Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel and you're listening to the

nutrition diva quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous.

Today we're going to talk about high fructose corn syrup and whether it really is to blame

for the decline of Western civilization and what you need to know about this widely used ingredient.

Several of you have written or phoned to ask me about high phructural widely used in virtually every

in virtually every processed and packaged food you buy.

There's been a whole lot of negative press about high fructose corn syrup and it's something I've written about a lot on my nutrition blog at nutrition data.com

A lot of people are convinced that high fructose corn syrup is to blame for our exploding rates of obesity and diabetes.

The argument goes something like this.

Food and beverage manufacturers use to make their products with the same kind of sugar

that you use in your kitchen, cane sugar, also known as table sugar or

sucrose. But in the 1980s, manufacturers started to use high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar

because it was a lot cheaper.

Looking back, we can see that the American obesity problem really

started to get out of control right around the same time that food

manufacturers started using high fructose corn syrup and there's

your smoking gun but there's more studies also show that the liver converts fructose to

fat much more readily than other forms of sugar.

Well, that proves it.

We all got fat because the food manufacturers

poisoned us with an unnatural form of extra fattening sugar.

So at this point, people are not only

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