiment conducted by a Princeton University team, 'Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.' Long-term consumption also 'led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.' Psychology professor Bart Hoebel commented that 'When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight.'"
Avoid eating HFCS fed rats (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Queue . . . (Score:3, Funny)
RE: Eating HFCS Rats (Obligatory Quote) (Score:5, Funny)
Catherine: Not recently, Clark. He read that squirrels were high in cholesterol.
Eating the rats would be healthier (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, I know you're snarking, but seriously, healthy rat meat would have a lot more nutritional value than the caloric equivalent of soda pop.
As for rats raised on high fructose corn syrup, they actually have nice marbled flesh. Fries up real good, and smells like cola on the grill.
Re:FOOLS! Drink the refreshing beverage . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Corn Lobby Response submitted... (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, I can see that commercial too.
Soft focus. Sunrise. Dew on the stalks. A ladybug rouses from slumber. Woman in her natural beauty walks barefoot through soft rows. A newborn baby is cradled in the arms of a woman who has, I promise you, never given birth.
The cutline/voiceover -- "Corn syrup. Made from nature. As natural as Hollywood breasts."
Re:Queue . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone know where I can get a QueueQuat?
Re:Don't forget correlation is not causation! (Score:4, Funny)
Well, the other way around would mean that the rats that were doomed to become fat, caused themselves to get HFCS.
And that would be religious logic instead of scientific.
(Scientific logic is saying that it must be true because Princeton said so.)
Re:Queue . . . (Score:1, Funny)
You know what Ars Technica means in Latin? Secret Evil Corn Lobby!
Re:Patriotism and Elections (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FOOLS! Drink the refreshing beverage . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In humans too... (Score:5, Funny)
One thing seems for certain, Laboratory Rats are a miserable lot. They seem to be susceptible to cancer and just about everything else you can imagine. Why not test something really hardy instead? Why not politicians?
Rats are much better human analogs then politicians.
Re:It's all about the fiber (Score:5, Funny)
Fruit juice != fruit.
Drinking a tall glass of orange juice is the equivalent of eating 6~8 oranges, but without the fibers.
Your liver treats the massive sugar dump much differently than eating the equivalent # of [fruit].
The FDA wants to toss fruit juices into the same category of "bad" drinks as sugar laden sodas.
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