Don't eat High Fructose Corn Syrup!!!!!!! Part 2

Why is it that we know this stuff, but we let our citizens eat this crap!

Before the sugar industry was developed, approximately 500 years ago, there was very little Fructose eaten by man/woman kind.  Fructose was primarily consumed at that time in honey, dates, raisins, grapes, apples, apple juice, figs, molasses, persimmons and blueberries.  Please, remember that sugar is a combination of glucose and fructose. Otherwise the diet was void of any fructose.  It is not found in dairy, meat or vegetables.  Therefore, before the time of sugar industry development, we were exposed to a very negligible amount of Fructose. 

Unfortunately, today the American diet does not receive its fructose supply from those natural products mentioned above.  It now comes from High Fructose Corn Syrup and sugar found in soft drinks and sweets, which are absolutely worthless as a food.

 Soft drink consumption, which should be called  High Fructose Corn Syrup consumption, has gone from 90 servings a year or 2 servings a week per person in 1942 to 600 servings per year or 2 servings per day in 2000.

A fact that bothers me the most is that more than 50% of preschool children drink beverages infused/tainted with HFCS. Children of this age in the past would not normally be exposed to fructose, let alone in these high amounts.

Science has shown that there is absolutely no biological need for dietary fructose. When ingested by itself, fructose is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, and it is almost entirely cleared by the liver.  If you gave equal amounts of fructose and glucose to a human and tested his or her blood you would find 500 times the amount of glucose in the blood.  This means the fructose has not effect as a fuel. It becomes a calorie that has no purpose. 

 Glucose stimulates insulin release from the pancreas, but fructose does not. Our body has only small amounts of the enzyme needed to transfer Fructose into the cell.  The enzyme to transfer glucose is in abundance. 

The most disturbing finding about fructose is that once in the liver Fructose is turned into glycerol.  Glycerol is the backbone of a triglyceride.   So, Fructose instead of raising insulin and leptin levels, a healthy thing, decreases both of these hormones, and increases triglycerides, a very unhealthy thing.  In the study that discovered this it even found more disturbing news.  It found that it did not suppress ghrelin, the hunger hormone—at all.