TITLE:
High Fructose Corn Syrup and Sucrose Sweetened Milk Improve Dietary Quality during Weight Loss by Displacing Energy Dense, Nutrient Poor Foods
AUTHORS:
Stephanie Sinnett, Joshua Lowndes, Von Nguyen, Nan Lv, James Rippe
KEYWORDS:
HFCS, Sucrose, Dietary Quality, Milk
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.5 No.11,
June
17,
2014
ABSTRACT: We examined dietary quality and weight loss
among adults who drank flavored milk sweetened with either high fructose corn
syrup (HFCS) or sucrose at average population consumption levels of fructose.
This was a blinded, prospective randomized controlled trial evaluating the
effects of 10% or 20% of calories from either HFCS or sucrose sweetened 1% fat,
flavored milk as part of a hypocaloric diet. Participants (n = 98) followed
this diet and completed three day food records at the beginning and end of the
intervention. Results were pooled and compared with 31 non-milk drinking controls.
Equivalent and significant weight loss occurred in all intervention groups
whose data were pooled. Weight loss was different between the groups (weight
loss and sweetened milk: pre: 192 ± 28 versus post: 183 ± 28 pounds; control:
pre: 190 ± 22 versus post: 187 ± 22 pounds, interaction p