Fructose DOES make you gain body fat.

Seen the commercial with someone being mocked for pointing out that a product has High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and claiming that "it's no different than ordinary sugar"?

Well, it's NOT the same as other sweeteners, including "sugar", according to a powerful Princeton University study.

Rats who had access to HFCS gained "SIGNIFICANTLY" more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when the amount of calories they ate was the same?

And the long term use of HFCS also led to increased storage of body fat especially in the abdomen, and increasing in triglycerides floating in the blood.

In other words, no good can come from this product.

It appears that the composition of the HFCS seems to be the reason for the gain in body fat. The chemistry is just wrong for consumption. Time to let it go. There are so many other natural sweeteners that you and your clients / patients can experiment with.

The Princeton research was supported by the U.S. Public Health Service.