Let’s Subtract “Added Sugar” from Our Diets
Wall Street Journal (Prescriptions Article) 2/20/03
A 12-ounce can of soda is mostly water and high fructose corn syrup, and contains the same calories as 10 teaspoons of sugar. When added up, these calories from soda, candy and packaged foods can equal 30% or more of a normal daily diet, and is one probable cause of the national obesity epidemic. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has named soda “liquid candy” as public-health enemy No. 1. Diet expert Dr. Michael Eades said that high fructose corn syrup is a “ticking bomb” in our diet because it is more readily converted into fat than other sugars. Sugar, he says, is far more sinister to our diet than the fat you get from meat, and nutrition science has been slow to see that high fructose corn syrup is especially sinister.
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