Whats So Bad About High Fructose Corn Syrup?

[Music] if someone is going to have something sweet that has sugar in it is there a significant advantage to making sure it's sweetened with sugar as opposed to high fructose corn syrup even if the answer is no sugar is better if someone is choosing should they make a significant effort to have sugar as opposed to high fructose corn syrup why don't you describe what high fructose corn syrup is okay don't think it's a question of whether using you know deciding which is worse it's still I.

Don't really get into that stuff health why should be he's right about that but high fructose corn syrup is genetically modified so Monsanto had to do with that and so the corn 97% of the corn cultivated in your country is genetically modified so when they take the syrup the sugar from that it literally alters the brain as Senna shows us with autism you know now there's finally lawsuits coming out from the legal profession against this this type of pesticide and this is really really frightening stuff.

So sugar is bad but the added attraction is you'll get more cancer you'll get more autism and neurological problems by taking high fructose corn syrup which they've now tricked you they no longer call it high fructose corn syrup that has a target on it it's called fructose and I can show you in health stores where they have that in foods processed foods you know I'll just say basically when you look at the scientific literature sugar has a hugely detrimental effects to health fructose is similar but.

The effects are more pronounced so you would develop non-alcoholic fatty liver disease more rapidly if most of the sugar you were consuming came in the form of fructose the other thing that I was surprised I am trying to remember I think it was 2009 a study came out showing that probably about a third of the samples of of high fructose corn syrup actually contained some mercury and one study showed as much as 0.57 micrograms per gram of corn syrup and if you look at the sort.

Of the amount of corn syrup the average American is consuming it's about 8 teaspoons or 34 grams or so a day and so if you if you know if you do the math and then you look at what the EPA suggests as a maximum intake of mercury which is 0.1 microgram per kilogram body weight if a person was taking in sort of the most contaminated corn syrup they could actually be consuming around 20 micrograms of mercury a day actually the EPA maximums if you did the.

Math would be around five micrograms for for a 50 kilo or 110 pound person and about 10 micrograms for a hundred kilo person or a 220-pound person so so theoretically if you were getting the most contaminated corn syrup you could actually exceed your mercury limits quite easily just by consuming the average amount of corn syrup and that's not consuming any tuna fish or any other mercury containing food so there's a that's a concern as well I use only dried fruits as my my sweetener so I'll.

Use a few dates i D hydrate my own pears in the summertime I like dehydrated pears for a sweet you know sweetening any sort of treat and that's it III don't think we have need for other sugars really and also the more you sweeten your foods and the more you use sweeteners and even artificial sweeteners it deadens your taste for sweet yeah and it stimulates your appetite to try to eat more calories and want to keep continue to eat sweets so even if you're using non-caloric.

Sweeteners you become a food addict and you will desire more sweetened things and you're weakening your taste buds to enjoy natural flavor in strawberries and in delicious natural foods even let us stay sweet when you haven't been sugar addict to dulled your tastebuds this food the canned food packaged food because there's for sure sweetener you know in the 70s we took fat out of the food because we didn't want to get fat well we've added sugar to everything and there's the high fructose corn syrup and.

It's all kinds of sugars so start getting fresh food that that's how you get out of that I don't want to forget this because the most brilliant thing I've ever read on this subject was Michael Pollan's article in the Sunday edition of The New York Times it's you can find this on the internet so look at a pollen on high fructose corn syrup and the increase in weight in this country it's it's brilliant he's not a scientist he writes better than any scientist I've ever read.

Have you ever read pollens work yeah and I mean I'm gonna tell you after you read that article you know why we're fat in this country and in England and everywhere else [Music] you [Music].