Pre-emptive CRA Strike on Study Alleging HFCS-Diabetes Link
November 26/Washington/PRNewswire -- A new study, to be released November 27 by researchers from USC and Oxford, uses a severely flawed statistical methodology and ignores well established medical facts to "suggest" a unique link between high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and Type 2 diabetes, notes a release from the Corn Refiners Association. A previous study critical of HFCS from the lead author, Dr. Michael I. Goran, has met with severe criticism for both its study design and conclusions. Most importantly, Goran's newest attack on HFCS fails to account for widespread agreement among scientists and medical doctors that HFCS and sucrose (table sugar) are nutritionally equivalent.
Accordin to Audrae Erickson, president of the Corn Refiners Association, "This latest article by Dr. Goran is severely flawed, misleading and risks setting off unfounded alarm about a safe and proven food and beverage ingredient. There is broad scientific consensus that table sugar and high fructose corn syrup are nutritionally and metabolically equivalent. It is, therefore, highly dubious of Dr. Goran--without any human studies demonstrating a meaningful nutritional difference between high fructose corn syrup and sugar--to point an accusatory finger at one and not the other. Dr. Goran commits the most fundamental of research errors: Just because an ingredient is available in a nation's diet does not mean it is uniquely the cause of a disease.