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High-Fructose Corn Syrup:  What is it and how it affects kidneys

I don’t need to inform my readers that high-fructose corn syrup is bad for them.  What I want to tell you is why it is bad.

High-fructose corn syrup is an industrial food product and far from “natural” or a naturally occurring substance. It is extracted from corn stalks through a process so secret that Archer Daniels Midland and Carghill would reportedly not allow the the process to be disclosed. The sugars are extracted through a chemical enzymatic process resulting in a chemically and biologically novel compound called HFCS. 

The average American increased their consumption of HFCS (mostly from sugar sweetened drinks and processed food) from zero to more than 60 pounds per person per year. During that time period, obesity rates have more than tripled and diabetes incidence has increased more than seven-fold. Not perhaps the only cause, but a fact that cannot be ignored.

Most of this intake of HFCS came from drinking soda. Why all the recent attention about drinking soda? Because drinking more than a single can of soda sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup every day may increase your odds of chronic kidney disease, a recent study contends.

Published in the Journal of  the International Society of Nephrology, the study found that “compared to participants who drank less, consumption of over one soda per day was associated with increased odds of prevalent hyperuricemia (abnormally high uric acid level in blood) and chronic kidney disease.” While soda was the culprit in this study, the same could be said for any source of high-fructose corn syrup.

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