By now we know that: The production and consumption of high fructose corn syrup has sky rocketed because it’s a cheap sweetener That unlike sucrose, it’s metabolized totally in the liver where it turns to fat That it does not turn off your appetite, so you keep eating and get fat High Fructose Corn Syrup [...]
Filed under: Sweeteners on November 7th, 2011 | No Comments »
Let’s continue to explore the effects of high fructose corn syrup on the body by gaining an understanding of how the body metabolizes it and compare fructose metabolism with sucrose (table sugar) metabolism. From a chemical standpoint high fructose corn syrup and sucrose are remarkably the same, each containing approximately 50% glucose and 50% fructose. [...]
Filed under: Sweeteners on October 31st, 2011 | No Comments »
To better understand the effects of high fructose corn syrup on our bodies let’s take a look at how a whole food like corn becomes corn syrup. Manufacturers developed the process for making corn syrup back in the 1960s. Basically soaking the corn kernels in warm water with sulfur dioxide softens them facilitating the process [...]
Filed under: Sweeteners on October 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »
You probably don’t even realize that you’re eating high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) because it’s in so many processed and packaged foods. On the other hand if you choose natural whole foods, you probably rarely eat high fructose corn syrup. Either way it’s wise to know what’s going on with this form of sweetener in [...]
Filed under: Sweeteners on October 14th, 2011 | 4 Comments »
In our quest to explore sweeteners and how they affect the body, let’s take a look at sugar alcohols. Sugar alcohols are neither sugar nor alcohol So how did they get that misnomer? Basically their chemical structures look similar to alcohol and sugar, so someone coined the name sugar alcohol. As another type of carbohydrate [...]
Filed under: Nutrition, Sweeteners on September 26th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Excitotoxins – Part 4 Catch the beginning of this story here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/ http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-2/ http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-3/ And hidden sources of MSG here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/ Is it worth it to ingest these excitotoxins? Hardly! Now that you know, will you keep feeding processed food and diet drinks to your children? Will you keep eating it yourself? Remember if [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on September 16th, 2011 | No Comments »
Excitotoxins – Part 3 Review the previous articles here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/ http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-2/ And hidden sources of MSG here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/ How much processed food and diet drinks or candies or mints are you eating on a daily basis? If that’s your main diet, you are ingesting a heavy load of excitotoxins. You will have trouble finding prepared [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on September 8th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Excitotoxins – Part 2 MSG, Aspartame dangers uncovered. You will find part 1 here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/excitotoxins-part-1/ And hidden sources of MSG here: http://dr-jo-md.com/bewise/hidden-sources-of-msg/ Turns out the original assumption that glutamate supplied energy to the brain was almost right. But rather than supplying energy to the brain glutamate, aspartate and several other amino acids carry nerve messages [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on September 1st, 2011 | No Comments »
What would you do? If you found out that your daily meals contain a chemical additive that could cause brain damage in your children? If evidence indicates that this chemical could affect how your child’s brain forms and develops. If the damage caused by this chemical might not show itself until your child was older, manifesting [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Nutrition on August 29th, 2011 | 3 Comments »
From Excitotoxins, the Taste that Kills: “As discussed previously, the glutamate manufacturers and the processed food industries are always on a quest to disguise MSG added to food. Below is a partial list of the most common names for disguised MSG. Remember also that the powerful excitotoxins aspartate and L-cysteine are frequently added to foods [...]
Filed under: Food toxins, Sweeteners on August 29th, 2011 | No Comments »