Use of Corn Sugar Trigger Diabetes

Research has shown, the use of corn sugar (HFCS) as a sweetener processed foods and soft drinks affect the increase in the number of cases (prevalence) for type 2 diabetes. Research experts from the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford published journal Global Public Health stated, the high use of HFCS in one country can have implications for the increasing cases of type 2 diabetes.

In the United States and other countries, the use of corn sugar or high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener is common.
After conducting research in 42 countries, the researchers concluded that the prevalence of diabetes cases on average 20 percent higher in states that use HFCS as a sweetener, compared to countries that do not use HFCS.

Although it has not been able to demonstrate causal relationships are unclear, but the tendency of HFCS plays a role in increasing the risk of diabetes compared with other types of sugar.

"HFCS is one type of sugar that can cause health problems on a global scale," said one researcher Michael I. Goran, MD, director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center and co-director of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity Research at the Keck School of Medicine at USC in a release. "The results of this study adds to the scientific references that indicate consumption of HFCS may be bad for health, and more dangerous than natural sugar."

HFCS is typically used as a sweetener in beverages and snacks, and other processed foods. Unlike glucose from natural sugar, the sweetness comes from fructose than HFCS. Its high content of fructose makes the body very easily turn into fat. That is because there are differences in the body metabolizes glucose and fructose. Therefore, consumption of fructose can be at risk obesity.

Type 2 diabetes, often associated with obesity, and is one of the diseases that cause of death worldwide. According to his research, Goran stated nearly 8 percent of people in the world could be suffering from diabetes by 2030 if consumption of HFCS is forwarded. Therefore, to prevent type 2 diabetes, you should immediately reduce the consumption of all forms of sugar and artificial sweeteners contained in beverages or snacks.

Sources: everydayhealth

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