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Originally Posted by Aspengc8
prolonged over-consumption of calories = weight gain. Too much weight gain = obesity. It doesn't matter if you over eat sugar, steak or apples.. if you eat more than you burn, you get fat.
HFCS issue is the amount of insulin needed to clear it from the blood. You can eat in a caloric deficit all day, and drink tons of soda. You won't end up fat, but will be diagnosed with diabetes. people sippin on pop all day or eating small sugary snacks will lead to insulin issues.
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Oh, okay. Thanks. They haven't taught us the very basics of obesity in medical school. Thank you so much.
The second paragraph makes zero sense. You seem to forget that all food that we take in and utilized must be converted to glucose and is stored in cells by insulin. It's not just being bombarded with sugar, but an assault of our system with all foods because the final common pathway is the same. If you eat an unhealthy diet full of carbohydrates and fat, you will increase your blood glucose and down-regulate receptors that mediate the release of insulin. Once those receptors are fully desensitized, you will be clinically diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The problem with pop is you can get to the end much easier due to its caloric density from sugar.
And, as Dick Pull (
) mentioned, HFCS does impede normal metabolism, according to a study he cited that compared a HFCS drink and a Sugar drink with the same caloric amount. I don't know how it translates to a quantitative risk factor for diabetes and obesity, but suffice it to say that it likely doesn't help.