Fwd: High fructose corn syrup

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My suggestion is if when you read the label on a product if you do not recognize

any ingredient as a " food " or especially if an ingredient is unpronouncable or a

mystery ingredient pass on the product. It may look like food, it may smell like

food and it may even taste like food, but chances are that it isn't real food,

but an imitative concoction made out of food parts to look, smell and tatse like

food.

 

A good and easier to understand example would be fruit juices. The grocery

aosles are filled with " fruit juices " but most of them are not real juices

although they may fool your eyes, nose, and taste. They are made out of food

parts, something to make them sweet, high fructose corn syrup (Which fruit juice

has corn syrup naturally?????) and other ingredients.

 

With a lot of processed packaged industrial food it is much worse. Read the box

lablels. They have combined a buch of cheap waste ingredients together to make a

fake food. Because it is edible they can sell it as food, but it has even way

less food value than the poor nutrient depleted stuff that is available as whole

foods in our markets. Those whole market foods look good though don't they. Well

they have been grown to look good so they don't bruise, etc. but they are not

grown for there nutritional value. Heck that doesn't count, no one can SEE the

ntritional value so it doesn't count for anything.

 

Frank

 

 

" Tom "

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:48:45 -0000

High fructose corn syrup

 

As I recall, this stuff is highly

subsidized by the government also...

 

A Hidden Food Ingredient Makes Us Fat

Quick! Go get your favorite packaged food. Look at the label. Does it

have an ingredient called high fructose corn syrup? If so, beware. It

could be making you fat--and you don't even know it. Food

manufacturers love to use high fructose corn syrup because it's cheap

and sweet. NBC's " Today " show contributor Phil Lempert reports that

researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that

fructose in high levels elevates dangerous triglycerides by as much

as 32 percent and makes the body's fat burning and storage system

sluggish, which causes weight gain.

 

High fructose corn syrup is not a natural product. Called HFCS for

short, it is processed from hydrolyzed corn starch and contains:

--14 percent fructose

--43 percent dextrose

--31 percent disaccharides

--12 percent other products

HCFS first became all the rage in the early 1970s when soft drink

manufacturers discovered it. " Today " reports that at the time it was

thought to be a revolutionary advance in food science. Over the past

15 years, our consumption of HCFS has increased a belt-busting 250

percent. By some estimates, we get as much as 9 percent of our daily

calories from fructose.

 

 

What foods are likely to contain high fructose corn syrup? Soft

drinks, juice, candy, baked goods, cookies, syrup, yogurt, soup,

ketchup, breakfast cereal, and pasta sauces.

What can you do? " Today " advises the following:

--Read labels to find out how much high fructose corn syrup is in the

foods you eat. There is less concern if it contains less than 3 grams.

--Write to the food companies and ask them to stop using it as an

ingredient.

 

Tom

Dallas TX

 

 

 

 

 

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