Archive for the ‘HFCS’ Category
HFCS & Diabetes Study
Showing insulin resistance is one of the first signs of developing type 2 diabetes.
Scientists undertaking a new animal study at Yale University have found that a specific gene ‘PGC-1 beta’ seems to play an important role in developing insulin resistance when rats were fed with a high fructose diet.
Scientists blocked the gene, and found that the rats didn’t develop resistance.
The report, in the journal Cell Metabolism, explains that some studies have shown that fructose is metabolized in the human body differently to glucose, and is more readily converted into fat.
Other studies have shown that high fructose diets also seem to lead to increased levels of blood fat, and liver fat.
Mercury Rising
Not only is High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) not good for us – despite how the corn refining companies dress it up, it’s still empty calories that we can do without – it’s found that up to 50% of it contains mercury.
Still, there is perhaps some light at the end of the tunnel. Last month 140 nations got together to develop an international treaty to phase out as much mercury use as possible. Not only that, but the U.S. was one of the leaders in pushing for this internationally binding legislation.
On the domestic front congress could help this by phasing out the use of mercury cell technology in domestic chlorine plants.
The U.S FDA should test HFCS for mercury content AND make those findings public.
We can all help, by cutting down on consumption of products containing HFCS.
New Study Shows Women At Risk From Soda
Researchers at Chicago’s Loyola University have found that women who drink more than one can of sugar-laden soda each day nearly double showing signs of developing kidney disease.
The study involved a national sample of over 9,000 men and women, and one interesting find was that the same signs were not shown in men who drink a similar amount.
It could be the excess of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in most sodas, or given that mercury has also been found in HFCS, in other similar studies, this could also be a factor.
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