Experts on High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity - Print

"After studying current research, the American Medical Association (AMA) today concluded that
high fructose syrup does not appear to contribute more to obesity than other caloric sweeteners..."

American Medical Association
AMA press release, June 17, 2008

"No persuasive evidence supports the claim that high fructose corn syrup is a unique contributor to obesity."

American Dietetic Association
Hot Topics paper on High Fructose Corn Syrup, December 200

"There's no substantial evidence to support the idea that high fructose corn syrup is somehow responsible for obesity." "If there was no high fructose corn syrup, I don't think we would see a change in anything important. I think there's this overreaction."

Walter Willett, Ph.D., Chairman of the Nutrition Department, Harvard School of Public Health
The New York Times, July 2, 2006

"A number of recent studies...have convinced me that HFCS does not affect weight gain."

Barry M. Popkin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil
Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2008

"I don't think it is likely that things would be very different if people consumed increased amounts of either sucrose or high fructose corn syrup." "Overconsumption of either sweetener, along with dietary fat and decreased physical activity, could contribute to weight gain."

Peter J. Havel, Ph.D., Associate Researcher, Department of Nutrition, University of California - Davis
The New York Times, July 2, 2006

"Like all nutritive sweeteners, it [high fructose corn syrup] contains calories. But critics who attack a single ingredient as the sole cause of obesity are wrong and counterproductive. A quixotic search for an easy answer means true solutions to the obesity problem are not being found."

John S. White, Ph.D., Caloric Sweetener Expert and President, White Technical Research
The New York Times, July 9, 2006

"The culprit in obesity is not the high fructose corn syrup...but it's the overconsumption of calories contributing to the weight gain."

Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., C.N.S., Director, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center
The TODAY Show, October 9, 2007