Consumption of the Man-Made Poison, High Fructose Corn Syrup.........

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Consumption of the Man-Made Poison, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Is

Linked to Major Health Problems

By: Frank Mangano

 

Copyright 2006 Frank Mangano

 

The numbers are in and you may not like them.

 

It's reported that Corn Products International, a company in the

business of making man-made additives like high-fructose corn syrup,

recorded a 14 percent profit spike in its second quarter, increasing

sales from $596 million a year ago to $645 million.

 

If you're a shareholder, congratulations: today is your day. But for

the rest of us who are concerned about our health over our wealth,

the news is worrisome.

 

High-fructose corn syrup, an added ingredient in many of our everyday

foods like soda pop, candy, sweetened cereals, jams and several baked

goods, is made from a mixture of sucrose and fructose. It is used by

food and drink manufacturers for several reasons: consumers like its

taste as it's sweeter than refined sugar, its syrupy content makes it

easier to blend into soft drinks than refined sugar (according to the

National Soft Drink Administration) and it's very inexpensive to

produce. So inexpensive, in fact, that the NSDA saved hundreds of

millions of dollars by switching to high fructose corn syrup in the

1980s, according to the NSDA's vice president who was interviewed by

the Washington Post.

 

This is all well and good for their economic bottom line, but studies

have shown that the high amount of fructose in corn syrup is not

properly broken down when it enters the blood stream. Unlike glucose,

which stimulates the secretion of insulin that then transfers sugars

to the body's cells, fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion.

Furthermore, while glucose produces leptin, a hormone that helps

regulate appetite and breakdown of fat storage, fructose does not

produce leptin either. Thus, consuming high amounts of fructose found

in corn syrup contribute to weight storage and overindulgence.

 

The proof—for lack of a better term—is in the pudding. Across the

country, schools are removing vending machines from their hallways

and lobby areas because of the growing number of studies that links

the consumption of high fructose corn syrup to obesity. And with

obesity, comes hordes of other problems, most notably diabetes.

 

According to James Howenstein, author of the book " A Physician's

Guide to Natural Health Products that Work, " 3 out of 100,000 people

had diabetes in the 1880s. Today, estimates indicate that 10 percent

of the nation—300,000 people—have some form of diabetes. And the U.S.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention abets these statistics by

pointing out that 3 out of 50 Americans have Type II Diabetes, a 33

percent rise in the past decade.

 

" Type II Diabetes is strongly associated with a lack of exercise and

a poor diet, " said " Blended Medicine " author Michael Castleman in an

interview with Newstarget.com. He went on to say that the

particularly harmful diets are the ones high in fat and sugar and low

in fiber.

 

It's no wonder that there are so many cases of Type II Diabetes when

you read the estimates by the Life Extension Foundation, who estimate

that the average American eats 150 pounds of sugar per year. Or how

about the study done by Tufts University Health and Nutrition Center

who found that Americans spent $21 billion on candy alone in 2001

(more than the total value of goods and services produced in 2001 by

Lithuania, Costa Rica and Mozambique—combined).

 

The links between high fructose corn syrup don't stop with diabetes

and obesity. It's also linked to immune system malfunction, high

blood cholesterol levels and osteoporosis. This is because high

fructose corn syrup, according to " Prescription Alternative " authors

Earl Mindell and Virginia Hopkins, depletes the chromium levels that

assist insulin in the passing of glucose from the blood stream to the

cells.

 

The facts don't lie. It's important to know how high fructose corn

syrup affects our bodies now rather than later and then act

accordingly by reducing or eliminating them from our diet—preferably

before we see another rise in Corn Products International's profit

margin.

 

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Frank Mangano is a natural health expert and best selling author who

teaches you how to dramatically improve your health naturally,

without expensive and potentially dangerous prescription drugs. To

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