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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-cause-obesity/">Q&A: Does high fructose corn syrup cause obesity?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted August 17, 2007 at 10:00 AM by Jamal Walker</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">For the last 25 years, soft drinks have used high fructose corn syrup as their major form of sweetening.&nbsp; This coincides with a major increase in obesity in America.&nbsp; However, a study from the University of Washington shows that there is no evidence that commercial beverages sweetened with either sucrose or high fructose corn syrup have significantly different effects on hunger or how much you eat (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2007). In another study from Purdue University, subjects were given three different food groups in both liquid and solid forms (International Journal of Obesity, June 2007).&nbsp; No matter what they ate, the subjects ate far more calories on the days that they took in foods in liquid form.&nbsp; This shows that liquid forms of food are interpreted in the brain as less filling, and therefore people take…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-cause-obesity/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-cause-obesity/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-cause-obesity/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/qa-does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-cause-obesity/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/weight-control/">weight-control</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>