I am so happy that the word is out - type 2 diabetes CAN be reversed through diet and other natural means. However, if you are searching for "how to reverse diabetes" online, you could possibly be misled by some websites to think that there is a single thing you should do to reverse diabetes. This is not the truth. There are actually SEVERAL steps you should take, most simultaneously, to reverse diabetes and you really need to follow all of them to make sure it works. The best comprehensive source of information that shows you all the steps to reversing diabetes that I have found is this one (this link will take you there).
However, having said the above, I think there are two things that you should do immediately while you are learning about the other things. In fact, I would say these things are so important that if you don't do them, they could literally prevent you from reversing your diabetes even if you are doing everything else correctly.
The two things are as follows:
1. COMPLETELY eliminate trans fat from your diet. Please note that this does not mean to just reduce trans fat or to eat trans fat in moderation. This means completely eliminate it 100% from your diet. If you even suspect something contains trans fat, don't eat it. There are many ways that you could possibly be getting trans fat without even knowing it. I do suggest you read my articles on how heating otherwise healthy trans fat can create trans fat, how canola oil contains trans fat even though it is not labeled that way (another article on coconut oil and diabetes), and how to identify trans fat on a food label.
2. You should also immediately and completely eliminate ALL high fructose corn syrup from your diet. Again, this means 100% eliminate it from your diet, not just reduce it. Read all food labels and look for the acronym HFCS as well as the word spelled out. Also note that "corn sugar" may be used in the future to replace the phrase "high fructose corn syrup."
Okay, I'm now adding a third action you should immediately take to this list and that is DETOX. Look for my information on how to detox in the archives. The source I linked above has a lot more information on how to do this safely as well.
Type 2 diabetes did not even exist before trans fat was introduced into the food supply and was responsible for the very rapid rise in this new disease in the 1930's. The second rapid rise in type 2 diabetes occurred in the 1970's when high fructose corn syrup was introduced into the food supply in a big way.
So, my advice to you is to completely and immediately eliminate these 2 things from your diet which you read and digest this information to learn the other steps you need to take. Keep in mind that I am speaking from experience as I myself have reversed my diabetes and I am on a personal quest to help others do the same. This disease is not even natural. It is a disease of modern world with all the toxins in our food supply. Luckily, there are ways you can reverse it.
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Showing posts with label high fructose corn syrup. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
What is "Corn Sugar?" and Why Should Diabetics Care?
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) suffers from an image problem - and for very good reason! The word is out that this industrial food toxin and it is REALLY bad for you. In fact, if you are trying to reverse diabetes, this is most definitely something you should immediately COMPLETELY eliminate from your diet.
Now, the Corn Refiners Association, a very powerful lobby group for corn growers and businesses that produce and use high fructose corn syrup, has decided it wants to pull the wool over the public's collective eye once again.
Instead of food ingredient labels listing "high fructose corn syrup," they are lobbying the US Food and Drug Administration to allow them to change this term to "corn sugar." They are claiming that the current term is confusing to the American Public and needs to be changed to make it more clear what it is. Of course, what they actually want to do is make it sound more benign and perhaps have it confused with corn syrup, not great for you but not as highly toxic as high fructose corn syrup!
In my opinion, what would make it more clear to consumers is if they labeled it what it truly is:
"industrialized artificial sugar-like substance that causes a variety of health issues, including fatty liver disease and diabetes"
This would be FAR closer to the truth than the benign sounding marketing term, "corn sugar."
Many type 2 diabetics developed their disease in large part because of industrialized artificial foods and the marketing that goes into making these artificial food-like substances sound like real food and actually good for you. Remember, if you drink down a cola with high fructose corn syrup, you are filling your body with poison. It may not kill you right away but after this stuff accumulates, it can cause you all kinds of grief.
Everyone, especially diabetics, should contact the USDA and let them know to leave the label alone and not allow this powerful lobby group buy their way out of this one. Let them know how much MORE confusing it would be if they changed the terminology now.
Don't forget to check out the video behind the red button above if you want the truth about how to cure diabetes.
Now, the Corn Refiners Association, a very powerful lobby group for corn growers and businesses that produce and use high fructose corn syrup, has decided it wants to pull the wool over the public's collective eye once again.
Instead of food ingredient labels listing "high fructose corn syrup," they are lobbying the US Food and Drug Administration to allow them to change this term to "corn sugar." They are claiming that the current term is confusing to the American Public and needs to be changed to make it more clear what it is. Of course, what they actually want to do is make it sound more benign and perhaps have it confused with corn syrup, not great for you but not as highly toxic as high fructose corn syrup!
In my opinion, what would make it more clear to consumers is if they labeled it what it truly is:
"industrialized artificial sugar-like substance that causes a variety of health issues, including fatty liver disease and diabetes"
This would be FAR closer to the truth than the benign sounding marketing term, "corn sugar."
Many type 2 diabetics developed their disease in large part because of industrialized artificial foods and the marketing that goes into making these artificial food-like substances sound like real food and actually good for you. Remember, if you drink down a cola with high fructose corn syrup, you are filling your body with poison. It may not kill you right away but after this stuff accumulates, it can cause you all kinds of grief.
Everyone, especially diabetics, should contact the USDA and let them know to leave the label alone and not allow this powerful lobby group buy their way out of this one. Let them know how much MORE confusing it would be if they changed the terminology now.
Don't forget to check out the video behind the red button above if you want the truth about how to cure diabetes.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Does High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Cause Diabetes?
There are several ways to answer the question of whether or not high fructose corn syrup, also known as HFCS, causes type 2 diabetes.
First, we know there is a striking correlation between the dramatic rise of type 2 diabetes since the 1970's and the increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the United States and other industrialized nations.
Contrary to the commercials paid for and put out by the Corn Refiners Association, high fructose corn syrup and table sugar are NOT alike, i.e. the phrase the commercial says, "sugar is sugar" is DEAD WRONG.
Table sugar is metabolized very differently than high fructose corn syrup. Fructose itself is a natural sugar and is the primary and natural sugar found in fruit but it is found in MUCH lower quantity in fruit than the amount of high fructose corn syrup found in sodas and many processed foods such as snack foods, sauces, condiments, and ketchup. Plus, the chemical structure of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is highly altered by industrial processes and behaves very differently in in the human body than does natural fructose (see below).
There is also a difference in the way sucrose or "table sugar" and natural fructose is metabolized. When fructose is eaten, it is immediately shuttled off to the liver. The liver immediately converts the fructose to fat which is probably one of the main reasons belly fat is on the rise. On the other hand, if you eat a small amount of sucrose it is immediately burned for energy. It is not stored as fat unless you eat too much.
Many large scale studies have linked this increase in high fructose corn syrup consumption to the rise in insulin resistance, i.e. type 2 diabetes. For example, a 2008 study by a group of scientists from the University of Florida at Gainsville studying non-alcolholic fatty liver disease found, "...the increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup, primarily in the form of soft drinks, is linked with complications of the insulin resistance syndrome." Most of these large scale studies incorporate data from the National Health Institute which is a mega database.
Similar links between the development of type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance) and the intake of high fructose has been demonstrated in laboratory animals through highly controlled experiments. Of course, we can't officially conduct experiments directly on human beings but in effect we have been doing so since the 1970's when there was a dramatic increase in the consumption of high fructose corn syrup across the vast majority of the population and it has been increasing ever since. I think the mega data speaks for itself. If you look at a graph, the increase in the consumption of high fructose corn syrup follows right along with the rise of type 2 diabetes - it is a perfect match.
In table sugar (sucrose), i.e. cane sugar or beet sugar, the fructose molecule is tightly bonded to the glucose molecule to form the compound sucrose molecule. However, in high fructose corn syrup the fructose molecule and the glucose molecule are NOT tightly bound together so the fructose heads directly to the liver to be converted to fat. So, don't let anyone fool you. Although two sugars may be called the same thing, "sugar" as the misleading commercials say, they may not be chemically the same at all. If they are different chemically, they are metabolized very differently.
There are many other effects of the artificially produced high fructose corn syrup that could be contributing to its ill effects but we just don't understand them fully yet. For example, it has been shown that beverages sweetened with high fructose corn syrup contain high levels of reactive carbonyls. These are highest in carbonated beverages but they are also found in fruit juices, teas, and other drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.
What is the connection between these reactive carbonyls and diabetes?
Well, so far we know for sure that diabetics have very significantly elevated reactive carbonyls in their blood stream compared to people who do not have diabetes.
Basically, I think any time you monkey around with a natural food, take it into an industrial lab and create an artificial food out of it through a radical chemical and temperature industrial process, you are apt to get a product that is not good for the human body!
If you are truly serious about reversing your diabetes, you need the right information. You need to know what foods you need to completely eliminate from your diet and which ones (including supplements) you need to add to your diet. The best source of information I have found, an incredible comprehensive source, is this one and I highly encourage you to check it out thoroughly.
First, we know there is a striking correlation between the dramatic rise of type 2 diabetes since the 1970's and the increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the United States and other industrialized nations.
Contrary to the commercials paid for and put out by the Corn Refiners Association, high fructose corn syrup and table sugar are NOT alike, i.e. the phrase the commercial says, "sugar is sugar" is DEAD WRONG.
Table sugar is metabolized very differently than high fructose corn syrup. Fructose itself is a natural sugar and is the primary and natural sugar found in fruit but it is found in MUCH lower quantity in fruit than the amount of high fructose corn syrup found in sodas and many processed foods such as snack foods, sauces, condiments, and ketchup. Plus, the chemical structure of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is highly altered by industrial processes and behaves very differently in in the human body than does natural fructose (see below).
There is also a difference in the way sucrose or "table sugar" and natural fructose is metabolized. When fructose is eaten, it is immediately shuttled off to the liver. The liver immediately converts the fructose to fat which is probably one of the main reasons belly fat is on the rise. On the other hand, if you eat a small amount of sucrose it is immediately burned for energy. It is not stored as fat unless you eat too much.
Many large scale studies have linked this increase in high fructose corn syrup consumption to the rise in insulin resistance, i.e. type 2 diabetes. For example, a 2008 study by a group of scientists from the University of Florida at Gainsville studying non-alcolholic fatty liver disease found, "...the increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup, primarily in the form of soft drinks, is linked with complications of the insulin resistance syndrome." Most of these large scale studies incorporate data from the National Health Institute which is a mega database.
Similar links between the development of type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance) and the intake of high fructose has been demonstrated in laboratory animals through highly controlled experiments. Of course, we can't officially conduct experiments directly on human beings but in effect we have been doing so since the 1970's when there was a dramatic increase in the consumption of high fructose corn syrup across the vast majority of the population and it has been increasing ever since. I think the mega data speaks for itself. If you look at a graph, the increase in the consumption of high fructose corn syrup follows right along with the rise of type 2 diabetes - it is a perfect match.
In table sugar (sucrose), i.e. cane sugar or beet sugar, the fructose molecule is tightly bonded to the glucose molecule to form the compound sucrose molecule. However, in high fructose corn syrup the fructose molecule and the glucose molecule are NOT tightly bound together so the fructose heads directly to the liver to be converted to fat. So, don't let anyone fool you. Although two sugars may be called the same thing, "sugar" as the misleading commercials say, they may not be chemically the same at all. If they are different chemically, they are metabolized very differently.
There are many other effects of the artificially produced high fructose corn syrup that could be contributing to its ill effects but we just don't understand them fully yet. For example, it has been shown that beverages sweetened with high fructose corn syrup contain high levels of reactive carbonyls. These are highest in carbonated beverages but they are also found in fruit juices, teas, and other drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.
What is the connection between these reactive carbonyls and diabetes?
Well, so far we know for sure that diabetics have very significantly elevated reactive carbonyls in their blood stream compared to people who do not have diabetes.
Basically, I think any time you monkey around with a natural food, take it into an industrial lab and create an artificial food out of it through a radical chemical and temperature industrial process, you are apt to get a product that is not good for the human body!
If you are truly serious about reversing your diabetes, you need the right information. You need to know what foods you need to completely eliminate from your diet and which ones (including supplements) you need to add to your diet. The best source of information I have found, an incredible comprehensive source, is this one and I highly encourage you to check it out thoroughly.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Why Diabetics Should Make Their Own Salad Dressings
I went grocery shopping yesterday which involved going to three different grocery stores. I had some time to spare so I took advantage of the opportunity to take a really close look at the ingredients on the various bottles of salad dressings at each store. If you've been following my blog, you will know that I checked out the salad dressings at Whole Foods recently as well and made a disgusting discovery.
Considering the toxins and unhealthy ingredients I found, I am more convinced than ever that diabetics who are serious about reversing their diabetes (and maintaining a healthy lifestyle after they do so) should make their own salad dressings. I have yet to find a commercially prepared dressing that doesn't contain something that would be really bad for someone with diabetes or anyone who wants to remain healthy.
The vast majority of non-organic salad dressing ingredient labels I read contained high fructose corn syrup which is known to contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes and also makes reversing type 2 diabetes nearly impossible! Most bottles also contained partially hydrogenated oils and/or genetically modified oils, two other major ingredients to avoid. Many also contained canola oil which contains trans fat and is almost always genetically modified (GMO)! They also often contained MSG and other artificial flavor enhancers. These are all toxic ingredients, especially for the diabetic. I found no exceptions to this - not one - and I looked at every salad dressing bottle on the shelf at all three stores!
What about organic salad dressings? Bottled organic salad dressings were definitely an improvement but, and this is a really big but, almost every one I picked up contained canola oil, which again has trans fat. It's also been show to raise blood sugar levels and cause other metabolic disorders, even if it is organic canola oil. You should also keep in mind that most supposedly non-GMO canola is contaminated with GMO canola because all varieties of rapeseed, including canola, are wind pollinated. There's so much GMO canola grown now (approximately 80% and rising), it is contaminating wild rapeseed to a very significant degree. You do not want to eat canola of any kind, including organic! It is toxic poison.
You can choose all the ingredients in home made salad dressings and actually make them into healthy super foods that can help you reverse your diabetes and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Remember, food is medicine for the diabetic! You can use ingredients like fresh organic lemon, organic apple cider vinegar, fresh herbs, fresh organic onion, fresh organic garlic, fresh organic fruit with lots of fiber and healthy antioxidants, and organic nuts. You can also use organic sour cream and yogurt to include probiotics in your salad dressing.
Home made salad dressings also taste much better than anything you can buy in the store. What does this mean? If you have a really tasty salad dressing you will want to eat more salads which is one of the healthiest things a diabetic can eat. Diabetics should be eating lots of dark green leafy vegetables and a variety of other salad veggies like cucumbers and tomatoes.
Of course, the easiest salad dressing is just to mix a teaspoon of healthy oil like extra virgin olive oil or nut oils with organic apple cider vinegar or fresh organic lemon plus sea salt and herbs to taste. However, you can of course also make some amazing creamy dressings as well. I've been experimenting a lot and creating my own recipes and I plan to add some of the best of these to my diabetic recipes blog.
You can literally CURE your diabetes with food and in the process eat tastier food than you've eaten in years. However, sometimes diabetics aren't successful at curing their diabetes because they skip a crucial step (for example, they fail to eliminate certain foods) which prevents them from being able to cure their diabetes. However, if you go to this page and check out the video there, it will tell you how to get the most complete resources that I have found for people who need a plan to cure their diabetes.
Considering the toxins and unhealthy ingredients I found, I am more convinced than ever that diabetics who are serious about reversing their diabetes (and maintaining a healthy lifestyle after they do so) should make their own salad dressings. I have yet to find a commercially prepared dressing that doesn't contain something that would be really bad for someone with diabetes or anyone who wants to remain healthy.
The vast majority of non-organic salad dressing ingredient labels I read contained high fructose corn syrup which is known to contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes and also makes reversing type 2 diabetes nearly impossible! Most bottles also contained partially hydrogenated oils and/or genetically modified oils, two other major ingredients to avoid. Many also contained canola oil which contains trans fat and is almost always genetically modified (GMO)! They also often contained MSG and other artificial flavor enhancers. These are all toxic ingredients, especially for the diabetic. I found no exceptions to this - not one - and I looked at every salad dressing bottle on the shelf at all three stores!
What about organic salad dressings? Bottled organic salad dressings were definitely an improvement but, and this is a really big but, almost every one I picked up contained canola oil, which again has trans fat. It's also been show to raise blood sugar levels and cause other metabolic disorders, even if it is organic canola oil. You should also keep in mind that most supposedly non-GMO canola is contaminated with GMO canola because all varieties of rapeseed, including canola, are wind pollinated. There's so much GMO canola grown now (approximately 80% and rising), it is contaminating wild rapeseed to a very significant degree. You do not want to eat canola of any kind, including organic! It is toxic poison.
You can choose all the ingredients in home made salad dressings and actually make them into healthy super foods that can help you reverse your diabetes and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Remember, food is medicine for the diabetic! You can use ingredients like fresh organic lemon, organic apple cider vinegar, fresh herbs, fresh organic onion, fresh organic garlic, fresh organic fruit with lots of fiber and healthy antioxidants, and organic nuts. You can also use organic sour cream and yogurt to include probiotics in your salad dressing.
Home made salad dressings also taste much better than anything you can buy in the store. What does this mean? If you have a really tasty salad dressing you will want to eat more salads which is one of the healthiest things a diabetic can eat. Diabetics should be eating lots of dark green leafy vegetables and a variety of other salad veggies like cucumbers and tomatoes.
Of course, the easiest salad dressing is just to mix a teaspoon of healthy oil like extra virgin olive oil or nut oils with organic apple cider vinegar or fresh organic lemon plus sea salt and herbs to taste. However, you can of course also make some amazing creamy dressings as well. I've been experimenting a lot and creating my own recipes and I plan to add some of the best of these to my diabetic recipes blog.
You can literally CURE your diabetes with food and in the process eat tastier food than you've eaten in years. However, sometimes diabetics aren't successful at curing their diabetes because they skip a crucial step (for example, they fail to eliminate certain foods) which prevents them from being able to cure their diabetes. However, if you go to this page and check out the video there, it will tell you how to get the most complete resources that I have found for people who need a plan to cure their diabetes.
Friday, September 10, 2010
How Much Sugar Do Americans Consume?
The human race did not evolve to consume so much carb as we currently consume and it's bound to reak havoc with our bodies. Some have called sugar the silent killer. So, I wanted to ask just how much sugar do Americans consume?
Several internet sources claim that the average American consumes more than 150 pounds of sugar per year, some, well actually many, consume much much more! I think the original source for this factoid came from a 2002 report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and of course the sugar association disputes it. When my Grandmother was a little girl, the average American only consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year so things have changed considerably. Oh, the same agency reports that many Americans eat almost double this amount per year! Of course, the Sugar Association, founded by members of the sugar industry, strongly disagrees with these stats.
According to the American Heart Association:
The average American consumes 22 teaspoons of sugar a day (that's simple sugar, not carbs in general). They say the biggest sources come from soda pop (33%) and candy (16.1%), ...hmmm, what about the high fructose corn syrup I read on the ingredient label of almost every condiment package I pick up these days and the vast majority of processed food packages I read... well, first they say cakes, cookies, and pies contribute 12.9%, sweetened fruit drinks 9.7%, sweetened milk products (like icecream and sweetened yogurt) contribute 8.6%, and sweetened grains like cinnamon and honey-nut waffles another 5.8%. Ok, add all that up and you've got 86.1%. I'm betting this is actually an underestimate because things like condiments often don't get counted. I recently went through a drawer of condiments collected from various fast food restaurants. I threw out about 80% of them because they contained high fructose corn syrup.
Looking at high fructose corn syrup specifically (which I believe is even worse than eating plain white sugar): the average American eats about 98 pounds of this stuff a year. I find it really difficult to avoid because so many products contain it. You basically just have to resolve yourself to not eating processed pre-packaged convenient food. One of my solutions is to cook more quantity when I cook up something really good and freeze individual servings in handy dandy microwaveable containers (yes, I know...microwaves aren't good either....working on that one but having to do this one step at a time).
More on this topic later.
Several internet sources claim that the average American consumes more than 150 pounds of sugar per year, some, well actually many, consume much much more! I think the original source for this factoid came from a 2002 report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and of course the sugar association disputes it. When my Grandmother was a little girl, the average American only consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year so things have changed considerably. Oh, the same agency reports that many Americans eat almost double this amount per year! Of course, the Sugar Association, founded by members of the sugar industry, strongly disagrees with these stats.
According to the American Heart Association:
The average American consumes 22 teaspoons of sugar a day (that's simple sugar, not carbs in general). They say the biggest sources come from soda pop (33%) and candy (16.1%), ...hmmm, what about the high fructose corn syrup I read on the ingredient label of almost every condiment package I pick up these days and the vast majority of processed food packages I read... well, first they say cakes, cookies, and pies contribute 12.9%, sweetened fruit drinks 9.7%, sweetened milk products (like icecream and sweetened yogurt) contribute 8.6%, and sweetened grains like cinnamon and honey-nut waffles another 5.8%. Ok, add all that up and you've got 86.1%. I'm betting this is actually an underestimate because things like condiments often don't get counted. I recently went through a drawer of condiments collected from various fast food restaurants. I threw out about 80% of them because they contained high fructose corn syrup.
Looking at high fructose corn syrup specifically (which I believe is even worse than eating plain white sugar): the average American eats about 98 pounds of this stuff a year. I find it really difficult to avoid because so many products contain it. You basically just have to resolve yourself to not eating processed pre-packaged convenient food. One of my solutions is to cook more quantity when I cook up something really good and freeze individual servings in handy dandy microwaveable containers (yes, I know...microwaves aren't good either....working on that one but having to do this one step at a time).
More on this topic later.
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