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Maintaining Normal Blood Sugar Level – The Dangers Of High Fructose Corn Syrup
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What’s on the label? For diabetics, addressing high blood sugar symptoms by watching sugar and carbohydrate intake is a way of life. Reading food labels quickly becomes a past time you simply didn’t want to sign up for. In the interest of a diabetics health, what is a diabetic person to do when big food manufacturers begin to conceal sugary ingredients by renaming them as something else? This is becoming a more serious problem in the area of processed food manufacturing today.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
This corn based sweetener has been around for over 40 years and the consumption of it in processed foods as increased over a 1000% just in the first 20 years of its production. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition stated that “HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) now represents more than 40 percent of caloric sweeteners added to foods and beverages and is the sole caloric sweetener in soft drinks in the United States,” writes George A. Bray, Samara Joy Nielsen and Barry M. Popkin, the authors of the commentary.As disturbing as this commentary is, we must understand that the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup will continue to soar because it is one of the least expensive ways to sweeten foods today. If you want to lower your blood sugar to normal ranges, you will need to become knowledgeable about your consumption of this ingredient.
Consumption Guidelines
It is impossible for the average consumer to know for certain how much High Fructose Corn Syrup is in a product. But if it is listed at the top of the ingredients on a product, you can confidently assume there is a lot of HFCS in that food item. If you are going to consume it, make sure it is either low on the ingredient list or that the overall grams of sugar on the product are low. You will also want to be aware that the consumption of HFCS can lead to the following conditions:
• It may increase insulin resistance and triglycerides
• It increases the amount of processed foods you eat, thereby decreasing your intake of nutrient-dense foods
• It can lead to higher caloric intake
• It can lead to an increase in bodyweight
• It fools your body into thinking it’s hungry
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Hostvipor (3 comments.) said on April 7th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Thanks for the good work guys,i am glad to see finally what you have been working on all these months
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