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High Fructose Corn Syrup could be named "Corn Sugar"

A rose by any other name is still a rose.  High fructose corn syrup by any other name is still high fructose corn syrup and still a very unhealthy product.

High fructose corn syrup has caused more diabetes and obesity in both children and adults than any other product.

Why the name change?  So the powers to be can deflect the negative press this particular sweetener has received over the years.  It is blatant deception!

By calling it Corn Sugar, they are betting you will think of it as regular sugar or beet sugar and the bad press will be forgotten.

Why is this so important to you? If you have spent any time taking a look at food labels you almost certainly have noticed one particular ingredient listed which appears almost universally in bakery, packaged foods, and soft drinks, and that ingredient is high fructose corn syrup.

High-fructose corn syrup came into wide-spread use in the 1970s, and was given that name to differentiate it from common glucose-containing corn syrup, as outlined by a study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

High-fructose corn syrup is manufactured by high temperature chemical processing and utilizing enzymes in order to change the glucose in the corn starch into fructose.

Food, bakery, and soft drink manufacturers buy high fructose corn syrup because it is cheaper than sugar and easier to handle and are not concerned with the negative effective effects this sweetener has on your health.

Unlike fructose from natural sources such as fruit which provide the body with energy, the fructose from high fructose corn syrup does not supply energy as the body is unable to properly metabolize this unnatural form of fructose causing undesirable health effects on the body.

Additionally, the corn used in this process is usually from genetically modified seeds and has been sprayed with pesticides. Read the rest of this entry »

Agave plant used to make Agave Syrup

Warning!  You’re Being Had!

It never ends. You know how bad High Fructose Corn Syrup is and how we have been blindsided by clever marketing into thinking HFCS is a healthy sweetener.

Well once again we are being blindsided by the clever marketing of a new so called “natural” sweetener implying it is a safe substitute for High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Science has proven conclusively that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a major cause of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease because of its 56% high fructose content.

This new so called “natural” sweetener is from the agave plant.  Ferment it and you have Mexico’s favorite alcoholic beverage — tequila.

Blue agave, agave “syrup”, or agave “nectar”, is nothing more than a laboratory generated super-condensed fructose syrup devoid of all nutrient value and offering metabolic misfortune.

Agave syrup is much worse than the High Fructose Corn Syrup it’s replacing.

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