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title: The Definitive Word on Fructose
date: 2013-01-10T22:16:35Z
modified: 2013-01-10T22:16:35Z
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categories:
  - Living Naturally
  - Nutrition in the News
tags:
  - appetite
  - aspartame
  - fructose
  - high fructose corn syrup
  - overeating
  - sweeteners
author: Elizabeth
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Fructose makes you fat.

Don’t be fooled: fructose does not come from fruit. It is made in a laboratory out of corn, beets, and sugar cane and is added to packaged foods to make them sweeter.

![](http://thegoldenspiral.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/fructose.gif "fructose")

You might have been under the impression that fructose was a healthier sweetener than, say, Aspartame or high fructose corn syrup (made of corn syrup with added fructose), or even better than plain cane sugar. You were fooled.

Don’t blame yourself! Fructose shows up on labels of foods you might have thought were healthier alternatives, like flavored waters or energy bars, giving the impression that it’s a healthier alternative to sugar.

It’s not.

A recent study out of Yale using MRI technology found that [fructose inhibited the brain from switching off the appetite](http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_22327887/fructose-tied-obesity-study-shows-it-doesnt-cut?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com "fructose tied to obesity"), leading to overeating. In contrast glucose, as found in complex carbohydrates like fruits and vegetables, will turn off hunger when appropriate levels are reached.

Start reading the labels of your foods and you might be surprised everywhere high fructose corn syrup or just plain fructose shows up. And we wonder why we have an obesity epidemic here.