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Check the ingredients label of processed foods and you will find that most all have HFCS. The Food Industry claims that HFCS is no different than white sugar.

When it comes to HFCS, there are only two real concerns:

(1) People are consuming HFCS (and other sweeteners) in quantities never before experienced in human history, up to 140 pounds a year compared with not more than a pound per year just two hundred years ago;

(2) High fructose corn syrup is most always found in very poor quality foods that are nutritionally depleted and filled with all sorts of other disease promoting compounds, fats, salt, chemicals, and even mercury.

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High fructose corn syrup (also called glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup) is a sweetener made from corn starch that has been processed by glucose isomerase to convert some of its glucose into fructose.

It was first marketed in the early 1970s by the Clinton Corn Processing Company, together with the Japanese Agency of Industrial Science and Technology where the enzyme was discovered in 1965.

As a sweetener, HFCS is often compared to granulated sugar, but manufacturing advantages of HFCS over sugar include that it is easier to handle and extremely more cost effective than sugar.

Although there are many who claim that HFCS presents greater health risks than other sweeteners, the food industry has dismissed all manufacturing and safety concerns. Furthermore, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has stated that HFCS is a safe ingredient for all food and beverage manufacturing.

Apart from comparisons between HFCS and table sugar, there is increasing evidence that the over consumption of sugar in any form, including HFCS, is a major health problem, especially for onset of obesity. Consuming sugars, particularly as sweetened soft drinks, is strongly linked to weight gain and many other diseases.

The World Health Organization has for years recommended that people limit their consumption of added sugars to less than 10% of calories ¹, but experts say that typical consumption of empty calories in the United States is much higher than the above recommended level. The article states that the research from 2012 found that the average amount of empty calories for females is 624 calories and for males is 923 caleries. The worst empty calories come from food with added alcohol content, sugars, solid fats, and processed oils. There is a list of these foods in the article and are those that taste good and often cause people to crave them.

Doubt and confusion are the tools of deception sowing the seeds of complacency. These tools are used skillfully through internet facts sheets, massive print marketing and television advertising campaigns by the food industry′s attempt to dispel what they call the myth that HFCS is harmful. They further assert through the opinion of their personally selected and paid medical and nutrition experts that there is no difference between HFCS and cane sugar.

In a totally biased report, Jennifer Temple, associate professor of exercise and nutrition sciences at the University at Buffalo in New York says "In my opinion, there is no real difference between sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, High-fructose corn syrup is more processed, but most of the sugar we use has also been refined and processed."

The same industry companies blatantly state that HFCS is a natural food which "poses no inherent health risk" and is a healthy part of our diet when used in moderation. The industry goes on to say, "It is important to note that attempts to demonize one food or ingredient only serve to confuse consumers and make it more difficult for people to make meaningful diet choices."

Surely, this food industry is ignoring all of the actual research that has been done to show the opposite of their claims.

High fructose corn syrup is a chemical that is not recognized or understood by our brain, it confuses the Ghrelin hormone (the hormone that helps regulate appetite) and disrupts the production of the Leptin hormone (the satiety hormone, that says ‘I am full’). Instead, fructose effectively forces your brain to make you eat more than you should. In fact, the brain begins to crave fructose which becomes an addictive substance to the brain, effectively eight to ten times more addictive than cocaine or heroin.

Too, when our body does not recognize a substance, it turns it into and stores it as fat. Our bodies are well adept at making and storing fat from all unknown substances. Thus, the more HFCS a person eats, the fatter they will become.

Like regular cane sugar, HFCS also consists of glucose and fructose, but not in the normal 50-50 ratio of cane sugar, but a 45-55 glucose to fructose ratio in a loosely connected (unbound) form. ² When fructose is ingested, no digestion is required to separate the glucose from the fructose, and thus fructose is rapidly absorbed into your blood stream.

Fructose then goes right to the liver and triggers lipogenesis (the production of fats like triglycerides and cholesterol) causing a condition called fatty liver, the major cause of liver damage, currently affecting 70 million people in this country. At the same time, the rapidly absorbed glucose triggers big spikes in insulin, our body′s fat storage hormone.

These physiological effects of HFCS lead to increased metabolic disturbances that drive increases in appetite, weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and a long list that seems endless.

As the debate about this health concern continues to rage on, the large agricultural, commercial food and industrial industries expend millions of dollars lobbing the government agencies who have put their backing on these industries.

Now, even the medical industry has begun to produce their evidence that HFCS is no different than cane sugar.

The food industry states in their propaganda report, in Section 5, The Bottom Line: "High-fructose corn syrup is a safe and important functional ingredient in many foods. All sugars, including HFCS, can be included in a health promoting diet if eaten in moderation."

The above statement by the food industry has one very serious short coming. When HFCS is used in any amount, even when used in moderation, it becomes a major cause of accelerated aging, cancer, dementia, diabetes, fatty liver disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, inflammation, leaky gut syndrome, liver stress, mercury poisoning, obesity, tooth decay, and an onslaught of many more modern diseases.

All of the above statements are readily available online. Need I say more?

The real cause of heart attacks begin when cholesterol, a naturally occurring hormone, attaches to the inside of the artery and then hardens. The continual attaching and hardening of cholesterol gradually narrows the opening that blood flows through. As more cholesterol attaches to the arterial wall, albeit slowly, the arterial opening continues to be reduced in diameter.

Blood clots naturally and normally flow in our blood and when the artery opening becomes smaller than a blood clot, the resulting abrupt blockage of blood flow caused by a blood clot in such a narrowed area of the artery is a heart attack.

A normal healthy arterial wall lining does not allow for the cholesterol to attach and harden into a plaque forming into atherosclerosis, so why does it do so? The arterial walls are lined with a thin layer of cells that keeps them smooth and allows blood to flow easily. This layer is called the endothelium. Atherosclerosis occurs when the endothelium becomes damaged, creating scar tissue. This scar tissue then allows cholesterol to gain a foothold to the arterial wall, first in what appears to be streaks of fat on the endothelium, which begins, in the American diet as early as eight years old.

In most instances, it is caused from the sharp edge of a food molecule which cuts the wall lining, leaving the scar. Once the scar tissue occurs, the cholesterol has a place to take hold and begin to build upon. The more the lining is damaged, the more places the cholesterol has to attach and grow. (See above: Buyer Beware)

By continuing to ingest food which causes arterial lining damage, eventually, the plaque on the wall lining will grow until it closes the artery from inside. Logically, then, wouldn′t we avoid eating the food that causes this to happen? And wouldn′t you know it, HFCS is the primary culprit causing damage to the endothelium.

It would be evident to most people from the above information, that to prevent plaque build up and consequential heart attacks, one would need to eliminate HFCS from their diet. This however, is not an easy task as it seems that everything found in the modern day food markets and nearly all restaurants are totally saturated with HFCS. So what can a person do to get on the right path?

The answer to this question is discussed on another page on this web site. For information about food lacking in the bad affects of HFCS, go to Living Food.

Although the pharmaceutical companies claim that their drugs "reduce cholesterol and the cause of heart attacks," which claims have yet to be proven, their drugs do absolutely nothing to remove the hardened cholesterol nor increase the size of the arterial opening.

However, the hardened cholesterol plaque can be removed with the simple addition to the diet of cardiovascular antioxidants, found in nutritional supplements. These supplements, not only remove the plaque, but they also heal the endothelium lining of the arterial walls which will also prevent further attaching by the cholesterol.

What are the supplements that both remove the hardened plaque and heal the inner lining of the arterial walls? The answer to this question can be found within another page on this website, at a section called The Real Cure for Heart Attack.

Fructose in any form has negative health effects on the human body. Processed fruit juice, even the unsweetened variety, has large quantities of fructose and should not be consumed except in very small amounts. Instead eating whole fruits with the built in blood sugar balancing fiber is a much better option. Juice boxes have become a large part of the diet of most children today, but parents must needs become aware of the serious health threats of drinking these processed fruit juices.

All soft drinks are bad for the health! The average soda contains toxic levels of HFCS; even the so called healthy alternatives contain large concentration of fructose. Instead of fruit based drinks, try carbonated mineral water or bottled at the source spring water. Also try home brewed herbal tea and green tea, but avoid most commercially bottled iced teas which are loaded with HFCS.

The best way to avoid the consumption of fructose is to avoid any and all processed food in your diet; those foods that normally comes in a bag, bottle, box, can or foil wrap.

Even though some of these containers are used for quality foods, when ever you purchase a produce in a package, check the label and make sure it does not have HFCS in the ingredients. Remember, the best food to eat is raw and fresh foods.

Life is a journey, and the life journey most preferred is one with the least amount of affliction, disease, mourning, outcry and pain. (Revelation 21:3 - 4)

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