President-Elect Obama, HFCS, and Diabetes
Our new President-Elect Obama promises to bring health care to every American that needs it. FoodSpook requests that Mr. Obama addresses one of the great hazards in our food system that is making people obese and creating greater and greater numbers of type II diabetics every year. That hazard is called ‘high fructose corn syrup’. Our food lobby in Washington is extremely powerful. Our new President-Elect wants a new health insurance system, but does he want our citizens to be healthy? Healthy people use health insurance less often. The use of HFCS must be addressed.
The question is , will President-Elect Obama’s administration have the courage to take on our American food industry and challenge the use of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in so much of our foods. HFCS is a cheap form of sugar that is created by chemically altering corn products. Is is NOT good for human digestive tracts. In fact, many doctors and nutritionists believe the consumption HFCS might be the main culprit behind the exploding number of people developing type II diabetes in America today.
Our food companies are running TV and print ads about how HFCS is not harmful if consumed MODERATELY. They are trying to make you accept the fact that the existence of HFCS in your food system is alright. Nothing could be farther from the truth. When you start reading the list of ingredients on every packaged and every canned food product you are about to buy, you will realize that 80 to 90 percent of products on our grocery shelves contain HFCS. I dare you to pickup the first 10 boxes of breakfast cereal when you enter the breakfast isle in your grocery store and read the label of ingredients. Every box will contain HFCS. Why? Because it has become the new processed “sugar,” and it is the cheapest sugar on the block. Refined sugar is a man-made product and has never been good for our health. C and H sugar convinced us over the years that sugar processed from sugar cane plantations in Hawaii was sexy, (just look at the pretty Hawaiian Hula girls and happy kids in the cane fields of Maui in their commercials), well those commercials were a lie! We have on obesity problem in America that greatly driven by among other things, the amount of sugar we consume. HFCS is has been engineered to fool your body and brain. When you eat foods and drink sodas sweetened with HFCS, first of all, your digestive tract does not break this sugar down into the necessary nutrients to power the muscle systems of your body. That sugar is just passes through your colon system and is distributed to storage locations on your body, mainly your waist, butt, and thighs. That’s bad. Secondly, the food industry and fast food outlets don’t tell you that this sugar, (HFCS) has a major side effect on your brain. The brain tells you that you are still hungry, even when you are full! This is a perfectly engineered sugar for the food industry. It’s cheap to produce and it causes the consumer to eat more, (ie. “super size me”).
I hope the President-Elect realizes it’s no use developing a national health plan if we are going to allow the food industry in this country to purposely and knowingly create very sick people that by numbers could possibly bankrupt any health plan that could be implemented. I hope the President-Elect has the kind of conviction it will really take to help change the perception of “health” in this country.
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