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Sweet Lies: How the Food Industry is Brainwashing the Public 10-17-08
by: Christine H. Farlow, D.C.
False and misleading nutrition information is being sold to the unsuspecting
public through convincing TV, radio, magazine and newspaper ads and brilliantly
designed marketing campaigns.
Chemical concoctions are being advertised as the latest and greatest new
"healthy" foods. Synthetic food additives are being promoted as safe and "made
from food." Because consumers are becoming more conscious of healthier choices,
manufacturers are telling you that these fake foods with their artificial
ingredients are good for you.
Stop and think. Don't be fooled. Consider where your health and nutrition
information is coming from. When you get your nutrition information from the
media, you're getting it from the food industry and companies that stand to
benefit from you purchasing their products.
If you believe what you read from food industry ads, especially for processed
foods, and from organizations that receive money from the food industry, you may
be on your way to cancer, heart disease, diabetes or obesity ... if you're not
already there.
Take for instance, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The food industry is
advertising how HFCS is made from corn, doesn't have artificial ingredients, has
the same calories as sugar and is fine when used in moderation. Take a look at
what they have to say here:
Ad for HFCS
Another ad for HFCS
Beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing!
The food industry is feeding you propaganda. They're brainwashing you into
believing that highly processed, high fructose corn syrup is just like sugar, is
okay to eat and is not going to adversely affect your health.
Here's a quote from The Corn Refiners Association website, HFCSfacts.com:
"Research confirms that high fructose corn syrup is safe and no different from
other common sweeteners like table sugar and honey. All three sweeteners are
nutritionally the same"
Research done by the USDA has found otherwise.
The refined white substance we know as sugar is sucrose. It's composed of
glucose and fructose.
In the USDA study, when rats were fed sugar, i.e. sucrose, they developed
numerous health conditions. If the rats were nutritionally deficient, they
suffered greater health problems than those that were not nutritionally
deficient. To determine if the adverse effects were from the glucose or the
fructose, the study was repeated with two groups of rats. One group received
glucose and the other fructose in high doses. The group that received the
fructose suffered major health issues, while the group receiving the glucose did
not.
It's important to note that nutritional deficiencies are very common in people
due to the highly processed foods that are consumed.
HFCS is not the same as the fructose in fruit. It contains no nutrients and does
not nourish the body. HFCS does cause the body to lose minerals, thus causing
nutritional deficiencies. In addition, it's associated with various adverse
health conditions.
Honey, on the other hand, especially raw honey, contains vitamins, minerals,
antioxidants and antimicrobial properties. Honey is sweeter than sugar, so you
can use less. It's also metabolized differently than sugar and HFCS. Raw honey
has healing properties. That cannot be said of sugar or HFCS.
High fructose corn syrup may be derived from corn, but that doesn't make it fine
in moderation, nor the least bit healthy.
This synthetic food additive is made by subjecting corn starch to a complex
chemical process with genetically engineered enzymes. The corn used is most
likely genetically engineered as well. The resulting HFCS is far from natural
and does not act like sugar in your body.
Corn grown for use in the processed foods industry, made into food additives
like HFCS, is not the same fresh sweet corn you can buy in the grocery store.
There's an oversupply of the corn used in HFCS. The corn industry is subsidized
with your tax dollars to grow even more so that it's really cheap for
manufacturers to buy at less than what it costs the farmer to grow and harvest.
Cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity are at an all time high. In fact,
type 2 diabetes also known as "adult-onset diabetes" is now being found even in
children. Obesity has skyrocketed in this country since the introduction of HFCS.
All these diseases have been increasing since the addition of HFCS into
processed foods. It's in virtually all processed foods, from beverages, to
cereals, to snacks, to canned and bottled foods.
If you're eating these kinds of foods, you're probably getting an overdose of
HFCS and headed down the road to a life of disease.
As the food in this country has become more and more processed, with more and
more toxic food additives, genetically engineered and irradiated ingredients,
the health of the population has been deteriorating.
To get true information about what's healthy for you to eat and what's not, make
sure you get it from a reputable source, and not from the food industry or any
of the many non-profit and pseudo health-related organizations that receive
financial support from the food and drug industries.
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