The Impact of One Man’s Outrage

I have known it was bad for you (Hfcs) for years and I always looked at labels to try to avoid it.What is the process or rea­son it is bad? Technically I mean. My friend says it is the same as nat­ural fruc­tose found in fruit.What is the dif­fer­ence? Is Karo syrup the same
thanks.

I posted sim­i­lar info in a com­ment on FB, in ref­er­ence to one of the HFCS discussions.

Fructose is fruc­tose. It is harm­ful to the body whether it comes from the artificially-bred sugar-enhanced fruits that humans altered to suit their taste buds, or from 1/2 of the Sucrose mol­e­cule found in Table Sugar, or from the 31% you will find on aver­age in honey, or from HFCS.

It’s all bad. It all gets metab­o­lized in the liver and turned straight into triglyc­erides, which can­not be burned for energy, only stored in fat cells.

Fructose is also far more likely than glu­cose to con­tribute to gly­ca­tion (sug­ars attach­ing) of vital pro­teins in the body, dena­tur­ing enzymes and ren­der­ing them useless.

They use it in indus­try because it is sub­si­dized by the gov­ern­ment to cre­ate a mar­ket for all the corn they insist on grow­ing; that which doesn’t get rammed down the throats of food ani­mals in CAFOs and turned into less-healthy-than-grassfed meat.

They also use it because it is hygro­scopic, so it absorbs water read­ily mak­ing food moist and hav­ing a higher water con­tent, so their prof­its are higher.

Lastly, fruc­tose is sweeter than sucrose or glu­cose, so they can use less for the same sweet taste, thus sav­ing more money.

It is use­less to ask them to ban HFCS. There is noth­ing out there that they will replace it with that is any bet­ter for you. They aren’t going to start using ery­thri­tol or ste­via to sweeten food for the main­stream; they will remain niche sweeteners.

Replacing HFCS with sugar is a wash, because they are vir­tu­ally chem­i­cally iden­ti­cal. Table sugar is 1 mol­e­cule of Fructose bonded with 1 mol­e­cule of glu­cose, so it is 50% fruc­tose, 50% glu­cose. The most com­mon HFCS is 55% fruc­tose, 45% glu­cose. BFD. The dif­fer­ence is aca­d­e­mic. Soon as it hits your stom­ach, the bonds are bro­ken and they are vir­tu­ally indistinguishable.

The true cure is for the gov­ern­ment to stop push­ing sweets and grains on the pop­u­la­tion. If they began putting warn­ing labels on candy and “heart-healthy-whole-grains”, explain­ing that car­bo­hy­drate intake above 100g/day has been linked to can­cer, heart dis­ease, dia­betes, Alzheimer’s, gout (espe­cially fruc­tose), rheuma­toid dis­or­ders, and obe­sity, maybe peo­ple would stop think­ing they were OK drink­ing all that soda and munch­ing on those chips just because they have whole grains in them.

Whole Grain Chocolate Cheerios my butt.

HFCS is just fruc­tose, but you get 38 grams of it in 12 oz of soda (Coke, I believe) and just a few in a piece of fruit.

Also, I sus­pect the author means Cirrhosis of the liver rather than psoriasis…

Watch the doc­umetary “King Corn”–it gives the low down in a very sub­tle man­ner, ini­tially… In fact, two col­lege room mates find out that their grand­par­ents were from the same small town in Iowa. They decide to take a road trip and hmmm, what did they discover???

I get very high blood pres­sure not only from HFCS that is made from Bt-corn [genet­i­cally mod­i­fied], but also from corn chips and corn tacos made from Bt-corn. Organic or non-GMO corn does not affect me. Exo-toxins in HFCS include the Bt-toxin [pes­ti­cide], glyphosate [her­bi­cide} and of course fruc­tose itself. HFSC used to con­tain mer­cury from the man­u­fac­ture of the lye used in mak­ing HFCS.

It all starts with end­ing sub­si­diza­tion of GM crops… Farmers in the heart­land, Midwest need to start grow­ing food and not poi­son that is deplet­ing out soils nat­ural resources, killing the us and the land.

I also heard that a test revealed they found mer­cury in HFcs. And it isn’t part of any pro­cess­ing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html

While I agree HFCS is part of the prob­lem, vit­a­min D defi­ciency is wide­spread in chil­dren and may be a big part of the prob­lem too as it is related to immune func­tion. Look up the Vitamin D Council and Dr. John Cannell. Also type 2 dia­betes can be cured by a diet heavy on raw veg­eta­bles and some other things — see Dr. Joel Fuhrman and “Eat to Live”.

Lots of excel­lent com­men­tary here, but can some­body here tell us about the MERCURY in hfcs? Mercury seems to be all the rage these days from thimersol mer­cury in your flue shots (vac­cines in gen­eral) and den­tal amal­gam antibi­otics the pes­ti­cides on your food and the jew­elry on your neck. It seems good ol’ Mercury will be with us for more than a while. A lit­tle in your fish a lit­tle in your candy a lit­tle in your dairy a lit­tle in your light bulbs before ya know it you’re mad as a hat­ter. I’ve read that there is no longer any Mercury in hfcs but I call bullsh*t and espe­cially where the gov­ern­ment is con­cerned. Are peo­ple get­ting dumber? As we can see espe­cially here in the good ol’ U.S. of A there is a delib­er­ate and cal­cu­lated dumb­ing down of soci­ety, and the way mer­cury neuters neo­rofib­rils in the brain, or sim­ply put makes ya dumb it is the per­fect hid­den ingre­di­ent to carry out that agenda, and don’t look now but hfcs is even in… well just about everything.

Read “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes. It answers all of your ques­tions and more.

Do not be sur­prised that HFCS (a harm­ful food addi­tive) is fed to us. They call us con­sumers. That is our func­tion in the cor­po­rate profit structure- TO CONSUME. GM foods like HFCS also con­tain her­bi­cide and pes­ti­cide residues. There is a furi­ous effort afoot to defund the FDA because its mis­sion inter­feres with mega food pro­duc­ers’ prof­its. Sick peo­ple con­tribute to Big Pharma. No one is pro­tect­ing the “con­sumer” any­more. So, it is up to us to watch what we con­sume. The old slo­gan, “Buyer Beware” was never more appro­pri­ate than now.

We are get­ting hit with radi­a­tion on the west coast and accross America. We are told not to worry.. its safe. I look around the grociery store and I see the same lies as Nuclear power plants gone wrong. Lies and more lies in attrac­tive col­or­ful pack­ag­ing.
For those who already have type 2 dia­betes…. Take a look at the herbs Berberine, Boswellia also Alpha Lipoic Acid.

Typically Type 1 take shots, Type 2

Actually a lot of type 2 dia­bet­ics take insulin shots it just depends on insulin resis­tance and the amount of insulin being produced.