Many people have a sweet tooth, but a good rule of thumb with
food is that the sweeter it tastes, the less likely it is to be
good for you. In the 1970’s the food industry, especially the
U.S. industry, began using high fructose corn syrup as a
substitute for raw sugar as a sweetener. Fructose makes sweets
tastes sweeter and is easier and cheaper to produce with such an
overabundance of corn. However, researcher have now determined
that fructose is worse for you than sugar and lead to higher
obesity rates, according to a 2010 study conducted at Princeton
University. Let’s take a close look at what fructose is and how
it works and then discuss how it harms you and how you can avoid
it. Fructose is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) that the body
can use as energy and that sweetens the taste of food products.
Fructose is found in small doses in fruits and vegetables and
consuming the little amount that is found in nature is not a bad
thing at all; it is when fructose is consumed in high intensity
volumes that it o