How High Fructose Corn Syrup Damages Your Body

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charmela — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:57:10 GMT

It's a good thing I never liked cola drinks, but there are so many things with artifical sweetners and the HFCS to sweeten them that probably makes up for that. I am afraid of the GM sugar beets that are coming soon. With no proper labeling, we may have to go "sugar free" or only use natural honey.

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gaiasfire — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:52:20 GMT

Michael Pollan has some good points about high-fructose corn syrup in his book " In defence of food". It seems alot of products in the US use HFCS as the main sweetner, and i see more and more of these being marketed as 'organic', especially cereals etc. Its unfortunate that the fact products being sold as organic are also deluding people in to thinking that they are healthy!!! Its all marketing and messing with people's heads....especially when you see these HFCS as the 2nd or 3rd ingredient........very confusing for the 'average' consumer.

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RobinN — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:39:30 GMT

My daughter was in the hospital because she had a seizure and her glucose was rather low when the EMTs reached her.

The doctor wanted her to have something to eat before he would release her. I told him she was not eating wheat or dairy. The meal came with wheat noodles, and cheese, and a 15% cranberry drink that had HFCS as the second ingredient.

I refused it!

What are they thinking?

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Krissisno — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:30:05 GMT

I do think we've been doomed from the start. My mom was told by the doc to put a little Karo syrup in water so the water would taste better to us when we were babies, so we would drink it. Now, we are finding out one rotten thing after another, from vaccines, to fluoride, to GMO's, to all these lies they have been dishing out telling us things are good for us when they are not.

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TOMTECHMAN — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:57:11 GMT

I am 62 and I look 40. I had 4 c- sections and that is the only drug I have taken in my life. I don't drink soda's and I don't eat sugar. I use Stevia as a sweetner. I try not to eat anything that is bad. This is not getting any easier. As I read all these things about the world, I wonder what is a person to eat by and by.

I will claim the promise in the Bible that says you can eat any deadly thing and it will not harm you. And I will depend on The Lord Jesus Christ. Read your bible and pray every day. This is the wisest thing you can do.

Mary

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Komic Kaze — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:19:13 GMT

I work in a grocery store part time and all the poor people, the underclass, the people on food stamps, they are mostly overweight. It is because they cannot afford good foods. Good foods are expensive. Bad food is cheap. So they stock up on frozen dinners and boxes of sugary cereals, while overlooking the apples that are about a dollar each down here in the South. It truly is a tragedy that people who cannot afford to get healthy foods are also not educated in healthy eating. There is a low-budget way to eat healthy, but you have to want to change your lifestyle from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese to baking your own whole wheat bread and oatmeal, not to mention having fresh produce on hand. But I know it is not easy for people living below the poverty line. I can empathize with you. Your children want the same low-quality foods you've been serving them all their lives, but you want to make a change. The FDA has created a country full of sugar addicts. HFCS is ten times worse, but the history of sugar is terrible, too. Well, that being said, no one who reads this newsletter should ever drink a can or bottle of soda again. Bottled soda costs less than bottled water...

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curious7 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:30:45 GMT

At the end of the day we as a culture appear to love being led around by the nose, no taste buds, no stomache, what ever, by the people who more or less regard our health as nothing. Too many of us do not read, and many more of us do not want someone to tell us what is wrong with our food.

As humans, eating is the most intimate process we engage in. So as far as the Processed Food Industry, and the Soft Drink Industry is concerned, they have done nothing wrong. We simply choose, or choose not to consume their products. Like being dropped in a field full of landmines. Stay still and you live. Move and you die. At the same time few of us know about the addicting qualities of HFCS. Not to mention other addictive qualities added to foods, and drinks to keep Americans consuming. MONEY. The root of all evil.

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scottchiro — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:18:57 GMT

I remember reading somewhere (Fields, M, Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1984, 175:530-537) that HFCS interferes with copper metabolism to such a degree that it interferes with the function of lysl oxidase. Lysl oxidase participates in the formation of collagen and elastin. You can follow the chain of events from there.

Just don't consume it! Like my 10 year old daughter says, "Just drink cyanide. It's quicker!"

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grouaaso — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:38:07 GMT

I have a comment to Cacao about Doctor Richard Schulze. I agree with allot of the things he has to say, however I don't agree that animal fat is bad for you. Especially if you get free range organic meats. There are some primitive cultures in Australia and Africa that eat mostly red meat in their diets and have for hundreds if not thousands of years and they are very healthy and have none of the degenerative diseases we have here. I also don't know if doing all those cleanses on a regular basis is such a good idea. I don't know how old Dr. Shulze is, but when he talks about how they wanted to operate on his heart, it was in the 1960's and he was 16 years old at the time. I turned 16 in the 1970's and am currently 46 years old, so I am assuming he is around 60 years old. I have one of his current newsletter solicitations from him that has a recent picture of him on the front. He does not look that healthy to me. I mean, take a look at him. He is all bald and grey, and has a gut on him like Santa Claus. I showed his picture to a few of my friends and they all said he looks like he is in his 60's. You would think with all them cleanses he does and other healthy things he does he would have an athletic body and look no older than 45 years old. Doctor Mercola has even had some articles on his web site about how eliminating meat from your diet can be really bad for some people. I tried his incurables program back in 2001 and after 15 days I got to where I could hardly walk so I had to stop it. Anyway what do you think about all this? Grouaaso

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active lady — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:40:44 GMT

I am boycotting high fructose corn syrup. i read the label on everything I pick up at the grocery store. If it contains this insidius ingredient, i put it back on the shelf. If we can stop people from buying it, maybe the food manufacturers will stop using it.

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nitrotango — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:54:21 GMT

Jones Soda is the only brand in-the-market today that uses pure cane sugar as opposed to corn syrup. I love it and it has teas, energy drinks without caffene (natural supplement with focus power), and contributes to children's causes...a real winner..try it, you'll never go back to conventional soda products. You can even get it in Walmart and Target....

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Pauletta — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:02:29 GMT

This is a test, I am having difficulties posting on this new format. Is anyone else?

Paulette

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kristiyarb — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:29:12 GMT

And I STILL can;t believe they put HFCS in most 100% whole wheat breads!

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kristiyarb — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:26:46 GMT

The reasons for HFCS being used in so many foods now has to do with the government imposing tariffs on imported sugar cane. The gov. makes it cheaper for food processors to use the HFCS (which they of course have ruled "safe") than to use real sugar. We won't even touch on the fact that the FDA rules this safe, and that they make it cheaper for processors to use, then turn around and try to tell us why we are getting fat.

This article also doesn't mention the fact that HFCS blocks the signals that tell you when you are full, thus causing you to eat even more of it!

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The New Christine — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:03:40 GMT

So, I'm reading my morning paper and I come accross this article which had me laughing. I think that's really the only reason I subscibe to the paper-to read the BS that they're trying to pass as news and have a good laugh at it. The title was "Study: Diet soda doesn't lessen heart-disease risk". What??? Are you serious??? The article went on to state that people who drank 1 diet soda daily had developed the same risk for developing heart disease as those who drank regular soda loaded with HFCS. The "researchers" were confused with the results. How could this be? The "doc" who authored the study made it clear that the findings do not show that diet sodas are a cause of increased risk of heart disease. There was a nutritionist who stated that she doesn't agree with the study and that there should be warning labels on soda bottles, just like the surgeon general has posted on cigarettes, warning the people of the negative health effects of soda. Of course someone from the American Beverage Association stated that it defies common sence that diet drinks are associated with people gaining weight. (Are they freakin kidding me??? How about the fact that Splenda is loaded with sugar and all the other chemical sweeteners do things to peoples bodies that create the cravings for more and more sweets??)

This article cracked me up and made me sick! It's funny how they play the "oh, I don't know why people are getting fat-it's diet food" kick. Well, just thought I'd put my 2 cents in. :)