CORN SYRUPS WARNING!!!!! KILLERS IN THE SODA CAN: "HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SUGAR," "HIGH GLUCOSE CORN SUGAR," "HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP," "HIGH GLUCOSE CORN SYRUP," The above come in clever disguises. Unfortunately, there is another so called sugar that behaves so differently it should be looked at as a preservative that is sweet but cannot be digested.  It comes under various names such as "high fructose corn sugar," "high glucose corn sugar," "high fructose corn syrup," and "high glucose corn syrup," to satisfy the USDA label requirements in the "ingredients" section.  It got its first use in the soft drink industry because it was cheaper and basically non-biodegradable, which translates to more profit for the food industry. The problem is that our bodies don’t digest it readily, so much of it makes its way into our tissues as fat.  To give you a hint of its potentiality for disaster, it has been reported that our body can digest about 9 grams of “corn syrup” in one day, but one can of carbonated soft drink can contain as much as 48 grams.  Couple that with the fact that most processed food formulas, where sugar would traditionally be used, are now replacing sugar with corn syrup! It is no wonder why, in a little less than a generation, our jeans are now super-sized, and "jumbo" is constantly having to be redefined. The quest for profits has lead to the overthrow of sugar and honey by corn syrups, particularly high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is cheap to produce, sweet to the tongue, and easy to store safely. According to the USDA, the average American consumed 1/2 pound of high fructose corn syrup in 1970. By the mid- 1990s, that figure had jumped to 55.3 pounds of HFCS per person. HFCS finds its way into everything from bread to pasta sauces to bacon to beer. Despite the FDA's assurances to the contrary, a growing number of researchers are beginning to think HFCS is a constant dietary companion we'd be better off without.  High-fructose corn syrup contains a good deal of "free" or unbound fructose. And it may be this free fructose that interferes with the heart's use of key minerals, like magnesium, copper and chromium. The most striking evidence that it is bad for us comes from recent animal studies. When rats were fed a low copper, high fructose diet and compared with rats fed a low-copper diet high in complex carbohydrates, the difference in longevity was enormous. "Rats normally live for a good two years," explains Meira Fields, Ph.D., research chemist at the USDA in Beltsville, Maryland. "But the rats in my study that were fed a high-fructose, low copper diets are dying after 5 weeks." The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems. So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose. The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results. The male rats did not reach adulthood. They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy. Or in other words their heart’s enlarged until they exploded. They also had delayed testicular development. Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.)  In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart. The females were not so affected, but they were unable to produce live young.  "The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. Guaranteed, fructose helps you to:                             Get Fat Lose Your Bone Density Harden Your Liver The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhosis.  Fields said one of the few studies of low-copper, high-fructose diets in humans was abruptly stopped when 4 of the 24 subjects developed heart-related abnormalities. Eats Out Your Guts Makes You Dizzy Makes You Thirsty Wastes Your Money Eventually Kills You