Day 6 HFCS

It has been almost a year and a half now since we purged our cabinets of High Fructose Corn Syrup (FHCS).
I read an article describing the different fructose and sucrose pathway. Sucrose uses the insulin pathway and fruchtose through the liver. Fruchtose is converted in the liver to triglycerides. In turn the triglycerides the are incorporated into very-low density lipoproteins (V-LDL) (the very bad kind of cholesterol). Fructose comes in 3 different concentrations HFCS 90 has 90% fructose and the other 2 HFCS contain approximately half fructose and half sucrose. But studies show the greatest absorption occurs when fructose and sucrose are administered in the same quantities.

Fujisawa T, Riby J, Kretchmer N.    Intestinal absorption of fructose in the rat Gastroenterology. 1991 Aug;101(2):360-7.

Fructose is IN EVERYTHING! not only inexpensive but it is relatively almost twice as sweet as sucrose

Check you cupboards!
We found over 50% of all our pantry contained HFCS.
How much is in your cabinets?

Soft drinks, bread, spaghetti sauce, salad dressing, cold cuts, .........
We had 5 garbage bags full.

I am usually a very frugal person and considered giving all the products to the food bank - BUT would you give poison to the poor?

No - I threw the products in the garbage.

It made a statement for me. DO NOT BUY any more of these products.

I watch all the labels now, and some HFSC still sneaks in, but I purge it as soon as they are uncovered.

I am determined to be radiant, healthy and full of energy.



Yuck- full of mercury as well??

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.
"Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply," the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.

In the first study, published in current issue of Environmental Health, researchers found detectable levels of mercury in nine of 20 samples of commercial HFCS.






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