High Fructose Corn Syrup – The New Nicotine

What you don’t know will hurt you.

Pick up any pre-packaged, ready to eat food and read the label. Among the ingredients that you are likely to find on the list is High Fructose Corn Syrup.
This is the major sweetening agent contained in everything from so-called juice to cookies and snack cakes, all the way to so-called "healthy" products such as granola bars and yogurt.

Six times sweeter than sugar, this product has one interesting and important characteristic that everyone should know about and should understand.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is a complex, synthetic sugar. It is not broken down in the digestive tract like other sugars.It does not meet its match among the enzymes of the stomach and intestines. Instead, it goes straight to the liver, where it stresses the liver in the same way that alcohol does.

Note: Ever had a hangover? Ever wonder why some people complain that mixed drinks give them evil hangovers? Consider that drinking three rum and cokes is like giving your liver six instead.

Liver Schmiver.So What?

Here’s what. The liver shoots the High Fructose Corn Syrup into the blood stream improperly processed. It can’t make a synthetic sugar into a real one. So the muscles of the body try to take over. But the by-products of High Fructose Corn Syrup actually inhibit the muscles’ ability to properly burn fuel. Fat forms. A lot of fat. And it forms around muscles and organs alike, further stressing the body.

No Nutrition.In exchange for all of these calories dumped directly into your liver and forthwith converted to fat of the most dangerous kind, you the Human Being get zero nutrition. ZERO. What’s more, your body’s ability to absorb vitamins and other needed elements is inhibited.

There is nothing good about High Fructose Corn Syrup, except that it is cheap for manufactures, and increases the “mouth feel” and visual appearance on food on the shelves. But it is killing us.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is the single biggest contributor to the double-digit increase in childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes where there should be none. This product is more dangerous than nicotine could ever imagine being . Children are the main marketing targets for cheap snack foods filled with empty calories and risky synthetic additives and so-called "natural sweeteners". The long term health effects will break the bank of our public health system. And this highly processed, synthetic product is everywhere.

Take control of your health now and begin restricting the number of calories you take in via High Fructose Corn Syrup. If you don’t, you may suffer long term effects later.

Don’t believe me?

Here’s a quick but efficient reading list:

FatLand: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World , Greg Crister. 2004.Houghton Mifflen .

“Manufacturing, composition and applications of fructose,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, volume 58, suppl., pages s724 – s732; Mark Hanover & John S. White.

Alternative Sweeteners, editor Lyn O’Brien, New York:2001

“Worldwide production of high-fructose syrup and crystalline fructose,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, v. 58, supp, November 1993, pages s73 –
2736; S. Vuilleumer.