Dr. Mercola August 14 2008 59,304 views
Why does MonkeyPuss have negative points? what is so wrong with this comment???
Hello Aaltrude, Let us call Aspartame a poison, "non-food" just doesn't quite scare the hell out of people enough in my opinion.
Hi MonkeyPuss. Anyway you can find out and then post where your stepmom found this greens shake recipe/diet? I would love to read more. I tried a google of chimpanzee diet but didn't find anything :)
Thanks!
Correct on commercial Vs natural fruit fructose. It is the co-natural ingredients found in unprocessed foods that make the difference. HFCS is used because it is cheaper than cane or beet sugar but contains NO NUTRIENTS. It is a hollow calorie. Today much of it is made from waste cellulose processed with Hydrochloric acid and other chemicals and has no relationship to corn and little relationship to food.
Reverend Alan's comment on Aspartame as a poison is right on, needs no further comment.
Try this for "chimpanzee" drinks: www.greensmoothiechallenge.com
High fructose corn syrup and soybean oil is in everything processed today. Makes me want to slap somebody. I wrote Hellmann's about it and I got back a generic response that was typical public relations bull do. They wanted me to know soybean oil has been an ingredient since 1950 and is a safe, healthy ingredient to consumers. Products that are suppose to be great for diabetics have HFCS. Energy drinks for kids have HFCS. It's all propaganda from the food industry. I saw a commercial a while ago that suggested a popular soda pop was good food. Say what????
Correct, Sugar is Sugar by any other name it is still sugar. Sucrose, fructose, dextrose, lactose, maltose, honey, maple syrup. or molasses, it is all sugar. I have been studying health for 30 years and the medical profession is still arguing which is better, mono-saccharide or disaccharide, that is one or two molecule carbohydrates. It makes no difference they enter your bloodstream within 2 minutes and you body has no defense against this happening. The quantity of sugar causes blood sugar to rise and drive it out of control. The body then reacts through several mechanisms before the insulin reaction.
In 1896 the total consumption of all sugars, (white sugar, molasses, sorghum, honey) was 4.3 pounds / yr,, Now in just the commercial HFCS and sucrose it is over 150 pounds /yr. per person.
In 1990 I did a statistical analysis of world wide degenerative disease rates per capita per country and compared it to sugar consumption per capita per country for 170 countries of the world. There was a 96% correlation between the two.
The more sugar consumed equals more degenerative disease. Forget about what kind of sugar. If you want to be healthy in general eliminate sugar from your diet......
It has taken me many years of study to find these links between sugar and disease, but they do exist.
I LOVED K2L's "prisonplanet" comment in response to the granite countertop article, but I'm not sure I can totally follow the reasoning with the comment here...considering we live MUCH longer now than we did back in 1896.
Don't get me wrong. I have eliminated all refined sugar from my diet during the past year. Occasionally I will put a small amount of maple syrup on a whole grain pancake or some honey on whole grain bread - but it is taking smaller quantities to satisfy me and now almost seems too sweet. It is interesting to note that I am actually starting to crave fruit. I NEVER did that before. Watermelon and peaches did the trick this week. I am not worried about the fructose in fruit. I have enough real problems to worry about.
Slinky,
The life expectancy difference does not say nearly as much about the general health of adults as you might think. Much of the difference can be attributed to decreased infant and child mortality--and much of that can be attributed to such simple things as better sanitation, handwashing (how many birthing women/babies died in the 1800's because the doctor had seen several other patients before attending a birth--all without washing his HANDS?), and antibiotics.
heatherj's answer to longevity hits the nail on the head. Life expectancy increase in the last 100 yrs in the US can nearly totally be attributed to improvements in public water and sanitation practices, and sanitation practices by doctors and not the medical or pharmaceutical industries in general. America has now dropped out of the top 20 countries in the world for longevity because we are one of the best fed but worst nourished countries due to our processed foods and dependance upon big Pharma drugs. The current generation in the US is the first in 100 years that will not live as long as their parents.
This is curious: the frugivore[mainly fruit eater]is always the thinnest person in the room. Terrible teeth, but otherwise healthy looking. It's not the best diet unless you are a monkey, I guess, but it doesn't seem to make primates "fat." I don't trust anything studies using fracionates or isolates tell me. And I hope they're not using my tax dollars for this "research," either.
I would find this study a lot more interesting if they had used actual fruit, with the fruitose content measured. "Processing" the fruit to isolate fruitose may alter how the body uses it. When in Hawaii we used to chew raw sugarcane. It's affect on my blood sugar and carbohydrate cravings were much different than using sugar as a condiment, let alone eating raw surgar.