AVOID IF POSSIBLE : 7 Alarming Reasons to Avoid High-Fructose Corn Syrup | Read this insightful post via Food Identity Theft @FoodIDTheft There’s nothing natural about HFCS. It’s just a thick syrupy combination of weird chemicals like alpha-amylase, glucoamylase, and xylose isomerase and corn kernels spun at a high velocity. Because high-fructose corn syrup is super cheap, easy to obtain, and sweeter than sugar, food companies love that stuff. They pump it into ketchup, spaghetti sauces, canned fruits, breakfast cereals, and a slew of other food products… and eventually into our bodies. Since everything contains high-fructose corn syrup these days, the average American consumes 1,000 times more high-fructose corn syrup than people did in the 1970s. That adds up to 63 pounds a year… each person! We’re consuming that stuff in gigantic quantities never before experienced in human history, and it’s slowly killing us. Read more >> lifed/7-alarming-reasons-to-avoid-high-fructose-corn-syrup#9U1D05iEICshrJIh.99 And sign our petition >> citizens.org/HFCS
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:48:41 +0000
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