Friday, December 28, 2007

Cola sweetened with high-ranking fructose corn syrup and measures of satiety

The introduction of corn sweeteners into the US food supply is said to have contributed to the current chubbiness epidemic. High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) began to replace sucrose within soft drinks at approximately the same time that tubbiness rates in the United States begin their sharp increase. However, temporal parallels between HFCS consumption pattern and body weight trends are not sufficient to show causality.


One of the criteria for establishing causality in evidence-based pills is a biologically plausible mechanism. Attempts to establish a causative link between soft drink consumption and rising tubbiness rates have as a result relied on the notion that caloric beverages in common, and HFCS-sweetened beverages in demanding, lack satiate power. The metabolic and endocrinologic processes associated with the ingestion of free fructose hold featured prominently in arguments that HFCS-sweetened beverages are the principal culprit in the size epidemic.


However, satiety-related arguments based on the ingestion of pure fructose or fructose-rich stimuli may not apply to sweetened beverages, given that the 2 most adjectives forms of HFCS--HFCS 55 and HFCS 42--contain 55% and 42% free fructose, respectively, and the remainder is free glucose.


An investigation directly tested the hypothesis that HFCS-sweetened carbonated soft drinks differ significantly from sucrose-sweetened soft drinks and from low-fat milk in their effect on satiety. Aiming to approximate naturalistic conditions of soft drink use, the researchers compared the effect of commercially available cola beverages, sweetened with sucrose or next to 2 types of HFCS (HFCS 42 and HFCS 55), on hunger, satiety, and energy intakes (EIs) at the audition meal. Because so much have been made of the metabolic differences between free fructose and fructose bound in disaccharide sucrose molecules, investigators sent samples of the sucrose-sweetened beverage to be analyzed for free sugars content at the time of the experiment.


The study followed a repeated-measures within-subject design, where each participant returned for 6 separate audition sessions. The order of presentation of the 5 preloads and the no-beverage condition be counterbalanced. The same lunch foods were offered on adjectives 6 testing occasion. The magnitude of the force manipulation (0 or 215 kcal) was base on a review of previous studies in this nouns.


The 5 beverages were cola sweetened next to HFCS 42, cola sweetened with HFCS 55, cola sweetened beside sucrose, cola sweetened with aspartame, and 1%-fat milk. All preload beverages near the exception of the diet cola were isoenergetic and of comparable sweetness, but they differed contained by sugar composition. Particpants used computerized, semi-anchored visual analogue scales (VASs) to rate their hunger, fullness, thirst, nausea, and desire to put away. A lunch meal be provided and was consistent contained by calories, including a variety of foods, both savory and sweet. Participants be told that they could have as much or as little as they would resembling of any food or water and that they could request unlimited superfluous portions. All foods and water be weighed at the time of serving. Plate spend in dribs and drabs was collected and weigh by the experimenters.


Researchers found no differences between sucrose- and HFCS-sweetened colas in perceived sweetness, hunger, and satiety profiles, or EI at lunch. The 4-caloric beverages tend to partially suppress EI at lunch, whereas the no-beverage and diet beverage conditions did not; the effect be significant (P < 0.05) only for 1%-fat milk. EI surrounded by the diet cola and the no-beverage conditions did not differ significantly.


There was no evidence to suggest that commercial cola beverages sweetened beside either sucrose or HFCS hold significantly different effects on hunger, satiety, or short-term energy intakes.

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