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Dr. Eric Berg.

Let's talk about the downfall of high-fortose corn syrup.

It's been a real popular sweetener for the last 30 years.

In fact, in 1980, an average American was consuming about 20 pounds of it per year.

And then it spiked in your 2000 to 61 pounds.

And then in 2015, went down to 39.

And if I'm not mistaken, in the last couple of years, it's even down-training from that point.

In fact, quite a few companies are making the shift from high-fortose corn syrup to different forms of sugar, unfortunately.

PepsiCo, Snapple, Pizza Hut, Craft Foods.

And there's actually a really long list of companies that are moving away from high-fortose corn syrup.

The problem with high-fortose corn syrup is that we have 53% glucose, then we have 42% fructose.

And the rest of it is different types of sugars.

And the problem is this fructose right here does some serious damage to your liver.

All of your cells have receptors for glucose, but not fructose.

Only the liver has these receptors to break down fructose.

If you're consuming a lot of fructose, what's going to happen is you're going to overload the liver

and you're going to create all sorts of problems with insulin resistance, a fatty liver, eventual cirrhosis.

So fructose is very unhealthy for the liver.

Cyronic is sucrose, table sugar is 50, 50 roughly glucose and fructose.

So table sugar, from my viewpoint, is also very, very unhealthy because it has a lot of fructose.

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