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Posted 1/31/2014 2:05 PM (GMT 0)
Some of us (like myself) have noticed problems with soda and sweets made with high fructose corn syrup but not candy made with regular sugar such as most dark chocolate. This may be an explanation:

drhyman.com/blog/2011/05/13/5-reasons-high-fructose-corn-syrup-will-kill-you/
free fructose from HFCS requires more energy to be absorbed by the gut and soaks up two phosphorous molecules from ATP (our body’s energy source).

This depletes the energy fuel source, or ATP, in our gut required to maintain the integrity of our intestinal lining. Little “tight junctions” cement each intestinal cell together preventing food and bacteria from “leaking” across the intestinal membrane and triggering an immune reaction and body wide inflammation.

High doses of free fructose have been proven to literally punch holes in the intestinal lining allowing nasty byproducts of toxic gut bacteria and partially digested food proteins to enter your blood stream and trigger the inflammation that we know is at the root of obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia, and accelerated aging. Naturally occurring fructose in fruit is part of a complex of nutrients and fiber that doesn’t exhibit the same biological effects as the free high fructose doses found in “corn sugar”.

The takeaway: Cane sugar and the industrially produced, euphemistically named “corn sugar” are not biochemically or physiologically the same.
Posted 1/31/2014 6:26 PM (GMT 0)
Seems like I read something similar to this the other day. Can't remember what it was though.
Posted 1/31/2014 6:28 PM (GMT 0)
This is probably the reason I started cooking my own food from scratch. The perils of HFCS have always been known, so I'm not too perturbed with that. What disturbs me is what the research is going to show for the other ingredients we decided to approve without adequate testing and regulation. For instance, butter is a superfood, but GMO feed butter is crap for us.

We have to work very hard to not find something that isn't harmful to us in some way or form. Shame on the food manufacturers for profiting off this. But more importantly, shame on the FDA for perpetuating this. What an absolute joke of an organization.
Posted 1/31/2014 9:22 PM (GMT 0)
Yet another reason to avoid it! My friends thought I was crazy years ago when i cut HFCS and trans fats out of my diet but now they are all doing it too!
Posted 1/31/2014 10:49 PM (GMT 0)
Don't worry, the FDA is hard at work ensuring that you can't legally get helminthic therapy, mutaflor, Fecal transplants and other things in the US, even as they promote processed garbage in our diets on behalf of their masters. It is indeed a joke.
Posted 1/31/2014 11:04 PM (GMT 0)
We will all be paying the medical bills for the HFCS consumed by many, many people. Leaky gut, diabetes, many diseases as collateral damage.

HFCS however is one food I can absolutely say had nothing to do with my UC. I can't remember ever drinking or eating anything with it unless it was hidden and I rarely eat processed food.
Posted 2/1/2014 12:53 AM (GMT 0)
No doubt that HFCS contributed to my UC since I did drink soda regularly sometimes. I am sure that I have the "leaky gut" version of UC, (if there is such a distinction), that spread toxins everywhere via the circulatory system. I had extraintestinal symptoms throughout my body such as arthritis in all my joints, severe stomach pain, eye inflammation, liver problems, etc.

If one drinks diet soda instead then you can still have a problem because artificial sweeteners have been known to transform your gut flora to malevolent bacteria.
Posted 2/1/2014 1:12 AM (GMT 0)
Wow smhair this makes sense. I can't handle HFCS, or fructose in general. White and brown sugars seem ok.
Posted 2/1/2014 1:20 AM (GMT 0)
White sugar balances fructose and glucose.
Posted 2/1/2014 6:38 AM (GMT 0)
Yep. Table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. Fructose malabsorption is especially a problem in IBD patients, but 40% of the population, nevertheless, has issues with it.

It just seems like fructose in general is bad for just about anyone, nevermind HFCS. This is why I've kind of changed my stance on juicing fruits. I'm all for blueberries and apples, but it's the fibers, antioxidants and enzymes that provide the healing benefits in fruits.

The Jaminets recommend 100% glucose foods like dextrose or rice syrup as sweeteners since they absorb in the small intestine. I don't think those are problematic foods for us when we need that extra sugar boost after workouts or something.
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