High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Weight Gain
According to Dr.
Joseph Mercola, more than 50% of today's American population consumes over half a pound of sugar every day.
That's about 180 lbs of sugar ingested in a year! Of course it's not taken by the spoonful, but it's slipped into prepared foods as a flavor additive.
Canned soups, condiments, soft drinks, you name it and it you can bet it has added sugar.
Even baby formula has sugar in it! No wonder kids have such an addiction to sugary foods.
Sugars There are many kinds of sugars, and knowing the difference between them isn't particularly critical to losing weight.
What you must know, however, is the sugars you get from packaged and processed foods differs greatly from the sugars you get naturally from fruits and vegetables.
Sweeteners take many forms and names, such as Sucrose (white sugar), Dextrose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucralose (Splenda), and many others.
Not all of these sweeteners are chemically sugar, and some of them have no place in your diet at all.
It pays to know the difference between an artificial sweetener and a real sugar, but for the purpose of this article we're only going to discuss one of them: High Fructose Corn Syrup.
What is High Fructose Corn Syrup? High Fructose Corn Syrup, or HFCS for short is made up of two carbohydrates: fructose and glucose.
Fructose is the sweetest simple sugar of them all, and is naturally found in fruits, vegetables, and honey.
Glucose is another simple sugar crucial in human metabolism, and can be found in our bloodstream where it's referred to as blood sugar.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is comprised of 55% fructose, and 45% glucose.
If you read food labels, you've become aware that HFCS is in a lot of your foods.
It's prevalent in soda, snacks, and all kinds of canned and jarred foods that aren't immediately obvious to the average consumer.
Fructose by itself actually disables your body's ability to control your appetite and will allow you to eat far more than is necessary.
Eating HFCS is worse than eating fat itself! Focusing on Natural Foods Fructose does exist in fruits, and even some vegetables.
However, these natural plant foods also contain several vitamins and minerals that effectively disable the ill effects of the fructose they contain.
When you're eating processed and prepared foods, you're often getting the desired taste but completely missing the nutritional value of your food.
To truly take control of your weight, you must become aware of the foods that damage your body, and the foods that nourish and heal you.
More often than not, if you suspect a food is unhealthy for you, you're right.
Inspect your labels, or better yet, try eating foods that don't come packaged and processed for a couple of weeks and note the difference in your weight and overall health.
Joseph Mercola, more than 50% of today's American population consumes over half a pound of sugar every day.
That's about 180 lbs of sugar ingested in a year! Of course it's not taken by the spoonful, but it's slipped into prepared foods as a flavor additive.
Canned soups, condiments, soft drinks, you name it and it you can bet it has added sugar.
Even baby formula has sugar in it! No wonder kids have such an addiction to sugary foods.
Sugars There are many kinds of sugars, and knowing the difference between them isn't particularly critical to losing weight.
What you must know, however, is the sugars you get from packaged and processed foods differs greatly from the sugars you get naturally from fruits and vegetables.
Sweeteners take many forms and names, such as Sucrose (white sugar), Dextrose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucralose (Splenda), and many others.
Not all of these sweeteners are chemically sugar, and some of them have no place in your diet at all.
It pays to know the difference between an artificial sweetener and a real sugar, but for the purpose of this article we're only going to discuss one of them: High Fructose Corn Syrup.
What is High Fructose Corn Syrup? High Fructose Corn Syrup, or HFCS for short is made up of two carbohydrates: fructose and glucose.
Fructose is the sweetest simple sugar of them all, and is naturally found in fruits, vegetables, and honey.
Glucose is another simple sugar crucial in human metabolism, and can be found in our bloodstream where it's referred to as blood sugar.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is comprised of 55% fructose, and 45% glucose.
If you read food labels, you've become aware that HFCS is in a lot of your foods.
It's prevalent in soda, snacks, and all kinds of canned and jarred foods that aren't immediately obvious to the average consumer.
Fructose by itself actually disables your body's ability to control your appetite and will allow you to eat far more than is necessary.
Eating HFCS is worse than eating fat itself! Focusing on Natural Foods Fructose does exist in fruits, and even some vegetables.
However, these natural plant foods also contain several vitamins and minerals that effectively disable the ill effects of the fructose they contain.
When you're eating processed and prepared foods, you're often getting the desired taste but completely missing the nutritional value of your food.
To truly take control of your weight, you must become aware of the foods that damage your body, and the foods that nourish and heal you.
More often than not, if you suspect a food is unhealthy for you, you're right.
Inspect your labels, or better yet, try eating foods that don't come packaged and processed for a couple of weeks and note the difference in your weight and overall health.
