Gabriel Cousens
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 Roughly $40 billion in federal subsidies are going to pay corn growers, so that corn syrup is able to replace cane sugar. corn syrup has been singled out by many health experts as one of the chief culprits of rising obesity, because corn syrup does not turn off appetite. Since the advent of corn syrup, consumption of all sweeteners has soared, as have people's weights.
According to a 2004 study reported in the American journal of Clinical Nutrition, the rise of Type-2 diabetes since 1980 has closely paralleled the increased use of sweeteners, particularly corn syrup. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 GM Corn: Cornmeal, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), baking powder, white vinegar, caramel, malt, confectioner's sugar, vanilla extract (contains corn syrup), and table salt (may contain a small amount of dextrose). |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Since the advent of corn syrup, consumption of all sweeteners has soared, as have people's weights.
According to a 2004 study reported in the American journal of Clinical Nutrition, the rise of Type-2 diabetes since 1980 has closely paralleled the increased use of sweeteners, particularly corn syrup. Data collected from the study of 51,603 nurses in the United States found that women who drank one serving of non-diet soda or fruit punch daily, which was sweetened with either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, gained more weight, an average of 10. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| GM Corn: Cornmeal, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), baking powder, white vinegar, caramel, malt, confectioner's sugar, vanilla extract (contains corn syrup), and table salt (may contain a small amount of dextrose). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The ingredients in the Balance Bar are, after the protein blend: sugar, corn syrup, glycerin, high-maltose corn syrup, fractionated palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, and even maltitol. So, let's get this straight here for a second. We have 6 ingredients after the protein blend, five of which are refined sweeteners.
This is the top sponsor of the Natural Health Products Expo. This is a show that's supposed to be about health. Is this a healthy product? Well, maybe the Balance Bar company would argue that "the Balance Bar can be part of a healthy diet," as all candy bar companies argue. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 The average American now consumes over 100 pounds of sucrose and 40 pounds of corn syrup each year. This sugar addiction probably plays a major role in the high prevalence of poor health and chronic disease in the United States.
Research in the past three decades has provided an ever-increasing amount of new information on the role that both refined carbohydrates (sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and low-fiber starchy foods) and faulty blood sugar control play in many disease processes. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| According to a 2004 study reported in the American journal of Clinical Nutrition, the rise of Type-2 diabetes since 1980 has closely paralleled the increased use of sweeteners, particularly corn syrup. Data collected from the study of 51,603 nurses in the United States found that women who drank one serving of non-diet soda or fruit punch daily, which was sweetened with either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, gained more weight, an average of 10.3 pounds, than women who drank less than one per month. The study was conducted over four years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The ingredients in the Balance Bar are, after the protein blend: sugar, corn syrup, glycerin, high-maltose corn syrup, fractionated palm kernel oil, high fructose corn syrup, and even maltitol. So, let's get this straight here for a second. We have 6 ingredients after the protein blend, five of which are refined sweeteners.
This is the top sponsor of the Natural Health Products Expo. This is a show that's supposed to be about health. Is this a healthy product? Well, maybe the Balance Bar company would argue that "the Balance Bar can be part of a healthy diet," as all candy bar companies argue. |
Byron J. Richards
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 High-fructose corn syrup, in addition to being genetically modified, is devastating to metabolism. The standard diet for making a rat diabetic is to feed it high-fructose corn syrup and excess saturated fat (with no essential fatty acids). Recently, scientists wondered which of these two ingredients was really inducing the diabetes, so they tested them separately. Not surprisingly, they both caused diabetes. Excessive saturated fat piles up in body organs and clogs them to a halt. High-fructose corn syrup causes such severe insulin resistance that diabetes occurs easily. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Virtually ALL of the Halloween candy being given away to children on this bizarre holiday is made of these three primary ingredients:
SUGAR (sucrose, corn syrup or high-fructose corn syrup)
COLOR (chemical food coloring additives, including the ones that cause ADHD)
FLAVOR (artificial chemical flavors)
Slap a blob of this nutritious mixture into a plastic wrapper, stamp a fun-looking logo on the outside, and you've got candy!
If you want to manufacture a different kind of candy, simply change the chemicals you're using to have a "bubble gum" flavor or a "tangy" color. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 Product
Source of Calories
Total Calories
Gatorade (PepsiCo), 20 oz Powerade (Coca-Cola), 20 oz
AllSport (PepsiCo), 20 oz Coke, 12 oz
Coke, 20 oz
Sucrose, glucose, fructose 125 High-fructose corn syrup, 180 glucose polymers High-fructose corn syrup 1 75
High-fructose corn syrup, 150 sucrose
High-fructose corn syrup, 250 sucrose
Perhaps an argument can be made for sports drinks when children are undertaking strenuous activity, but with the exception of some children participating in organized sports, strenuous activity is not common in schools (see Chapter 4). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, a manufacturer may use a combination of sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, brown sugar, dextrose and other sugar ingredients to make sure none of them are present in large enough quantities to attain a top position on the ingredients list (remember, the ingredients are listed in order of their proportion in the food, with the most common ingredients listed first).
This fools consumers into thinking the food product isn't really made mostly of sugar while, in reality, the majority ingredients could all be different forms of sugar. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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| Product
Source of Calories
Total Calories
Gatorade (PepsiCo), 20 oz Powerade (Coca-Cola), 20 oz
AllSport (PepsiCo), 20 oz Coke, 12 oz
Coke, 20 oz
Sucrose, glucose, fructose 125 High-fructose corn syrup, 180 glucose polymers High-fructose corn syrup 1 75
High-fructose corn syrup, 150 sucrose
High-fructose corn syrup, 250 sucrose
Perhaps an argument can be made for sports drinks when children are undertaking strenuous activity, but with the exception of some children participating in organized sports, strenuous activity is not common in schools (see Chapter 4). |
Jack Challem
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 High-fructose corn syrup appears to be worse than plain old sugar in terms of its health effects. Food companies also started to use large amounts of trans fats (in the form of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils), which contribute to diabetes, overweight, and heart disease.
Another change during the 1980s was the popularity of low-fat and zero-fat diets. Such diets almost always were high-carb and high-sugar diets, with the additional carbs and sugar further propelling people toward prediabetes. |
| It's best to stick with the very small amounts of natural sugar and carbs found in fruits and vegetables and to avoid all types of added sugar, such as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup. orange-flavored soft drinks are even worse. A two-quart bottle of Sunkist contains 1,040 calories and almost two-thirds of a pound (280 grams) of sugars. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This has generated an epidemic of obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. This epidemic is not being treated at the causal level. Note: Since the fructose in corn syrup does neither stimulate insulin secretion nor reduce the hunger hormone ghrelin, you will continue to feel hungry while the body converts the fructose into fat. The resulting obesity increases the risk of diabetes and other diseases.
Since you obviously cannot expect to receive much help from those who only know how to treat the effects of illness and not its causes, you may need to take your health into you own hands. |
| The concentrated phosphoric acid, artificial flavors and sweeteners, large quantities of refined sugar (mostly fructose corn syrup) and other chemicals contained in cola soft drinks are very destructive for biological life forms. So the body's cells will consider them to be poisonous and go into a stress response. Their energy production, measured by the amount of ATP molecules they make, begins to drop abruptly as a result of this response. This practically means that the tissues in the body are increasingly cut off from the routes of energy supply and, hence, become weakened. |
| Note: Since the fructose in corn syrup does neither stimulate insulin secretion nor reduce the hunger hormone ghrelin, you will continue to feel hungry while the body converts the fructose into fat. The resulting obesity increases the risk of diabetes and other diseases.
Since you obviously cannot expect to receive much help from those who only know how to treat the effects of illness and not its causes, you may need to take your health into you own hands. Foods have an almost immediate effect on the body. |
| Soft drinks and sports drinks (high in fructose corn syrup and salt).
• Less than adequate amounts of water drunk each day.
• Negative responses to stress.
• Alcohol consumption.
• Unresolved conflicts (impairing digestion).
• Fear and other emotional upsets.
• Any other weakening influence.
Sleep Well—Lose Weight
By some estimates, Americans average about six hours of sleep per night. That may be enough for some, but not for the majority of people, especially for those concerned about their weight. |
Jack Challem
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| Huge Amounts of Sugar in Soft Drinks and Juices
A 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola Classic, like most other soft drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, contains the equivalent of ten teaspoons of sugars. If you drink just one can of regular Coke, Pepsi, or Mountain Dew a day, all that sugar can pack on fifteen pounds over the course of a year. That alone can put you on the fast track to prediabetes.
Consider soft drinks a source of stealth calories. Serving sizes have increased substantially over the years, contributing to a growth in waist sizes. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Table 52—High Fructose Corn Syrup: Estimated Number of Per Capita Calories Consumed Daily, by Calendar Year." http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Sugar/Data/Table52.xls.
-. "Briefing Room—Diet and Health: Food Consumption and Nutrient Intake Tables." http://www
.ers.usda.gov/briefing/dietandhealth/data/foods/table5.htm.
-. "Estimating U.S. Food Consumption," Figure 1. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/sb965/ sb965o.pdf.
World Health Organization. "Populations with High Sugar Consumption Are at Increased Risk of
Chronic Disease, South African Researchers Report." Aug. 28, 2003. http://www. |
| The United States is the world's largest consumer of sweeteners, including sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, as well as one of the largest global sugar importers, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Just look at how our intake of sweeteners has soared over the past two centuries:
In 1801, historians estimate, each person consumed about 8.4 pounds of sugar, which comes to less than one tablespoon or 2.2 teaspoons a day. ii In 1909, when the first official U.S. |
| In fact, one review report from scientists from Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, CDC, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Inter-Medic Medical Group in North Port, Florida, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggested that corn syrup and refined carbohydrates may actually be at least partly to blame for the huge increase in type 2 diabetes in the United States over the past few decades. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Any label that says sucrose, glucose, maltose, lactose, fructose, sugar, corn syrup, or white grape juice concentrate is a source of added dietary sugar.
Salt. With all this talk of lowering cholesterol and improving the cholesterol ratios, it is easy to forget how important it is to balance the blood pressure and how foods may have a positive or a negative effect on this. For example, a diet low in potassium and high in sodium is associated with high blood pressure. By contrast, a diet high in potassium and low in sodium can protect against elevation of blood pressure. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Pour melted butter in 9 x 9 x 2-inch pan; set aside. Stir corn syrup, honey, curry powder, salt, and cayenne pepper in small saucepan until boiling. Boil 2 minutes; do not stir. Stir in 1 'A teaspoons butter until melted. Immediately pour over nuts. Stir until coated. Spread into prepared pan. Bake at 300 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden brown. Pour onto buttered baking sheet; cool. Break into small pieces. Makes 2'A cups. salad directions:
Place salad ingredients in large bowl. Toss with dressing. Sprinkle on 1 cup curried hazelnuts. break it down . . . |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's made with 42.6% corn syrup solids and 10.1% sugar, making it over 50% refined sugars! Marketed with a cuddly teddy bear on the front label and sporting the claim, "Balanced nutrition for older babies," Similac and other infant formula products are little more than sugar water for babies. Doctors and pediatricians remain silent. There is no outcry. No national scandal. No action by the FDA to protect babies. Some doctors even recommend this stuff! (And stupid parents keep buying it! |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 The glucose is often derived from corn syrup.
Many consumers believe that vitamin C is beneficial, as about 30 percent of the U.S. adult population takes supplemental vitamin C. Currently, vitamin C is the most widely used vitamin supplement in the world.
Vitamin C is also used extensively to preserve food. L-ascorbic acid and its fatty acid esters are food additives used as browning inhibitors, antioxidants, flavor stabilizers, dough modifiers, and color stabilizers. |
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