This Is A Thread That No One Can Argue With
Feb 3, 2016 00:58:56 #
Does anyone here have a weight problem? Have you ever wondered why so many people you see are fat? downright Obese?
Everyone has genes from their parents, and that can have a certain degree of effect on how you look, but that's only about 5% of reason that you look like you do an feel like you do.
The biggest reason you look the way you look has to do with what you put in you mouth; (and swallow!) I have always been mildly interested in "eating right".....the problem is though, most of the stuff that I like to eat is downright BAD for you!
I like ketchup on my hash browns; but here's where most people go wrong right off the bat; the next time you're in a super market, go to where the ketchup is; there will be maybe a dozen brands; read the label on EVERY brand; (not the nutrition label, just where it says, "ingredients contained are......") You'll notice that all of them, or almost all of them will say, "HFCS" or "high fructose corn syrup"; so far, I have only found one brand that makes ketchup WITHOUT any HFCS....Hunts! Actually, Hunts make it both "with" and "without"; I found some yesterday at Kroger's that says "No HFCS"; I actually called the 800 number on the ketchup bottle and thanked them for making their ketchup without HFCS in it; the lady asked me a lot of questions; believe me, these big companies try very hard to keep their finger on the "pulse" of what consumers "want'! The more people let them know, "any HFCS and I don't BUY IT, the quicker they'll stop using it! Anyway.......so.....what's the problem? Here's the problem.........
HFCS High Fructose Corn Syrup......what exactly is it?
HFCS is a derivative of corn, a highly processed and highly toxic sweetener that is one of the cheapest and most readily available sweeteners; hence its extremely wide usage and 4000% increase since 1973 now being one of Americas most common sweeteners. And average American consumes over 42 pounds of HFCS each year according to the USDA (the actual figures might be much higher today). Counting that in calories, thats over 75,200 extra calories per year coming at over 22 pounds a year per person! And that is JUST from soda, energy drinks, and juice drinks alone! If the average American cut down just one soft drink or sugary drink a day they would instantly lose 10 pounds a year! Teenagers usually get around 15-20 teaspoons of added sugars in their soft drinks. Some studies show that sodas have replaced milk as a dietary staple and have become the third most common breakfast food. Drinking this sugar bomb at any time leads to a major crash in a few hours causing more hunger, insulin spikes, insulin resistance, and heavy weight gain. It is not surprising at all that so many teenagers are so overweight! Contrary to popular belief, HFCS is not a natural substance, it is refined from corn and it does not occur in nature. There are a lot of natural substances that when refined become detrimental to our health. Just because it is made from corn does not mean it is good for you. It is an artificial ingredient just like sucrose (table sugar), it must be refined in a lab to take shape; it does not occur naturally by itself!
The stupidity of the argument It occurs in nature, then it must be totally safe! is beyond belief. Hydrocyanic acid, perhaps one of the most poisonous organic acids known, exists in minute traces in the fruit of peaches and plums, associated often with benzaldehyde, a flavoring agent. It exists in some varieties of cassava in such proportions that even fatal effects have resulted from eating the cassava starch. Salicylic acid is present in a flavoring product known and may exist, in traces, also in other food products. Another organic poison, arsenic, is a widely distributed poisonous material which is often found in our foods, due to absorption from the soil. It is to our own benefit to REDUCE these substances not isolate them and add them to our foods! The same can be said of preservatives, additives, colorants, taste enhancers etc. Yes they occur in nature, but that doesnt mean we need to isolate them and add them to our food in high amounts. Research proves that our highest caloric intake comes from HFCSs, which are empty, unhealthy, even toxic calories which we absolutely do not need. If we take into account just how much of it we intake, then it becomes a serious issue. The reason why it is used? It is cheaper to make and almost twice sweeter than regular sugar.
There are a lot of studies out there showing that HFCS behaves much differently in our bodies than regular table sugar. HFCS is different than the fructose in corn, it is high fructose syrup. What they do is extract the glucose from the corn and add a chemical to it to turn it back into fructose. The fructose seen naturally in fruits and vegetables on the other hand is completely different, gets digested much easier, and is not harmful to our bodies. However, a Princeton research team has again demonstrated that all sweeteners are NOT equal when it comes to weight gain -- rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. Additionally, Science Daily quotes Professor Hoebel, a specialist in the neuroscience of appetite, weight and sugar addiction, as saying: "Some people have claimed that high-fructose corn syrup is no different than other sweeteners when it comes to weight gain and obesity, but our results make it clear that this just isn't true, at least under the conditions of our tests.
When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese -- every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight. People who have struggled with their weight for years; examining their diets, avoiding fat and counting calories, yet not getting anywhere and wondering what theyre doing wrong, you need to pay very close attention to this issue. Long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides. Making matters even worse, two other recent studies have also linked HFCS to liver disease.
Science Daily writes: "We found that increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup was associated with scarring in the liver, or fibrosis, among patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)," said Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Duke University Medical Center. The researchers found only 19 percent of adults with NAFLD reported no intake of fructose-containing beverages, while 52 percent consumed between one and six servings a week and 29 percent consumed fructose-containing beverages on a daily basis. After following up on nearly 16, 000 people over the course of three to nine years, the risk of chronic kidney disease increased by over 150 percent in those who consumed more than one soft drink per day.
Part of what makes HFCS such an unhealthy product is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar, and, because most fructose is consumed in liquid form, its negative metabolic effects are significantly magnified. When you eat a fruit or vegetable the transition from sugar to fat is not so quick and your blood sugar level does not rise at such a monstrous rate. The fact is our bodies are not designed to ingest pure sugar in its raw form in such quantities!
"We have identified an environmental risk factor that may contribute to the metabolic syndrome of insulin resistance and the complications of the metabolic syndrome, including liver injury." This means something from our environment (sugar) is the cause of insulin resistance and liver damage amongst other diseases; this includes type 2 diabetes, or adult onset diabetes as it was before children began developing it.
The reason for the increased sugar and in turn HFCS is because of farm subsidies. In 2002 the Bush administration signed a 190 billion dollar farm subsidy act which paid farmers to grow more corn. The United States already had a surplus of corn; they had more corn than they knew what to do with. So why on earth did the government decide to subsidize them even more? Well, the market price for a bushel of corn is $2, but it costs the farmer about $3 to grow that bushel. This means someone has to pay the farmer that extra dollar. So the American peoples' tax dollars, about 14 billion per year, pay for
the remaining dollar. You would think that this subsidy is helping farmers right? Not so. This action of sending tax dollars to help pay for corn brings the price of corn down. But for whom? Not the sweet corn on your grocery shelves, but the corn (which is all genetically modified) that is used for HFCS that is found in virtually all foods on your grocery shelves, but mostly soft drinks and candy bars which are produced by the giant corporations like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mars etc. So the regular people, through their tax dollars, are helping the giant corporations save a few bucks when they use the genetically modified corn to make HFCS and poison you. Pause for a second to really understand this. Even if you dont eat junk food, your tax dollars are still subsidizing this poison so it can end up in more foods.
It's a never-ending circle. You pay to subsidize this poison that is causing an epidemic obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. You then pay again for all the medical procedures, drugs, pills, doctors and hospitals that treat these diseases. All the while, the only people making billions of dollars are the junk food producers and the pharmaceutical companies that sell you drugs, pills and medical procedures to treat your new diseases. Absolutely mind-boggling. So while the companies are getting a better deal on their sweetener, the population is seeing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, in part helped by your own tax dollars. HFCS is the only caloric sweetener in U.S. soft drinks and it constitutes over 60 percent of the calories in apple juice. HFCS is used as a base for many fruit drinks. The primary source of HFCS in the American diet is soda and juice-- about two-thirds of all HFCS consumed in the United States is in beverages. So why is HFCS killing you?
Fructose is Metabolized to Fat The digestive and absorptive processes for glucose and fructose are different. Unlike glucose, fructose converts to fat more than any other sugar. It is also known to raise triglycerides significantly. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, comparing the effect of ingesting glucose vs. fructose found the following. The investigators divided 32 overweight men and women into two groups, and instructed each group to drink a sweetened beverage three times per day. They were told not to eat any other sugar. The drinks were designed to provide 25% of the participants' caloric intake. That might sound like a lot, but the average American actually gets about 25% of her calories from sugar!
That's the average, so there are people who get a third or more of their calories from sugar. In one group, the drinks were sweetened with glucose, while in the other group they were sweetened with fructose. After ten weeks, both groups had gained about three pounds. But they didn't gain it in the same place. The fructose group gained a disproportionate amount of visceral fat, which increased by 14%! Visceral fat is the most dangerous type; it's associated with and contributes to chronic disease,particularly metabolic syndrome, the quintessential modern metabolic disorder. You can bet their livers were fattening up too.
The bad news doesn't end there. The fructose group also saw a worsening of blood glucose control and insulin sensitivity. They also saw an increase in small, dense LDL particles and oxidized LDL, both factors that associate strongly with the risk of heart attack and may in fact contribute to it. Liver synthesis of fat after meals increased by 75% meaning most of the sugar was converted to fat right away, an occurrence not seen in glucose digestion. It's clear that the fructose group experienced a major metabolic shift, and the glucose group didn't. Practically every parameter they measured in the fructose group changed significantly over the course of the 9 weeks. It's incredible.
Graph found here: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37385/table/4 Fructose, and glucose for that part, is not meant to be consumed by itself as in HFCS or regular sugar. Fruits and vegetables have countless other substances that allow for proper digestion of the natural sugars in fruit. Yes, regular sugar, brown sugar, even HFCS is natural, but as discussed earlier, that doesnt mean its good for the body and is healthy for you. Dont be fooled by the natural statement, just because its natural doesnt mean it is good for you. Most Fructose is consumed as a liquid. The fact that most fructose is consumed in a liquid form significantly magnifies its negative metabolic effects because it is much easier to digest liquids than solids, meaning it absorbs quicker and in larger quantities. The devastation it has on our biology would be significantly lessened if it were consumed in solid food, but as I mentioned earlier, it is best to avoid all sugars in their free form. Fructose does not Stimulate Insulin secretion; In addition, unlike glucose, fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion or enhance leptin, a hormone thought to be involved in appetite regulation and production. Because insulin and leptin act as key signals in regulating how much food you eat and body weight, this suggests that dietary fructose may contribute to increased food intake and weight gain. This means the mechanism that tells your body that youve had enough food doesnt work, so you end up eating more.
Fructose, like all other free sugars, has no enzymes, vitamins or minerals so it must take micronutrients from the body to absorb itself for use. However, eating a small piece of whole fruit on the other hand, which contains natural fructose, is not likely to be a problem for most people because fresh fruits contain the enzymes, vitamins and minerals that are needed for the fructose to get properly digested and absorbed in the body. In an excellent book, The Saccharine Disease, Dr. T. L. Cleave demonstrates that many of the diseases that presently afflict us are relatively modem plagues. In his view, and what many other scientists around the globe believe, is that these diseases of civilization are due largely to the incredible increase in sugar consumption during the past century. Cleave shows that many diseases that are common today were virtually unknown until the introduction of refined sugar. These conditions include constipation, diverticular disease, varicose veins, thrombosis, hemorrhoids, dental caries (cavities), the twin plagues of obesity and diabetes, E.coli infections, and peptic ulcers. He also touches on the subject of colon cancer. Cleave rules out the possibility that these diseases were caused by the refining of wheat, since the wide-scale use of white bread dated from 1800, while the onslaught of these common modem diseases only happened in the early 20th century.
It is hard to comprehend the massive increase in sugar use in our society. In 1815, the average resident of Great Britain consumed about 15 pounds of sugar per year. When Cleave's book was published in England in 1974, this had risen to about 120 pounds per year. In the United States in 1999, each person consumed about 158 pounds of sugar every year! Thats a pound of sugar every two to three days! Since high-fructose corn syrup was developed more than 30 years ago, consumption of the sweetener, which flavors everything from soda pop to ranch dressing, has skyrocketed. Now Americans down more than 160 pounds a year each. Since 1950, soft-drink consumption per capita has quadrupled, from about 11 gallons per year to about 46 gallons in 2003--nearly a gallon a week per person. With all that sugar-eating, it's no wonder people don't have much room for their vegetables. In 2003, during the entire year, the average American consumed a dismal 8.3 pounds of broccoli and just over 25 pounds of dark lettuce (the kinds that are really good for you). How is your body supposed to be healthy when all you eat is nutrient and vitamin deficient foods full of sugar year after year?
The average American consumes about 20 teaspoons (almost one-half cup) of sugar per day, which accounts for 16 percent of our daily intake of calories. For teenagers, sugar consumption accounts for a full 20 percent of calories per day. In 1977 sugar accounted for "only" 11 percent of our caloric intake. This is the catch folks. A lot of the calories today come from sugar, and not the good sugar from fruits and vegetables (which is filled with enzymes, vitamins, and minerals). These empty sugar calories get converted straight to fat, rob your body from its dwindling supply of nutrients, promote an acidic environment, and become food for the bacteria in your body. Its like eating poison in a fancy wrapper. The total amount of food available for each person to eat increased 16 percent from 1,675 pounds in 1970 to 1,950 pounds in 2003. The increase in food available for consumption resulted in a corresponding jump in calories, from 2,234 calories per person per day in 1970 to 2,757 calories in 2003 (after adjusting for plate waste, spoilage, and other food losses). Believe it or not, even toddlers are being primed for a lifetime of sugar addiction. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), major manufacturers "encourage feeding soft drinks to toddlers by licensing their logos to a maker of baby bottles, Munchkin Bottling, Inc. Infants and toddlers are four times likelier to be fed soda pop out of those bottles than out of regular baby bottles." We have not yet spoken about the link between sugar and cancer. However, the affinity of cancerous tissue for sugar (glucose) is well known.
Im going to repeat that quote one more time; The affinity for cancerous tissue for sugar is well known. The fact is that cancer cells feed on sugar. If you create an acidic, oxygen-less environment, fill that environment with sugar and you are pretty much creating a breeding ground for cancer, bacteria, yeast infections (candida) and a body full of disease. This isnt some wacky conspiracy theory; these are cold hard scientific facts and simple biology. It is much simpler to prevent cancer than look for the cure in the form of drugs or surgical procedures. If you dont eliminate the CAUSE of cancer then it can never be cured. It is like trying to use chemicals to destroy bacteria clean the pond and there will be no bacteria. Instead we use chemicals to destroy everything in that pond and hope that the bacteria will be destroyed as well.
Everyone has genes from their parents, and that can have a certain degree of effect on how you look, but that's only about 5% of reason that you look like you do an feel like you do.
The biggest reason you look the way you look has to do with what you put in you mouth; (and swallow!) I have always been mildly interested in "eating right".....the problem is though, most of the stuff that I like to eat is downright BAD for you!
I like ketchup on my hash browns; but here's where most people go wrong right off the bat; the next time you're in a super market, go to where the ketchup is; there will be maybe a dozen brands; read the label on EVERY brand; (not the nutrition label, just where it says, "ingredients contained are......") You'll notice that all of them, or almost all of them will say, "HFCS" or "high fructose corn syrup"; so far, I have only found one brand that makes ketchup WITHOUT any HFCS....Hunts! Actually, Hunts make it both "with" and "without"; I found some yesterday at Kroger's that says "No HFCS"; I actually called the 800 number on the ketchup bottle and thanked them for making their ketchup without HFCS in it; the lady asked me a lot of questions; believe me, these big companies try very hard to keep their finger on the "pulse" of what consumers "want'! The more people let them know, "any HFCS and I don't BUY IT, the quicker they'll stop using it! Anyway.......so.....what's the problem? Here's the problem.........
HFCS High Fructose Corn Syrup......what exactly is it?
HFCS is a derivative of corn, a highly processed and highly toxic sweetener that is one of the cheapest and most readily available sweeteners; hence its extremely wide usage and 4000% increase since 1973 now being one of Americas most common sweeteners. And average American consumes over 42 pounds of HFCS each year according to the USDA (the actual figures might be much higher today). Counting that in calories, thats over 75,200 extra calories per year coming at over 22 pounds a year per person! And that is JUST from soda, energy drinks, and juice drinks alone! If the average American cut down just one soft drink or sugary drink a day they would instantly lose 10 pounds a year! Teenagers usually get around 15-20 teaspoons of added sugars in their soft drinks. Some studies show that sodas have replaced milk as a dietary staple and have become the third most common breakfast food. Drinking this sugar bomb at any time leads to a major crash in a few hours causing more hunger, insulin spikes, insulin resistance, and heavy weight gain. It is not surprising at all that so many teenagers are so overweight! Contrary to popular belief, HFCS is not a natural substance, it is refined from corn and it does not occur in nature. There are a lot of natural substances that when refined become detrimental to our health. Just because it is made from corn does not mean it is good for you. It is an artificial ingredient just like sucrose (table sugar), it must be refined in a lab to take shape; it does not occur naturally by itself!
The stupidity of the argument It occurs in nature, then it must be totally safe! is beyond belief. Hydrocyanic acid, perhaps one of the most poisonous organic acids known, exists in minute traces in the fruit of peaches and plums, associated often with benzaldehyde, a flavoring agent. It exists in some varieties of cassava in such proportions that even fatal effects have resulted from eating the cassava starch. Salicylic acid is present in a flavoring product known and may exist, in traces, also in other food products. Another organic poison, arsenic, is a widely distributed poisonous material which is often found in our foods, due to absorption from the soil. It is to our own benefit to REDUCE these substances not isolate them and add them to our foods! The same can be said of preservatives, additives, colorants, taste enhancers etc. Yes they occur in nature, but that doesnt mean we need to isolate them and add them to our food in high amounts. Research proves that our highest caloric intake comes from HFCSs, which are empty, unhealthy, even toxic calories which we absolutely do not need. If we take into account just how much of it we intake, then it becomes a serious issue. The reason why it is used? It is cheaper to make and almost twice sweeter than regular sugar.
There are a lot of studies out there showing that HFCS behaves much differently in our bodies than regular table sugar. HFCS is different than the fructose in corn, it is high fructose syrup. What they do is extract the glucose from the corn and add a chemical to it to turn it back into fructose. The fructose seen naturally in fruits and vegetables on the other hand is completely different, gets digested much easier, and is not harmful to our bodies. However, a Princeton research team has again demonstrated that all sweeteners are NOT equal when it comes to weight gain -- rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. Additionally, Science Daily quotes Professor Hoebel, a specialist in the neuroscience of appetite, weight and sugar addiction, as saying: "Some people have claimed that high-fructose corn syrup is no different than other sweeteners when it comes to weight gain and obesity, but our results make it clear that this just isn't true, at least under the conditions of our tests.
When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese -- every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight. People who have struggled with their weight for years; examining their diets, avoiding fat and counting calories, yet not getting anywhere and wondering what theyre doing wrong, you need to pay very close attention to this issue. Long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides. Making matters even worse, two other recent studies have also linked HFCS to liver disease.
Science Daily writes: "We found that increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup was associated with scarring in the liver, or fibrosis, among patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)," said Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Duke University Medical Center. The researchers found only 19 percent of adults with NAFLD reported no intake of fructose-containing beverages, while 52 percent consumed between one and six servings a week and 29 percent consumed fructose-containing beverages on a daily basis. After following up on nearly 16, 000 people over the course of three to nine years, the risk of chronic kidney disease increased by over 150 percent in those who consumed more than one soft drink per day.
Part of what makes HFCS such an unhealthy product is that it is metabolized to fat in your body far more rapidly than any other sugar, and, because most fructose is consumed in liquid form, its negative metabolic effects are significantly magnified. When you eat a fruit or vegetable the transition from sugar to fat is not so quick and your blood sugar level does not rise at such a monstrous rate. The fact is our bodies are not designed to ingest pure sugar in its raw form in such quantities!
"We have identified an environmental risk factor that may contribute to the metabolic syndrome of insulin resistance and the complications of the metabolic syndrome, including liver injury." This means something from our environment (sugar) is the cause of insulin resistance and liver damage amongst other diseases; this includes type 2 diabetes, or adult onset diabetes as it was before children began developing it.
The reason for the increased sugar and in turn HFCS is because of farm subsidies. In 2002 the Bush administration signed a 190 billion dollar farm subsidy act which paid farmers to grow more corn. The United States already had a surplus of corn; they had more corn than they knew what to do with. So why on earth did the government decide to subsidize them even more? Well, the market price for a bushel of corn is $2, but it costs the farmer about $3 to grow that bushel. This means someone has to pay the farmer that extra dollar. So the American peoples' tax dollars, about 14 billion per year, pay for
the remaining dollar. You would think that this subsidy is helping farmers right? Not so. This action of sending tax dollars to help pay for corn brings the price of corn down. But for whom? Not the sweet corn on your grocery shelves, but the corn (which is all genetically modified) that is used for HFCS that is found in virtually all foods on your grocery shelves, but mostly soft drinks and candy bars which are produced by the giant corporations like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mars etc. So the regular people, through their tax dollars, are helping the giant corporations save a few bucks when they use the genetically modified corn to make HFCS and poison you. Pause for a second to really understand this. Even if you dont eat junk food, your tax dollars are still subsidizing this poison so it can end up in more foods.
It's a never-ending circle. You pay to subsidize this poison that is causing an epidemic obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. You then pay again for all the medical procedures, drugs, pills, doctors and hospitals that treat these diseases. All the while, the only people making billions of dollars are the junk food producers and the pharmaceutical companies that sell you drugs, pills and medical procedures to treat your new diseases. Absolutely mind-boggling. So while the companies are getting a better deal on their sweetener, the population is seeing an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, in part helped by your own tax dollars. HFCS is the only caloric sweetener in U.S. soft drinks and it constitutes over 60 percent of the calories in apple juice. HFCS is used as a base for many fruit drinks. The primary source of HFCS in the American diet is soda and juice-- about two-thirds of all HFCS consumed in the United States is in beverages. So why is HFCS killing you?
Fructose is Metabolized to Fat The digestive and absorptive processes for glucose and fructose are different. Unlike glucose, fructose converts to fat more than any other sugar. It is also known to raise triglycerides significantly. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, comparing the effect of ingesting glucose vs. fructose found the following. The investigators divided 32 overweight men and women into two groups, and instructed each group to drink a sweetened beverage three times per day. They were told not to eat any other sugar. The drinks were designed to provide 25% of the participants' caloric intake. That might sound like a lot, but the average American actually gets about 25% of her calories from sugar!
That's the average, so there are people who get a third or more of their calories from sugar. In one group, the drinks were sweetened with glucose, while in the other group they were sweetened with fructose. After ten weeks, both groups had gained about three pounds. But they didn't gain it in the same place. The fructose group gained a disproportionate amount of visceral fat, which increased by 14%! Visceral fat is the most dangerous type; it's associated with and contributes to chronic disease,particularly metabolic syndrome, the quintessential modern metabolic disorder. You can bet their livers were fattening up too.
The bad news doesn't end there. The fructose group also saw a worsening of blood glucose control and insulin sensitivity. They also saw an increase in small, dense LDL particles and oxidized LDL, both factors that associate strongly with the risk of heart attack and may in fact contribute to it. Liver synthesis of fat after meals increased by 75% meaning most of the sugar was converted to fat right away, an occurrence not seen in glucose digestion. It's clear that the fructose group experienced a major metabolic shift, and the glucose group didn't. Practically every parameter they measured in the fructose group changed significantly over the course of the 9 weeks. It's incredible.
Graph found here: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37385/table/4 Fructose, and glucose for that part, is not meant to be consumed by itself as in HFCS or regular sugar. Fruits and vegetables have countless other substances that allow for proper digestion of the natural sugars in fruit. Yes, regular sugar, brown sugar, even HFCS is natural, but as discussed earlier, that doesnt mean its good for the body and is healthy for you. Dont be fooled by the natural statement, just because its natural doesnt mean it is good for you. Most Fructose is consumed as a liquid. The fact that most fructose is consumed in a liquid form significantly magnifies its negative metabolic effects because it is much easier to digest liquids than solids, meaning it absorbs quicker and in larger quantities. The devastation it has on our biology would be significantly lessened if it were consumed in solid food, but as I mentioned earlier, it is best to avoid all sugars in their free form. Fructose does not Stimulate Insulin secretion; In addition, unlike glucose, fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion or enhance leptin, a hormone thought to be involved in appetite regulation and production. Because insulin and leptin act as key signals in regulating how much food you eat and body weight, this suggests that dietary fructose may contribute to increased food intake and weight gain. This means the mechanism that tells your body that youve had enough food doesnt work, so you end up eating more.
Fructose, like all other free sugars, has no enzymes, vitamins or minerals so it must take micronutrients from the body to absorb itself for use. However, eating a small piece of whole fruit on the other hand, which contains natural fructose, is not likely to be a problem for most people because fresh fruits contain the enzymes, vitamins and minerals that are needed for the fructose to get properly digested and absorbed in the body. In an excellent book, The Saccharine Disease, Dr. T. L. Cleave demonstrates that many of the diseases that presently afflict us are relatively modem plagues. In his view, and what many other scientists around the globe believe, is that these diseases of civilization are due largely to the incredible increase in sugar consumption during the past century. Cleave shows that many diseases that are common today were virtually unknown until the introduction of refined sugar. These conditions include constipation, diverticular disease, varicose veins, thrombosis, hemorrhoids, dental caries (cavities), the twin plagues of obesity and diabetes, E.coli infections, and peptic ulcers. He also touches on the subject of colon cancer. Cleave rules out the possibility that these diseases were caused by the refining of wheat, since the wide-scale use of white bread dated from 1800, while the onslaught of these common modem diseases only happened in the early 20th century.
It is hard to comprehend the massive increase in sugar use in our society. In 1815, the average resident of Great Britain consumed about 15 pounds of sugar per year. When Cleave's book was published in England in 1974, this had risen to about 120 pounds per year. In the United States in 1999, each person consumed about 158 pounds of sugar every year! Thats a pound of sugar every two to three days! Since high-fructose corn syrup was developed more than 30 years ago, consumption of the sweetener, which flavors everything from soda pop to ranch dressing, has skyrocketed. Now Americans down more than 160 pounds a year each. Since 1950, soft-drink consumption per capita has quadrupled, from about 11 gallons per year to about 46 gallons in 2003--nearly a gallon a week per person. With all that sugar-eating, it's no wonder people don't have much room for their vegetables. In 2003, during the entire year, the average American consumed a dismal 8.3 pounds of broccoli and just over 25 pounds of dark lettuce (the kinds that are really good for you). How is your body supposed to be healthy when all you eat is nutrient and vitamin deficient foods full of sugar year after year?
The average American consumes about 20 teaspoons (almost one-half cup) of sugar per day, which accounts for 16 percent of our daily intake of calories. For teenagers, sugar consumption accounts for a full 20 percent of calories per day. In 1977 sugar accounted for "only" 11 percent of our caloric intake. This is the catch folks. A lot of the calories today come from sugar, and not the good sugar from fruits and vegetables (which is filled with enzymes, vitamins, and minerals). These empty sugar calories get converted straight to fat, rob your body from its dwindling supply of nutrients, promote an acidic environment, and become food for the bacteria in your body. Its like eating poison in a fancy wrapper. The total amount of food available for each person to eat increased 16 percent from 1,675 pounds in 1970 to 1,950 pounds in 2003. The increase in food available for consumption resulted in a corresponding jump in calories, from 2,234 calories per person per day in 1970 to 2,757 calories in 2003 (after adjusting for plate waste, spoilage, and other food losses). Believe it or not, even toddlers are being primed for a lifetime of sugar addiction. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), major manufacturers "encourage feeding soft drinks to toddlers by licensing their logos to a maker of baby bottles, Munchkin Bottling, Inc. Infants and toddlers are four times likelier to be fed soda pop out of those bottles than out of regular baby bottles." We have not yet spoken about the link between sugar and cancer. However, the affinity of cancerous tissue for sugar (glucose) is well known.
Im going to repeat that quote one more time; The affinity for cancerous tissue for sugar is well known. The fact is that cancer cells feed on sugar. If you create an acidic, oxygen-less environment, fill that environment with sugar and you are pretty much creating a breeding ground for cancer, bacteria, yeast infections (candida) and a body full of disease. This isnt some wacky conspiracy theory; these are cold hard scientific facts and simple biology. It is much simpler to prevent cancer than look for the cure in the form of drugs or surgical procedures. If you dont eliminate the CAUSE of cancer then it can never be cured. It is like trying to use chemicals to destroy bacteria clean the pond and there will be no bacteria. Instead we use chemicals to destroy everything in that pond and hope that the bacteria will be destroyed as well.
Feb 3, 2016 01:16:37 #
Good Post! ...and almost all corn grown in the US is GMO! :cry:
Feb 3, 2016 01:17:23 #
Feb 3, 2016 06:40:30 #
Gitzo wrote:
Uh.....Wanna bet.....???.....http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-diabetes-treatment-your-doctor-wont-tell-you-about/This Is A Thread That No One Can Argue With
Scam.....???
Feb 3, 2016 08:52:15 #
Bazbo
Loc: Lisboa, Portugal
Gitzo wrote:
Does anyone here have a weight problem? Have you... (show quote)
High Fructose corn syrup is poison.
Feb 3, 2016 09:31:29 #
It's been found that a low carb/high fat diet omitting all sugars is the best possible diet one can follow.
Feb 3, 2016 10:20:42 #
dljen wrote:
It's been found that a low carb/high fat diet omitting all sugars is the best possible diet one can follow.
I do my best to eliminate all sugars. I have cut down considerably.
Pretty much eat exactly just like you have described.
I reread in its entirety, excellent article thanks
for the thread. :thumbup:
Feb 3, 2016 10:54:15 #
And don't count on wheat to be a safe alternative:
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2014/12/five-powerful-ways-reduce-blood-sugar/
Key paragraph:
1) Eat no grains
Recall that amylopectin A, the complex carbohydrate of grains, is highly digestible, unlike most of the other components of the seeds of grasses, subject to digestion by the enzyme, amylase, in saliva and stomach. This explains why, ounce for ounce, grains raise blood sugar higher than table sugar. Eat no grains = remove the exceptional glycemic potential of amylopectin A.
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2014/12/five-powerful-ways-reduce-blood-sugar/
Key paragraph:
1) Eat no grains
Recall that amylopectin A, the complex carbohydrate of grains, is highly digestible, unlike most of the other components of the seeds of grasses, subject to digestion by the enzyme, amylase, in saliva and stomach. This explains why, ounce for ounce, grains raise blood sugar higher than table sugar. Eat no grains = remove the exceptional glycemic potential of amylopectin A.
Feb 3, 2016 11:07:32 #
NeilL
Loc: British-born Canadian
Good post, Gitzo! When we eat HFCS, our bodies turn it into tri-glycerides, because we don't burn it all for energy. HFCS is the cheapest sweetener. Honey, molasses, maple syrup, malt and even brown sugar to some extent, have some nutritive value. HFCS has none. Those tri-glycerides become LDLs and arterial plaque.
Feb 3, 2016 11:47:36 #
Good post!
Looking from a slightly different perspective.....
Most of us trace our ancestry to Europe, maybe some to Africa. There's no corn native to either of those places. Our digestive systems didn't evolve like the Native Americans to process corn or corn products. They have been here for 10-12 thousand years or more. We have been here for less than 400. When you add to that the new corn (GMO), it probably gets even worse.
There are other things to look at as well when you are fighting weight. What does your food eat? Cattle used to feed of the grasses of the Plains. Now they are given what exactly? Corn? There have been studies that show that free range beef has some sort of enzyme in it that prevents you from packing it on. Beef that has been fed "feed"....well, that enzyme isn't there. Run down the list...poultry, pork, fish....all those that a farm fed vs wild fed are not quite as good for you.
Support your local growers!
Looking from a slightly different perspective.....
Most of us trace our ancestry to Europe, maybe some to Africa. There's no corn native to either of those places. Our digestive systems didn't evolve like the Native Americans to process corn or corn products. They have been here for 10-12 thousand years or more. We have been here for less than 400. When you add to that the new corn (GMO), it probably gets even worse.
There are other things to look at as well when you are fighting weight. What does your food eat? Cattle used to feed of the grasses of the Plains. Now they are given what exactly? Corn? There have been studies that show that free range beef has some sort of enzyme in it that prevents you from packing it on. Beef that has been fed "feed"....well, that enzyme isn't there. Run down the list...poultry, pork, fish....all those that a farm fed vs wild fed are not quite as good for you.
Support your local growers!
Feb 3, 2016 12:04:44 #
NeilL
Loc: British-born Canadian
hondo812 wrote:
Good post! br br Looking from a slightly differen... (show quote)
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Watch mainstream beer, too. The biggest fermentable is corn starch, and HFCS added to sweeten the finished product. (Barley malt is expensive compared to corn.) Micro-breweries brew a much healthier product.
Feb 3, 2016 12:14:06 #
hondo812 wrote:
Our digestive systems didn't evolve like the Native Americans to process corn or corn products. They have been here for 10-12 thousand years or more. We have been here for less than 400. When you add to that the new corn (GMO), it probably gets even worse.
Our digestive systems didn't evolve like the Native Americans to process corn or corn products. They have been here for 10-12 thousand years or more. We have been here for less than 400. When you add to that the new corn (GMO), it probably gets even worse.
Interesting thought. We have not had as long to adapt as the Native Americans have had. BUT does that give them an advantage in processing GMO corn? Or are they now showing problems too. Anyone know of research on that aspect?
Feb 3, 2016 12:24:53 #
NeilL wrote:
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Watch mainstream beer, too. The biggest fermentable is corn starch, and HFCS added to sweeten the finished product. (Barley malt is expensive compared to corn.) Micro-breweries brew a much healthier product.
:thumbup:
http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Beer-GMO.jpg
Feb 3, 2016 12:26:24 #
davefales wrote:
research is controlled by Monsanto et al...Interesting thought. We have not had as long to adapt as the Native Americans have had. BUT does that give them an advantage in processing GMO corn? Or are they now showing problems too. Anyone know of research on that aspect?
http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Beer-GMO.jpg
Feb 3, 2016 12:32:12 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
Gitzo wrote:
Does anyone here have a weight problem? Have you... (show quote)
First of all I have never seen a thread that no one can argue with. High fructose corn syrup is just corn syrup in which some of the glucose has been converted to fructose. Fructose is twice as sweet as sucrose. HFCS is not. Comparing HFCS to sweeteners other than sucrose (which contains fructose) is meaningless as sucrose is what it is always used in place of. Soft drinks do not use brown sugar or honey, if they don't use artificial sweetener or HFCS they use sucrose. Many experts believe that HFCS is no better and no worse for you than sucrose. We eat way to much sugar in whatever form. Your post would suggest that soft drinks are fine for you as long as they don't contain HFCS. They're not.
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