Sweet Lies: How the Food Industry is Brainwashing the Public

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October 17 2008

 

Sweet Lies: How the Food Industry is Brainwashing the Public

by Christine H. Farlow, D.C.

 

 

(NaturalNews) False and misleading nutrition information is being

sold to the unsuspecting public through convincing TV, radio,

magazine and newspaper ads and brilliantly designed marketing

campaigns.

 

Chemical concoctions are being advertised as the latest and greatest

new " healthy " foods. Synthetic food additives are being promoted as

safe and " made from food. " Because consumers are becoming more

conscious of healthier choices, manufacturers are telling you that

these fake foods with their artificial ingredients are good for you.

 

Stop and think. Don't be fooled. Consider where your health and

nutrition information is coming from. When you get your nutrition

information from the media, you're getting it from the food industry

and companies that stand to benefit from you purchasing their

products.

 

If you believe what you read from food industry ads, especially for

processed foods, and from organizations that receive money from the

food industry, you may be on your way to cancer, heart disease,

diabetes or obesity ... if you're not already there.

 

Take for instance, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The food industry

is advertising how HFCS is made from corn, doesn't have artificial

ingredients, has the same calories as sugar and is fine when used in

moderation. Take a look at what they have to say here:

 

Ad for HFCS

 

Another ad for HFCS

 

Beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing!

 

The food industry is feeding you propaganda. They're brainwashing you

into believing that highly processed, high fructose corn syrup is

just like sugar, is okay to eat and is not going to adversely affect

your health.

 

Here's a quote from The Corn Refiners Association website,

HFCSfacts.com:

 

" Research confirms that high fructose corn syrup is safe and no

different from other common sweeteners like table sugar and honey.

All three sweeteners are nutritionally the same "

 

Research done by the USDA has found otherwise.

 

The refined white substance we know as sugar is sucrose. It's

composed of glucose and fructose.

 

In the USDA study, when rats were fed sugar, i.e. sucrose, they

developed numerous health conditions. If the rats were nutritionally

deficient, they suffered greater health problems than those that were

not nutritionally deficient. To determine if the adverse effects were

from the glucose or the fructose, the study was repeated with two

groups of rats. One group received glucose and the other fructose in

high doses. The group that received the fructose suffered major

health issues, while the group receiving the glucose did not.

 

It's important to note that nutritional deficiencies are very common

in people due to the highly processed foods that are consumed.

 

HFCS is not the same as the fructose in fruit. It contains no

nutrients and does not nourish the body. HFCS does cause the body to

lose minerals, thus causing nutritional deficiencies. In addition,

it's associated with various adverse health conditions.

 

Honey, on the other hand, especially raw honey, contains vitamins,

minerals, antioxidants and antimicrobial properties. Honey is sweeter

than sugar, so you can use less. It's also metabolized differently

than sugar and HFCS. Raw honey has healing properties. That cannot be

said of sugar or HFCS.

 

High fructose corn syrup may be derived from corn, but that doesn't

make it fine in moderation, nor the least bit healthy.

 

This synthetic food additive is made by subjecting corn starch to a

complex chemical process with genetically engineered enzymes. The

corn used is most likely genetically engineered as well. The

resulting HFCS is far from natural and does not act like sugar in

your body.

 

Corn grown for use in the processed foods industry, made into food

additives like HFCS, is not the same fresh sweet corn you can buy in

the grocery store. There's an oversupply of the corn used in HFCS.

The corn industry is subsidized with your tax dollars to grow even

more so that it's really cheap for manufacturers to buy at less than

what it costs the farmer to grow and harvest.

 

Cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity are at an all time high.

In fact, type 2 diabetes also known as " adult-onset diabetes " is now

being found even in children. Obesity has skyrocketed in this country

since the introduction of HFCS. All these diseases have been

increasing since the addition of HFCS into processed foods. It's in

virtually all processed foods, from beverages, to cereals, to snacks,

to canned and bottled foods.

 

If you're eating these kinds of foods, you're probably getting an

overdose of HFCS and headed down the road to a life of disease.

 

As the food in this country has become more and more processed, with

more and more toxic food additives, genetically engineered and

irradiated ingredients, the health of the population has been

deteriorating.

 

To get true information about what's healthy for you to eat and

what's not, make sure you get it from a reputable source, and not

from the food industry or any of the many non-profit and pseudo

health-related organizations that receive financial support from the

food and drug industries.

 

References:

The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

By Linda Joyce Forristal, CCP, MTA

http://www.westonaprice.org/motherlinda...

 

The Double Danger of High Fructose Corn Syrup

By Bill Sanda, BS, MBA

http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/...

 

Cornfed America: Politics, Economics and Your Health

http://www.advancedhealthinstitute.com/...

 

HFCSfacts.com

http://hfcsfacts.com/

 

 

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About the author

Dr. Christine H. Farlow, D.C. is " The Ingredients Investigator. " She

has been researching ingredient safety since 1991. She is the author

of three books, including Food Additives: A Shopper's Guide To What's

Safe & What's Not and Dying To Look Good. To learn more about

ingredient safety in your food and skin care products, visit

www.FoodAdditivesBook.com and www.DyingToLookGood.com.

 

 

 

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