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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
I have a real hard time believeing those numbers about HFCS.
Anything you have to back that up. I'm not calling you out or anything, it just sort of seems like that's kind of one of those internet things that gets repeated, but no one really knows where it came from.
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I watched a lecture documentary from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute if i recall correctly, which is where I got those numbers.
We can't actually digest fructose properly and the only way we can break it down is through the liver (similar to alcohol pretty much in every way except getting the buzz, but that's because alcohol gets metabolized in the brain, where fructose gets metabolized in the liver. If fructose got metabolized in the brain like alcohol does, we would get drunk off it as well.)
Because the liver isn't exactly great at digesting things (it's not supposed to but does get forced in that roll when we eat things that are not good for us) we are only able to convert 30% of the substance into actual energy and the rest gets converted into fat.
It is actually pretty terrible for you.