Who's Your "Sugar" Daddy?
By Page Remick

Who's your "Sugar" daddy?

As we stroll the aisles of our supermarket, we can't help notice the all the beautiful bright packaging that boasts “ Natural” ingredients. Natural is good, organic is best, yet, a closer look at the label shows the un-natural, shameful truth. It's another sad note on the food processing game, but 'profit' is the true “sugar daddy” of the industry.

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) now turns up in so many of our sweet- laden foods that it is even in beer, bacon, protein bars, yogurt and sandwich meats. As we shopped, we looked for a healthy fruit juice. Surprise! The first ingredient on many of the fruit juices we shopped was high fructose corn syrup.

Cheap and Sweet to Eat

HFCS is a manufactured ingredient from corn which may or may not be from genetically modified crops. It is a concentrated sugar that is also known as corn syrup, dextrose, fructose and glucose. HFCS is a very inexpensive sweetener from a production point of view. HFCS blends well in most foods and it's very inexpensive and sweet. From the manufactures point of view it's a financial dream, complete with a long shelf life.

It's important to note that real, unprocessed fruit juice contains fiber which slows the body's metabolism of sugars. But add in HFCS and all the sugar is absorbed rapidly, adding to see-saw energy and an appalling increase in diabetes and insulin resistance in this country.. An interesting note about sugars is that nearly 25% of the daily caloric intake from sugar is from high fructose corn syrup. Glucose, found in real fruit juice is metabolized in every cell in the body but all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of test animals fed large amounts of fructose develop fatty deposits and cirrhosis, similar to problems that develop in the livers of alcoholics. Pure fructose contains no enzymes, vitamins or minerals and robs the body of its micronutrients. How sweet is that?

Do things really go better?

HFCS is the main sweetener used in a vast array of products including soft drinks. Teen boys average at least three can of soft drinks a day while a smaller percentage, opts for upwards of seven cans daily. Teenage girls have a lower consumption at about two cans a day. In table sugar terms, each can contains 6 Tablespoons of sugar!

Fructose converts into fat more than other sugars and one recent study claims a link between obesity and HFCS from soft drinks consumed.

An analysis of a 20-ounce cola drink shows it contains no fat or protein and nearly 27 grams of carbohydrates: normally delivered in high fructose corn syrup. "The bodies of the children I see today are mush," observed a concerned chiropractor recently. The culprit is the modern diet, high in fructose and low in copper-containing foods, resulting in inadequate formation of elastin and collagen: the sinews that hold the body together.

Sweet for the food manufacturers because its cheap and makes a profit, it's causing multiple diseases and damage to our bodies. That doesn't sound sweet at all.

Page Remick is lead reviewer for Pure Zing, the Internet's only natural and organic products review site. Remick and the PZ team search for unique and artisanal products that are not mass-produced and found on every grocery store or health food store shelf in the country.

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