Looking good can start with what you put in your mouth!
June 7, 2010 by JoJami Tyler and Deborah Boland - The Glam Gals
Have you heard about that movie, Food, Inc? It is all about some of the haunting facts on how we “grow” our food that could be making us grow as well!
If you have gained weight and not been able to lose it, in the past 10 years, it could be a direct result of getting fattened up just like the poor cows and chicken because so much additional soy and corn products are used in their food!
Rediscovering the art of good eating just might have some of the answers you have been looking for!
That is just one topic that we are discussing at the Blogging Boomer Carnival being hosted this week by Wesley Hein from Life Two!
A SWEET PROBLEM: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain
In the 40 years since the introduction of high-fructose corn syrup as a cost-effective sweetener in the American diet, rates of obesity in the U.S. have skyrocketed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 1970, around 15 percent of the U.S. population met the definition for obesity; today, roughly one-third of the American adults are considered obese, the CDC reported. High-fructose corn syrup is found in a wide range of foods and beverages, including fruit juice, soda, cereal, bread, yogurt, ketchup and mayonnaise. On average, Americans consume 60 pounds of the sweetener per person every year.
A Princeton University research team has 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.
In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, 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. The researchers say the work sheds light on the factors contributing to obesity trends in the United States.
“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,” said Princeton psychology professor who specializes in the neuroscience of appetite, weight and sugar addiction. “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.”
For personal, moral, ethical, and environmental reasons I’ve been a vegetarian for 20 years, a vegan for the past 3. Besides knowing I am not supporting the wretched lives factory farmed animals must endure, benefits include just plain feeling better after cutting out the meat which is so pumped up with hormones. ( Ever find it curious that breast cancer is still on the rise, even with all the pink ribbon research? Hormone laden beef, poultry, dairy are the culprits. ) On a vegan plan no problem managing weight, clearer skin and eyes. Something else that is causing the population to balloon in size: High Fructose Corn Syrup. When it comes to high-fructose corn syrup, I scour labels. It makes me feel terrible when I eat it, so I avoid it like the plague. All calories are not equal. On average, out of 120 calories of HFCS, the body will convert 40 calories to fat. But out of 120 calories of regular sugar, the body will convert only 1 calorie to fat. Do the math … 40 times as fattening.
Many do not realize that stubborn ” muffin top” is the result of High Fructose corn syriup. You’ll see a huge difference if you remove it from your diet.
Every cell in the body can use ordinary sugar for energy, while only the liver can metabolize High Fructose Corn Syrup. That’s a huge difference. It means that regular sugar is food, but HFCS is a drug. HFCS is a laboratory concoction that is used by factory-food makers ONLY because it is cheap. It helps the bottom line of the food maker, but harms the consumer. the good news is companies are finally starting to make some changes !
HUNT’S KETCHUP REMOVING HIGH- FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/hunts-ketchup-high-fructo_n_578593.html
I love the power of consumers when we get together and fight !!! We just don’t do it enough. Yea! For Hunt’s without HFCS! Here’s hoping HFCS is taken out of every processed food !
Gatorade and Wheat Thins have also replaced HFCS with sugar.
“Industry scientists say [HFCS] is no more fattening than sugar.”
They would say that. They’re paid to say that. What they don’t tell you is that HFCS can only be metabolized by the liver. It is a drug, not a food. Regular sugar can be used by every cell in the body, unlike HFCS, which is metabolic poison.
Corn syrup is popular with manufacturers partly because it is cheaper than sugar.
HFCS has a higher ratio of fructose to glucose. Fructose is what is really terrible for the body. Also, the fructose in HFCS is not bound to the glucose molecule like it is in sugar, which means that the fructose in HFCS more easily makes its way through your liver where it wrecks havoc on your body.
it’s so easy to eat what is put in front of us…conscious eating takes work but is worth the effort. when we stop and do a bit of research, eating meat that has been factory fed and killed would make us all vomit up our meal. eat less meat and only meat that has been humanely raised and butchered is the only option for fabulous women over fourty…