Posts Tagged ‘HFCS’

Support Cancer Growth: Consume Foods With Corn Syrup

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Here you will find the study on Corn Syrup and Pancreatic cancer proliferation.

Also, a solution as to how to avoid high fructose corn syrup.

This is a topic I has long been a part of my hospital based patient education.

If you want to help your cancer grow, consume foods with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a corn-based sweetener.

HFCS makes up about 40 percent of the sweeteners added to foods and beverages. In the US soft drinks, it is the sweeter of choice.

Our stomach enzymes for the most part, only digest right handed sugars. Note that proteins all have to be left handed.

Where does HFCS fit in. Well, since it is blended, it is both. So imagine putting a right handed glove on and then a left handed glove on the same hand.

Yea, it causes some problems. In the body, this can cause some interesting problems like the one we are reporting on here.

One problem it causes is that it helps cancer grow.

Check out this study from UCLA

At Glutathione Disease Cure you will find a section that looks at cancer and the GSH benefits in treating cancer.

The Solution: How to Avoid HFCS

I have recently discovered a solution.

My teaching holds to a belief in treating with complimentary alternative medicine. Visit any of my former hospital employers and you will see doctors doing all kinds of weird treatments.

Treatments like black strap molasses and peanut butter for anemia. Gum chewing for preventing post operation complications of the gut. Even teaching prostate cancer patients to eat two Brazil nuts a day.

However, meeting the needs and the constantly changing landscape of things that interfere with the absorption of certain supplements and knowing which are the right supplements to take has caused me to take pause.

It is cost prohibitive to take all the supplements we supposedly need to maintain life. If we are treating a disease or condition, that is another matter.

It is also time prohibitive to help anyone with out knowing their entire history. The doctors who I send my visitors to often complain that they are forced to treat symptoms and not the whole person.

When people seek help, they look at me like I have two heads when I tell them all the things they should avoid.

It is actually not that many things. Just fluoride, MSG, antibiotics in cows milk, Posilac in dairy products, all artificial sweeteners, HFCS, and any food packaged in some plastics and chemical exposure to the skin such as from Sham Poo.

Rather than telling people what to avoid, I am taking a new route to education. I am going to start teaching what to do.

Simply, start eating, drinking and living as all natural and as alive as you can. So, only live foods (uncooked or raw fruits, vegetables and grains), only natural soaps and detergents and only filtered water. These of course, as best as you can.

If you were only able to accomplish this to 75% of your intake or exposure, the body can take care of the rest.

The cost of this solution? Certainly less than supplements. Slightly more than what you pay for food currently. The enjoyment of life you will end up with, priceless.

So far, there is no MSG added to carrots that come out of the ground, There is no fluoride in spinach. You are not likely to find Mercury in many naturally grown foods although a study found it in half of the HFCS. And there will be no MSG in your raw salad makings.

Eat raw and you are half way to good health.

Good Health to you and yours.

High Fructose Corn Syrup, So What, I Will Tell You What!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Have you seen the Corn Refiners Association commercials on TV about the safety of high-fructose corn syrup?

The essential message is that high-fructose corn syrup is made from corn, has no artificial ingredients, has the same calories as sugar, and most of all, is okay if you eat it in moderation.

Without getting too geeky on you, HFCS is no more natural than bio diesel or urethane which all come from corn. I doubt you would like to eat the latter.

Although it comes from corn, it is manufactured by using enzymes (two natural, one synthetic). The process increases the fructose content of corn syrup to about 90%. Then it is then blended with a 100% glucose corn syrup to end up with the various mixes used in everything from baking to soft drinks.

By the way, table sugar (sucrose), a disaccharide, is comprised of a molecule of fructose and glucose that are bound together. It is a product of refinement and like HFCS, is not natural either. The difference is that it is not chemically altered as is HFCS.


What about the calorie count?

Although the same calorie count as table sugar, if you do the math, 3-6 servings a day can mean 500-1000 empty calories a day. That translates to 2 lbs of body weight a week, each and every week.

There is no RDA of daily sugar intake because we technically do not need it. The USDA recommends that sugar make up not more than 8% of our daily intake of calories. This is about 40 g of sugar a day or about 10 teaspoons.

How Much High Fructose Corn Syrup in Your Drink

Hmmm, so if we are to take high-fructose corn syrup in moderation, it would mean not taking it at all or eating nothing else with sugar in it.

A single serving of punch has 43 g of sugar in it. Way, way beyond moderation. Not only that, I bet you can’t drink just one, two or three. See, it does not register as satiation. Drink all you like but it does not help you feel full. So you can drink more and not feel it till the weight starts building up.

The AMA is a bit more conservative recommending no more than  32 grams of sugar daily. So, moderation means no soda, no punch and no high-fructose corn syrup. Or eat nothing else in the day that has sugar in it.

Other problems due to our bodies not being able to process high fructose corn syrup:

Unlike glucose, fructose does not result in the stimulation of the production of insulin, resulting in it being stored in the liver as triglycerides.

Increased diabetes because of the livers accumulation of triglycerides that contribute to reduced insulin sensitivity, insulin resistance, and glucose intolerance.

HFCS does not help with the appetite control hormones like glucose does. It encourages obesity.

Best (or worse) of all, it seems that HFCS plays games with the body’s magnesium balance, thereby accelerating bone loss.

But, I am not a dietitian nor a Madison Avenue Advertising agency. I am just a lowly nurse, trying to make a few people aware of the ulterior motives of some and the ulterior health concerns that could make their lives better.

Good health to you.