Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:15:29 -0400
Reply-To: James Henry <jch@JCHGIS.COM>
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From: James Henry <jch@JCHGIS.COM>
Subject: Re: [Frydaye NVC] I'm on a mission
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John,
Very well said. I feel sure that we will eventually identify HFCS and
processed sugars as an even larger health threat to our society than
tobacco! This is the real frightening thing about future health care costs.
Good luck with your efforts to fight this monster. I have several friends
that have been very successful through recognizing and dealing dramatically
with the things you have outlined here.
I got on this soap box back in the early 80's after reading the book "Sugar
Blues". Fizzy drinks and cookies, hard to think of them as the evils that
they are.
Good luck.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
John Rodgers
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:32 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: [Frydaye NVC] I'm on a mission
to stamp out HFCS - high fructose corn syrup.
Here's the deal.
I'm a diabetic, Type II - in good control with diet, have been for a number
of years. I'm a member of a very unglamorus epidemic that is growing world
wide. When diagnosed, I set out to learn as much as I could about this
metabolic disorder. I am appalled at what I have learned. I could write
books on the subject now -but knew nothing in the beginning. Diabetes is
NOTHING like what I thought in the beginning. For Type II's, it is very much
a part of a mixed bag of disorders called metabolic syndrome. And therein
lies a hook.
Not to belabor the point, but to get to the point - dietary factors play a
large influence, and one is the use of and high consumption of HFCS.
It is in virtually every processed food product - fruit drinks, sodas,
yogurt, ice cream, processed sandwich meats, cereals, etc, etc, etc. And it
is poison!! It screws with your metabolism big time. Oh, it's very subtle,
does it's dastardly work slowly - like arsenic. Then one day you wake up and
find that your own body will not accept your own insulin so your cells can
feed on the glucose it uses as energy.. Your cells begin to starve, so they
turn to your stored body fat for energy producing ketone's that damage your
kidneys, your damaged kidneys now cannot process your blood properly and
your blood pressure begins to rise out of sight, and because your blood
glucose has no place to go and is so high it starts dumping out through your
kidneys, and because you are dumping glucose - a type of sugar - out of your
body where it has no business being, yeast infections begin to take hold
and abound, you begin to develop fatty liver disease which leads to
cirrhosis of the liver and eventual liver failure, etc, etc. Part and parcel
of all this is diet - and what is in the diet. And processed foods, and food
additives like HFCS are a big part of the problem. . So, to get some insight
to protect your self - get rid of anything that says HFCS - high fructose
corn syrup - on the label. Protect yourself, your family, your children.
Here is a link to a short article that elucidates the problem pretty clearly
in just a couple of short paragraphs. Read and be enlightened.
Fructose-Sweetened Drinks Up Metabolic Syndrome Risk
*http://tinyurl.com/d8qq24*
http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/fructose-sweetened-drinks-up-metabolic-s
yndrome-risk.html?nlcid=di|04-28-2009|
I wish the best for you all - avoid this HFCS stuff like the plague it is!
It is not found in nature, and is a highly processed, manufactured sweetener
ten times sweeter than sugar - and it hooks you.
*Please keep reply's off list.*
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
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