{"id":990,"date":"2021-02-06T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2021-02-06T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:45:00","slug":"whats-worse-than-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"WHAT’S WORSE THAN SUGAR??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sugar has taken a bad rap. \u00a0 If we all ate sugar in limited quantities, it would be fine. \u00a0It’s just that we don’t<\/strong>. \u00a0HOWEVER, there is a substance that is worse and, I believe, deserves MORE blame than it gets for our societal health woes. \u00a0This substance was not even available in the United States before the 1960s. \u00a0Today it makes up over 20% of our daily carbohydrate intake. \u00a0So goes the story of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP(HFCS).<\/p>\n

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HFCS \u00a0is made from corn starch. \u00a0It is processed, using enzymes, and in its final form contains a mixture of fructose and glucose, making it similar to table sugar. \u00a0However, it is cheaper and easier to use than sugar. \u00a0 \u00a0HFCS is a liquid, whereas table sugar is a solid. \u00a0All of this has resulted in HFCS being added, it seems, to virtually everything! \u00a0Because of this we are ingesting<\/strong> enormous quantities<\/strong>. \u00a0And that is leading to many health problems.<\/p>\n

Humans metabolize fructose differently from other simple sugars. \u00a0Glucose, for instance, is metabolized by the brain, muscles, and the liver. \u00a0Fructose, however, is mainly metabolized in the liver. \u00a0In excess, it will raise your blood triglyceride level. \u00a0 And all that fructose overload, when it is turned into fat, \u00a0can lead to a fatty liver<\/strong>. \u00a0 When I was in medical school and residency, I never had a patient with a fatty liver. \u00a0Now it is extremely common.<\/p>\n

Today HFCS is prevalent in most US soda drinks. \u00a0The popularity of soft drinks has led to generations of kids who often drink a full day’s worth of calories in addition to the solid food they eat! \u00a0This has helped lead to the ever-increasing obesity rate<\/strong> in America. \u00a0This in turn, has led to increased diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and likely increased cancer and dementia rates.<\/p>\n

As to HFCS being everywhere, look at the list of foods below where it may be hiding:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0soda<\/li>\n
  2. candy<\/li>\n
  3. sweetened yogurt<\/li>\n
  4. salad dressing<\/li>\n
  5. frozen convenience foods<\/li>\n
  6. bread<\/li>\n
  7. canned fruit<\/li>\n
  8. juice<\/li>\n
  9. boxed dinners<\/li>\n
  10. granola bars<\/li>\n
  11. breakfast cereals<\/li>\n
  12. store bought baked goods<\/li>\n
  13. sauces and condiments (like ketchup!)<\/li>\n
  14. snack foods<\/li>\n
  15. cereal bars<\/li>\n
  16. nutrition bars<\/li>\n
  17. coffee creamer<\/li>\n
  18. energy and sports drinks<\/li>\n
  19. jams and jellies<\/li>\n
  20. ice cream<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    SO…….if Americans are to become healthy again, it is going to take changing the way we eat and drink. \u00a0We HAVE to go back to eating more whole, unadulterated foods. \u00a0We have to avoid so called foods that are made in labs. \u00a0We have kitchens, and we have curiosity and ingenuity! \u00a0Take your curiosity and ingenuity to your kitchen and see what YOU can come up with using whole ingredients. \u00a0And read food labels, avoiding anything that contains High Fructose Corn Syrup!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sugar has taken a bad rap. \u00a0 If we all ate sugar in limited quantities, it would be fine. \u00a0It’s just that we don’t. \u00a0HOWEVER, there is a substance that is worse and, I believe, deserves MORE blame than it gets for our societal health woes. \u00a0This substance was not even available in the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WySj-fY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}