Question of the Day, Oct 20

this is a great post, and one of the more relevant questions you have posted, since it has a very real effect on all our health. I avoid this stuff like the plague. The ONLY time I eat it is when I am eating out and I put ketchup of BBQ sauce on something I am eating. I do drink an occasional energy drink that has it, though. I rarely drink soda, but every now and then ill go down the ethnic food aisle and get a bottle or two of coke that say ‘hecho en mexico’ since they are made with real sugar. Most of the condiments I buy are sweetened with organic agave nectar, and it actually tastes a lot better. “organicville’ makes a wholeline of very good tasting condiments that don’t have the stuff in it. Even the non-organic stuff I buy, I make sure it isn’t made with HFCS. Well worth the extra cost.

A good follow up post of this would be the reason everyone uses HFCS- sugar tariffs. Congress actively puts the interests of a few wealthy cane growing families ahead of the health of us all every single time they allow this to pass.

The other poison that is almost all present in our food is MSG in all its disquiesd forms.

Combine the two and you have real problems even if not officially recognized as such.

And trying to eat a diet other than the all prepared at home diets of the 1940’s (when people didn’t need two jobs to support a family and had time to prepare them) is almost impossible.

Best to hope for is to minimize the consumption of them. Minimal consumption probably isn’t harmful (if it is actually minimal).

I t hink it’s a bunch of BS

@Mike in PA, it makes you wonder, doesn’t it? My dad doesn’t want to hear it either. He is in decent shape for an almost 60 year old, really not over weight, probably because he plays 80-90 rounds of golf a year, but I do wish he would eat better. I think a lot of the reason so many people ignore the warning about the food we eat is because there are so many pills out there that will mask the effects of eating shitty food. Die-a-beetus? no problem, it gets easier and easier to manage. If you get high blood pressure or high cholesterol, they hand you more pills, raher than telling you to get out and exercise more(which will literally improve(if not cure) an overwhelming majority of the most common problems that plague the american land whale as a species.

I think its not JUST HFCS thatis making us so unhealthy, as there is much more bad for you in the processed foor we eat than HFCS. And, again, pills to cover up the inevitable health problems that come from being a lazy fat ass. Another funny thing about being a lazy fatass- you are much more likely to be depressed. Which, surprise surprise, there are pills for that too, so you don’t have to get off your duff to feel good. And, depression is yet another common thing to plague the american land whale that can often be cured with exercise. You will lose weight, feel better about yourself, get healthier, and have knarly veins in your arms and look fuckin jacked. its a win win…

Ya’ know ………

It might be interesting to track obesity rates per country in relation to per capita HFCS consumption per country.

The increasing obesity problem seems to have started after the introduction and widespread use of HFCS.

I’ve got no idea where to find the information or exactly how to meaningfully correlate it in a result one way or the other.

When our little group of families in Oklahoma began meeting a few years back, one of the team members was a nurse/nutritionist and gave us all an excellent presentation on processed foods and the danges of HFCS (and, yes, MSG). She explained the chemistry that caused the extra molecule to be metabolized differently, forcing the liver into overwork that it should not have to perform for simple digestion. She showed the types of fat accumulation around the ribcage typical of those women who tended to have diets high in HFCS sweetened foods.

That meeting started my research into natural ways to cook and sweeten foods. I started growing Stevia to see if it was indeed a natural herbal sweetener. It is and except for everything being green that you put the dried leaves into, it is an excellent alternative to sugar. Good honey is excellent, IF you know where your bees have been pollinating (pun intended.) Mostly, learning to use spices and herbs to maximize flavor is your best way to really enjoy your food and get the most nutrition from it. The bulk around my ribcage isn’t completely gone, but it is melting away the right way after learning what I learned from her.

As for MSG? You can’t completely avoid it, but simply watching for it makes sense. Using safe salts like Himalayan Crystal Salt and/or North Sea Salt instead of chemically processed salt is helpful. Use fermented soy (MISO) instead of processed soy sauce and to thicken your soups, use a flour paste instead of corn starch.

Now, having said that, do I still occasionally eat something with HFCS in it? RARELY. After two years of almost cleaning my system of it, it gives me a terrible headache. I’d rather have a hangover, so if I’m going to have a headache, I’d rather have one for a good reason.

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HCFS and artificial sweeteners are two of the our biggest health threats, especially in combination with the stripping of nutrients/micronutrients from our foods and constant toxic bombardment with vaccinations and pharmaceuticals.

Once I cut my “only one a day” soda pop habit, and detoxed my body, my arthritis, along with many other issues, went away.

If I drink ONE American soda, it flares back up and my joints become painful, swollen and unbearable. Within an hour.

Even when I drink Mexican coke, less than one a month, the carbonation/phosphorus and too much sugar (good ole cane sugar) will cause tenderness. But nothing like one HCFS pop.

The main problem is that thanks to the USDA/FDA labeling laws, you can be consuming lots of these toxins and not any know it. If a toxin is less than 1% of total volume, it does not have to be listed. Neither do any of the ingredients that are called “flavorings” as it has been ruled that those are corporate, proprietary and do not have to be disclosed.

Add to this the mandates that we avoid the sun, thus are wholly deficient in Vitamin D – which repairs many of these toxin issues, and that even our produce is grown on ground without micronutrients and drenched in toxins, and we haven’t a chance.

Those that did not start their lives drenched in the neverending chemical experiment we call modern health are NOT seeing the devastating effects of this toxicity to the same extent as those that are being bombarded 24/7, from before birth until our (painful, slow and expensive) deaths.

What amuses me more than anything is that people that KNOW the government is corrupted and lying to us about national security, finances, insurance, etc., etc., somehow think that when it comes to the health recommendations they are clean.

NOTHING could be further from the truth. Believe what they tell you at the detriment of your own life, and your offsprings too.

I don’t know why God led me to break free of the chains of our slavery and find the truth of natural health and substances, but he did. I praise him, daily, for that.

I watch my sister deteriorate into never-ending pain, illness and depression/mania and can SEE how I’ve been “saved.”

If they are lying to us about unemployment and war, to think they are telling the truth about our health – even as we SEE the cancer and obesity all around us, is Stockholm Syndrome at its best.

Many have been trying to wake us up. I say, if you continue to believe they give two shits about your true health, then you deserve every illness, death medicine and dollar it is going to cost you. And it will.