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"Americans actually consume more hfcs than sugar. Research has shown that high-fructose corn syrup goes directly to the liver, releasing enzymes that instruct the body to store fat. Believe it or not, this can be found in some seemingly healthy foods—many flavored yogurts, granola bars, energy bars, and breakfast cereals contain hfcs. Look for all other refined sugars in all their forms on the ingredients label, as manufacturers try to trick you into thinking their foods do not contain a lot of sugar." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The dramatic increase in the use of hfcs over the past 30 years is directly related to the overall increase in sugar consumption in the US. Many different products contain hfcs as an ingredient. Examples include beverages (especially soft drinks), cereal and baked goods, dairy products, candy, and many other processed foods. In the US, production of hfcs rose from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to 9.4 million tons in 1999. It used up about 5.3 percent of the total American corn crop in 2000." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"HFCS is simply sweet and is much less expensive than sucrose. Many different products can use hfcs as an ingredient. Some of these include beverages, cereals and baked goods, dairy products, candy, and many other processed foods. Production of hfcs in the United States increased from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to 9.4 million tons in 1999. The production of hfcs in 2000 consumed about 5.3 percent of the total American corn crop. The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has played the largest role in the increase of added sweeteners in the American diet." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"When consumed in large amounts, say by folks who routinely drink regular soda, hfcs seems to favor the creation of fat cells and fat storage. In addition, there is evidence that there may be some disruption of satiation (i.e., the feelings of fullness, of having had enough to eat) signals associated with regular consumption of hfcs. Obviously these two associations are not positive for people who are trying to lose weight. High-SOfJium fOOdS. This includes many canned foods particularly soups and some beans, crackers, ramen noodles, many condiments, and many prepared foods." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"In fact, many experts believe that the large increase in the use of hfcs in the past thirty years is directly related to the overall increase in sugar consumption in the United States. It is also being linked to both the obesity and diabetes epidemics. This link was detailed exceptionally well in Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser. With a quick search on the Internet you will find hfcs referred to as "the Devil's candy," a "sinister invention," and "the crack of sweeteners." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"You take out the sugar or hfcs and replace it with an artificial sweetener. Then you can have ice cream or soda or candy or cookies that are "good" for dieters because they satisfy your need for a sweet without adding too many calories. Right? Wrong! In fact, some fascinating studies have concluded that folks who consumed diet soda (sweetened with aspartame in this study) were more likely to gain weight over time than those who consumed regular sugar sweetened soda. Indeed, the risk of overweight for those consuming one to two cans of diet soda a day was 54." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Many different products can use hfcs as an ingredient. Some of these include beverages, cereals and baked goods, dairy products, candy, and many other processed foods. Production of hfcs in the United States increased from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to 9.4 million tons in 1999. The production of hfcs in 2000 consumed about 5.3 percent of the total American corn crop. The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has played the largest role in the increase of added sweeteners in the American diet." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"In case an inflamed brain and an addicition stronger than cocaine doesn't convince you, here are a few other reasons hfcs (and other forms of sugar) is harmful to the brain: •r Sugar uses up your body's store of vitamins and minerals without providing any in return. • ?High sugar consumption is tied to so many mental disorders it's hard to list them all.They include lower IQ, anxiety, aggressive behavior, hyperactivity, depression, eating disorders, fatigue, learning difficulties, and premenstrual syndrome.4 • :* Sugar causes crusting in your brain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"HFCS. Obviously these two associations are not positive for people who are trying to lose weight. High-SOfJium fOOdS. This includes many canned foods particularly soups and some beans, crackers, ramen noodles, many condiments, and many prepared foods. Our appetite for salt is almost as voracious as our appetite for sugar. Salt can mask the lack of real flavor in many manufactured foods. We've become so accustomed to salty foods that we've almost forgotten that real, whole foods—SuperFoods—don't need salt to taste good." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "You'll also find hfcs in places where you might not expect them like condiments, frozen desserts, peanut butters, salad dressings, and even ketchup. A friend recently asked me about a recipe she followed for a simple pasta sauce that called for a can of diced tomatoes. When she tasted the sauce she was puzzled by its sweetness. I suggested she check the label on the can of diced tomatoes. Sure enough, she found that it contained high-fructose corn syrup listed in the ingredients just below the Nutrition Facts panel." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"With a quick search on the Internet you will find hfcs referred to as "the Devil's candy," a "sinister invention," and "the crack of sweeteners." A distant derivative of corn, the highly processed syrup was created in the late 1960s and has become a hard-to-avoid staple of the American diet over the last twenty-five years. Many different products use hfcs as an ingredient. It provides the sweetness in everything from soft drinks like 7Up and root beer; fruit beverages like Snapple; and most baked goods including cookies, crackers, bread, and even ketchup." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Many different products contain hfcs as an ingredient. Examples include beverages (especially soft drinks), cereal and baked goods, dairy products, candy, and many other processed foods. In the US, production of hfcs rose from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to 9.4 million tons in 1999. It used up about 5.3 percent of the total American corn crop in 2000. The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has played the greatest role in the rise of added sweeteners in the American diet. Studies Table J.3." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Per capita consumption of caloric sweeteners, mainly sucrose (table sugar made from cane and beets) and corn sweeteners (notably high-fructose corn syrup, or hfcs) increased 43 pounds, or 39 percent, between 1950-1959 and 2000. In 2000, each American consumed an average 152 pounds of caloric sweeteners. That amounted to more than two-fifths of a pound, or 52 teaspoons per person per day.16 This is something unheard of in human history. Dr. Thomas Cleave did a historical survey after World War II of indigenous cultures to which white sugar and white flour had been introduced." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Believe it or not, this can be found in some seemingly healthy foods—many flavored yogurts, granola bars, energy bars, and breakfast cereals contain hfcs. Look for all other refined sugars in all their forms on the ingredients label, as manufacturers try to trick you into thinking their foods do not contain a lot of sugar." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"You can find further proof that sucrose and high fructose corn syrup are different in the corn lobby's claim that hfcs doesn't raise blood glucose and has low or no glycemic response on a glycemic index scale, at a rating of 20, yet sugar has a ranking of 100 on the GI. That's an 80-point difference. "How can the corn industry claim that fructose doesn't raise blood sugar, but sugar from cane or beet does? It's the equivalent of calling an apple an orange." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Ultimately, he notes, overconsumption of hfcs is "skewing the national metabolism toward fat storage." Now, a growing body of research and articles support that statement. Indeed, one examination of our sweetener consumption patterns, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that in a mere 20 years (from 1970 to 1990), consumption of high-fructose corn syrup leaped by more than 1,000 percent, "far exceeding the changes in intake of any other food or food group." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Researchers Speculate That Too Much hfcs Leads to Diabetes For years, fructose has been considered safe for diabetics because it doesn't trigger a rapid rise in blood sugar. Now, however, research reveals that over-consuming fructose and high-fructose corn syrup could actually be more harmful than sucrose for the very reason that it was originally considered safe." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Production of hfcs in the United States increased from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to 9.4 million tons in 1999. The production of hfcs in 2000 consumed about 5.3 percent of the total American corn crop. The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has played the largest role in the increase of added sweeteners in the American diet. Food consumption studies have found that the recent increases in energy intake coincide with increased consumption of soft drinks." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Food manufacturers made the switch from cane- and beet-based sugar to corn-based hfcs because it's far cheaper to produce than sucrose. Not only that, but high-fructose corn syrup is sweeter, is easier to handle during processing, has a longer shelf life, and keeps baked goods soft while giving them a warm, toasty color. Interestingly, as the use of high-fructose corn syrup has soared, America's obesity problem has also spiraled out of control." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The bottom line is that it is extremely important to stay away from hfcs to avoid excess calories as well as blood glucose fluctuations. Final Comments Table J.3 provides a ranking of natural and artificial sweeteners, along with a brief description of each and a recommended use level of liberal, moderate, conservative, or restrictive based upon available safety data. RECOMMENDED SWEETENER OTHER NAMES USE LEVEL QUICK COMMENTS Xylitol and other polyols (maltitol, sorbitol, mannitol, erythritol) Moderate Polyols are roughly 60% as sweet as sucrose." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Too many of America's food choices are high in calories, but low on satiety—chief among these culprits are soft drinks and other sources of hfcs. As a result, the infiltration of the American diet, beverages, and lifestyle into other parts of the world is creating a potential worldwide catastrophic effect on FOOD FACT: EVEN DIET DRINKS PROMOTE OBESITY In a landmark analysis, Dr. Matthias B. Schulze of the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues examined the relationships between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and weight gain and diabetes risk in women." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.) "In other words, diet soda consumption is twice as likely to lead to obesity as consuming soft drinks sweetened with hfcs. Why? Because it appears the diet drinks confuse the appetite control centers to trigger hunger rather than promote satiety. health with dramatically increased rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and virtually ever other chronic disease. IS OBESITY INHERITED? Yes and no. While there is no actual "fat gene," virtually all of us have inherited a powerful tendency toward obesity. It actually begins at the moment of conception as the genetic code from our parents combine." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Not surprisingly, the introduction of hfcs into the food supply is associated with the beginning of the obesity epidemic." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.) "Getting off sugar, hfcs, hydrogenated fats.junk food, alcohol, and caffeine for this one-week preparation phase, in fact, is powerful enough to totally change your health and help you lose weight quickly. Take a risk. If you do nothing else, doing this will change your life. Phase I: Detoxify Your System (Three Weeks) In this phase you are going to clean up your diet. Getting rid of garbage foods, moving toward a diet of whole, unprocessed foods, and eliminating foods that you may have sensitivities to will help you start the weight loss process and reboot your metabolism." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.) "You just stay hungry and keep eating more sugar or hfcs, which continues to fuel this cycle. This has been shown to lead to increased appetite, calorie, intake, and weight gain as well as high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Steer Clear of Artificial Sweeteners Aspartame (NutraSweet),8 neo-tame, acesulfame potassium, saccharin, sucralose, and dihydrochalcones are artificial sweeteners consumed by two thirds of the adult population and are a significant component of our diets. They are in many packaged foods, artificially sweetened foods, gum, candy, sodas, drinks, and mints." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.) "However, the effect of hfcs in soft drinks and other sweetened beverages merits serious consideration as an important cause of the obesity epidemic. WHY THE FRUCTOSE IN HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT IN ORDINARY SUGAR The digestion, absorption, and metabolism of fructose differ in significant ways from those of regular sugar. Table sugar, as we know it, is a combination of glucose and fructose and is known as sucrose." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"In the US, production of hfcs rose from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to 9.4 million tons in 1999. It used up about 5.3 percent of the total American corn crop in 2000. The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has played the greatest role in the rise of added sweeteners in the American diet. Studies Table J.3. Ranking the Non-sugar Sweeteners RECOMMENDED SWEETENER OTHER NAMES USE LEVEL QUICK COMMENTS Sweet Fiber Stevia Sweet leaf Tagatose Liberal An all-natural combination of inulin, tagatose, xylitol, and natural flavor." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"HFCS [high fructose corn syrup], both are essentially disaccharides composed of one glucose and one fructose molecule," and that "Growing evidence is linking excessive intakes of added sugars with undesirable health risks of obesity leading to increased incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications, especially cardiovascular disease." Thus, opinions may differ among experts even when based on the same set of scientific "facts." In sum, I have never disseminated "distorted and damaging statements" about sugar." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"The production of hfcs in 2000 consumed about 5.3 percent of the total American corn crop. The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has played the largest role in the increase of added sweeteners in the American diet. Food consumption studies have found that the recent increases in energy intake coincide with increased consumption of soft drinks. Simple Carbohydrates Simple sugars are either monosaccharides composed of one sugar molecule or disaccharides composed of two sugar molecules. The principal monosaccharides that occur in foods are glucose and fructose." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

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