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NIH Survey Shows Alarming Rates of Diabetes

January 28, 2009 by Caryn Talty Comments4 Comments »

National Institutes of Health (NIH)The results of the new survey are not too surprising for those who follow health news. According to a new survey done by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), nearly 13 % of adults in the U.S. have diabetes, and 40% of them don’t realize it and are walking around undiagnosed. Experts have been claiming disease rates are reaching epidemic proportions. There are many folks not yet diagnosed with diabetes but they are suffering from pre-diabetic symptoms and these raise their risk of developing a pre-diabetic heart attack or stroke.

Such sobering news for Americans. But we are not the only Westernized country battling this disease at epic proportions. According to the Telegraph, Britain’s epidemic is threatening to cause the first decrease in national life expectancy in over 200 years. In fact, this condition has seen a drastic rise over the past few decades in third world countries as well (Diabetes in Adults is Now a Third World Problem). India is one such place where modernization has resulted in a huge increase in diagnoses. So what can we do, if anything, to curb this global trend? …continue reading »

Dangerous Levels of Mercury found in Products Made with High Fructose Corn Syrup

January 27, 2009 by Caryn Talty Comments5 Comments »

Sugars GraphThe Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy released two new studies to the public yesterday that have found mercury in common foods sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.

The report summarizes how this happens: “In making HFCS, caustic soda is used, among other things, to separate corn starch from the corn kernel. For decades, HFCS has been made using mercury-grade caustic soda produced in industrial chlorine (chlor-alkali) plants. The use of mercury cells to produce caustic soda can contaminate caustic soda, and ultimately HFCS, with mercury.”

According to Environmental Health:

Mercury was found in nearly 50% of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup.” Ben Lilliston of The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) reports that in a followup study they detected mercury in “nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second highest labeled ingredient– including products by Quaker, Hershey’s, Kraft, and Smucker.

In his report Lilliston claims that the average American consumes about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS and some kids and teens can be consuming up to nearly 80% more than that. …continue reading »

Corn Sugar 101

May 20, 2008 by Caryn Talty Comments5 Comments »

Learn about the 15 man-made varieties of corn sugar and how they are used in processed foods

Corn SugarCorn sugar is the most consumed sugar  in the U.S. today. The average person eats about 150 lbs of sugar annually, and about half of that, or 6 lbs a month, is high fructose corn syrup (hfcs). But hfcs is only one of 15 different kinds of corn sweeteners used by manufacturers in processed food products in our country. Should consumers be concerned? Perhaps you are wondering if eating all those prepackaged sweetened foods is bad for your health.

I began to study corn sweeteners after we discovered my son’s corn intolerance in 2007. I quickly discovered that snacks are loaded with corn sugar. And drinks? Just forget about them. As a matter of fact, I challenge anyone in America to read the ingredient listings on every snack product in their favorite vending machine. It would not surprise me if every item had some association with a corn sugar, however odd or far removed as it may seem. Heck, even the water bottles are more than likely made from a corn byproduct! I digress. I really want to focus my attention on America’s romance with sugar, corn sugar to be specific, its prevalence in our lives, and a little history about how we became so addicted to the sweet stuff that grows in abundance over our midlands, and now even clutters the landscape surrounding the rocky mountain region. …continue reading »

Soda Study links High Fructose Corn Syrup to Diabetes

October 1, 2007 by Caryn Talty Comments1 Comment »

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A recent study preformed by Chi-Tang Ho, P.h.D., at Rutgers University found extremely high levels of reactive carbonyls in 11 different carbonated soft drinks made with high fructose corn syrup. He estimates that one can of your favorite soft drink could contain five times the amount of reactive carbonyls than what would be typically found in the blood of an adult with diabetes, blood that would contain elevated levels of reactive carbonyls as a complication of the disease.

Unbound reactive carbonyls are dangerous as they are thought to cause tissue damage, unlike bound and chemically stable fructose and glucose components found in refined sugar. Published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the study claims that High Fructose Corn Syrup laden soft drinks, when consumed in high doses, leads to the development of diabetes. …continue reading »

Bad for our Health? Get High Fructose Corn Syrup and Refined Sugar Facts

July 17, 2007 by Caryn Talty Comments5 Comments »
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sxc.hu | author: Mark Webb

Corn. It is everywhere these days, and lately it’s been getting some heat. After reading a report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claiming there’s no health difference between using high fructose corn syrup and refined sugar in beverages, I got suspicious. The AJCN report claims both high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and refined sugar cause the same feeling of fullness and hunger in people surveyed.  Since I already know quite a bit about corn sugar I was immediately suspicious of their claim. I decided to launch my own investigation. Regular readers know how much I despise corn, especially since the kind Americans eat these days is mass produced from genetically modified corn crops.  Didn’t have to dig too deep to learn who was behind the AJCN report.  And it didn’t surprise me in the least bit.  …continue reading »

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