May 11, 2010

High Fructose Corn Syrup- The Deadly Ingredient

Do you want to know why people of all ages are so much fatter
and ill so much more often than we were just 30 years ago?
To most people, it doesn't make sense. Actually it does.

Additives in foods are a MAJOR reason.  High Fructose Corn
Syrup is one of the worst additives to the modern diet.  It
is extremely destructive.  And the chilling health/illness
statistics thrown at us daily by the media are due, in a
large part, to High Fructose Corn Syrup found in thousands
of foods found on your grocer's shelves.

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The TV Commercial
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Recently there was a commercial on TV where one woman is
pouring fruit punch for kids at a birthday party.  Another
woman comes up to her and accuses her of not caring what
she feeds the kids.

The first woman says, "Excuse me?" and the second one
says, "That contains high fructose corn syrup.  You know
what they say about it."

The first woman responds, "Oh, you mean that it's made
from corn, it doesn't have artificial ingredients and like
sugar, it's fine in moderation?"

The second woman doesn't quite know how to explain the
dangers of high fructose corn syrup, and is left to look
stupid with no response.

A total crock.  The food processing industry is reeling
from all the bad press.  So instead of taking this killer
out of the foods, and lose all the profits, they are just
spinning it to make a deadly ingredient sound healthy.
I can't even imagine the number of class action lawsuits
that will be happening in the next few years because of
HFCS.  It is going to be a circus.  You watch.

For any of you who suspect that high fructose corn syrup
is not good for you but are like the tongue-tied woman in
the commercial, you won't want to miss a word of this. 

Because high fructose corn syrup is VERY dangerous to our
health has a bad reputation for VERY good reasons.

And worse yet, if you're like the lady pouring the fruit
punch that thinks HFCS is OK, you're killing yourself with
a slow, sweet death.

Here are the facts:

Let's start by addressing the 3 points made by the lady in
the commercial:

1)  HFCS is made from corn

This is said to show that HFCS is derived from a "natural"
source, thereby implying that it's good for you.   

Consider this:  Cocaine is derived from a natural source--
the South American coca plant--but that doesn't make it
good for you.  In fact, every dangerous chemical has at its
root, a natural source.  So this argument used to promote
this VERY dangerous food additive is laughable. 


2)  It doesn't have artificial ingredients

This is another twist on the attempt to get us to believe
HFCS is "natural."  And it does not swing.  HFCS is a
substance in a highly processed, artificial form that's
extremely harmful to your body -- who cares what's added or
not added to it?

It wouldn't matter much to me if hemlock was added to my
arsenic -- how about you?


3)  Like sugar, it's fine in moderation

WRONG!

All sugars are not created equal.

Sugar in the form of glucose is the energy your body
needs.  Every single cell in your body--especially your
brain--uses glucose.

Here's how glucose and fructose differ:

Liver stress
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Your body processes glucose and fructose in entirely
different ways.  Your liver needs to break down 100% of the
fructose you take in, but only 20% of the glucose.  So
fructose puts an added stress on your liver, an organ you
do not want to stress.

Plus fructose metabolism in the liver creates an abundance
of wastes and toxins including uric acid, which raises
blood pressure and causes gouty arthritis.  Extremely
painful.


Fat accumulation
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Since every cell in your body uses glucose, much of what
you take in is "burned up" quickly.  But fructose, on the
other hand, turns into fatty acids, bad cholesterol and
triglycerides, which in turn get stored as fat.

These fatty deposits accumulate in your liver and muscle
tissues, leading to insulin resistance, type II diabetes
and fatty liver disease. 


Feeling full vs. overeating
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Glucose suppresses your hunger hormones and stimulates
leptin, which helps decrease your appetite.  This is good.

But fructose has no effect on hunger hormones, and
interferes with leptin's communication with your brain,
which leads to overeating (and obesity).  This is bad.


The moderation joke
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In addition, with HFCS being added to soda and every
processed food imaginable, eating it "in moderation" is a
joke and basically impossible.  (More on that in number 4
below.)


4)  Fructose itself is not the devil

Fructose occurs naturally in fruits and vegetables.  And
if they were out only sources of fructose like they were
100 years ago, we would be fine. 

But things have changed drastically.

Before the early 1900's most people took in 15 grams or
less of fructose from fresh fruits and vegetables, and the
fructose was in its pure, natural form.

Now the fructose we consume is highly processed (usually
from genetically modified corn) and we get MUCH more than
15 grams or less per day. 

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