The Truth About Sugar & HFCS
Our bodies require so many nutrients to function optimally that filling our daily diet with empty calories will gaurantee nutritional deficiencies. Unfortunately, this hasn’t stopped junk food manufacturers from filling their foods with both refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup. What’s worse, the industry behind these foods has launched expensive ad campaigns claiming their priducts are “natural” and “harmless.” Dr. Mercola recently wrote an excellent article regarding the true dangers of consuming sugar and high fructose corn syrup. An excerpt from teh article can be found below. To read the entire article, just follow the link below.
“There’s a heated debate going on over the health risks of consuming too much sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and other caloric sweeteners.
On one side are leading nutrition experts, who believe that these sweeteners add empty calories to people’s diets and promote weight gain.
Emerging scientific research indicates that consuming too much of these sweeteners may increase your risk of cardiovascular disease and other health problems.
On the other side are industry groups representing sugar and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). They claim that their products are natural and don’t cause weight gain or health problems. And they have launched advertising and marketing campaigns to spread this idea.
The American Heart Association is on the nutrition experts’ side. The group recently issued a scientific statement saying that high intake of added sugars is implicated in many poor health conditions, including obesity, high blood pressure and other risk factors for heart disease and stroke.” – www.mercola.com