Obesity Myths

Ever since obesity has become an epidemic going around the United States, along came the presumptions about how obesity came along and how it is why you’re obese. Of course these presumptions are just myths that people believe about obesity. Obesity is not preventable with the diet you consume because obesity is caused more by the life style you live. Obesity does have partial blame on the food you consume but it’s not entirely its fault. Obesity is caused more by what is done before you consume the food. This is just one of the myths about obesity and there is many more. Another is that high fructose corn syrup is a big cause on why you become obese. This is a myth because it actually doesn’t have a unique way to contribute to obesity. Like the website says, “A calorie is a calorie and a sweetener is sweetener.” It is not substantially higher in fructose than any other sugar. Each sugar contains the same amount of calories. Still, the myth that table sugar is “healthy” and high fructose corn syrup is “unhealthy” has grown from a poorly researched scientific hypothesis into a full-blown urban myth. Table sugar is 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose. High fructose corn syrup is either 42 percent or 55 percent fructose, with the remainder being glucose. This is just one of the myths about obesity and what obesity is caused by. There are many more that embellish the obesity causes. You might find some that might surprise you.

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