Soft drinks & Jam contain MERCURY ?!....
Today's post: Wednesday, 1-28-2009
As those of you know who have read this blog for awhile know, I currently very rarely post on Wednesdays.
But THIS is breaking news!
High Fructose Corn Syrup has been tested as containing MERCURY. Many people no longer eat swordfish because it contains so much mercury. And many people eat less tuna or eat it less often because it contains some mercury.
Mercury is a neurotoxin that reduces your IQ and can, if the concentration in your blood and brain gets too high, cause senility that’s hard to tell is NOT Alzheimer’s disease.
No one who knows this who is in their right mind would want to eat things often that contain mercury.
But the problem is you likely are now and already have been for years.
Most people today still drink regular soft drinks, mostly because it’s sold well and only recently have we found out it’s about as bad for you as smoking.
But, there’s more. High Fructose Corn Syrup, since it’s cheaper, sweeter, and easier to add to manufactured food and drinks, is still in as many as half the items in your local grocery store!
It’s in soft drinks, virtually all commercial baked goods and desserts, almost all jams, jellies, and syrups (except 100 % real maple syrup), and even things like ketchup, and even ice cream.
As you know, we have been recommending that you ingest no food or drink containing High Fructose Corn Syrup.
The evidence is mixed but the articles I’ve read suggest that it both makes sweet things more addictive since it is sweeter than sugar and causes extra metabolic problems that sugar does not.
But even more important, the stuff that contains High Fructose Corn Syrup is virtually all high glycemic foods or semifoods that you would be far healthier and less fat if you ate them rarely, once a week total at most, while the average American now gets several servings each and every day.
If you haven’t started reading labels yet to avoid foods that contain, High Fructose Corn Syrup; and no longer buy or ingest that stuff, check this out!
Every other serving on the average contains mercury!
This past Monday the online Health Day news ran this story:
“MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.
"Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply," the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.”
This study was “…. based on products "bought off the shelf in the autumn of 2008” “
Here’s why half of the High Fructose Corn Syrup contained mercury and half did not.:
“The use of mercury-contaminated caustic soda in the production of HFCS is common.”
It seems that the other half tested was made without this contaminant.
To be sure, at some point, rather than stop using High Fructose Corn Syrup and having the manufacturers stop making it, the industry will either voluntarily stop making the mercury contaminated kind of High Fructose Corn Syrup or the FDA will demand it.
But why trust those people?
The mercury free High Fructose Corn Syrup is almost as bad for your health. And, when you want to occasionally indulge in a sweet treat made with real sugar, you can add the sugar yourself or buy things that only use real sugar. I think they will start becoming more available at the store.
So do your health and waistline a favor and have fewer future medical bills and disabilities, simply stop buying or ingesting anything that contains High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Today's post: Wednesday, 1-28-2009
As those of you know who have read this blog for awhile know, I currently very rarely post on Wednesdays.
But THIS is breaking news!
High Fructose Corn Syrup has been tested as containing MERCURY. Many people no longer eat swordfish because it contains so much mercury. And many people eat less tuna or eat it less often because it contains some mercury.
Mercury is a neurotoxin that reduces your IQ and can, if the concentration in your blood and brain gets too high, cause senility that’s hard to tell is NOT Alzheimer’s disease.
No one who knows this who is in their right mind would want to eat things often that contain mercury.
But the problem is you likely are now and already have been for years.
Most people today still drink regular soft drinks, mostly because it’s sold well and only recently have we found out it’s about as bad for you as smoking.
But, there’s more. High Fructose Corn Syrup, since it’s cheaper, sweeter, and easier to add to manufactured food and drinks, is still in as many as half the items in your local grocery store!
It’s in soft drinks, virtually all commercial baked goods and desserts, almost all jams, jellies, and syrups (except 100 % real maple syrup), and even things like ketchup, and even ice cream.
As you know, we have been recommending that you ingest no food or drink containing High Fructose Corn Syrup.
The evidence is mixed but the articles I’ve read suggest that it both makes sweet things more addictive since it is sweeter than sugar and causes extra metabolic problems that sugar does not.
But even more important, the stuff that contains High Fructose Corn Syrup is virtually all high glycemic foods or semifoods that you would be far healthier and less fat if you ate them rarely, once a week total at most, while the average American now gets several servings each and every day.
If you haven’t started reading labels yet to avoid foods that contain, High Fructose Corn Syrup; and no longer buy or ingest that stuff, check this out!
Every other serving on the average contains mercury!
This past Monday the online Health Day news ran this story:
“MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.
"Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply," the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.”
This study was “…. based on products "bought off the shelf in the autumn of 2008” “
Here’s why half of the High Fructose Corn Syrup contained mercury and half did not.:
“The use of mercury-contaminated caustic soda in the production of HFCS is common.”
It seems that the other half tested was made without this contaminant.
To be sure, at some point, rather than stop using High Fructose Corn Syrup and having the manufacturers stop making it, the industry will either voluntarily stop making the mercury contaminated kind of High Fructose Corn Syrup or the FDA will demand it.
But why trust those people?
The mercury free High Fructose Corn Syrup is almost as bad for your health. And, when you want to occasionally indulge in a sweet treat made with real sugar, you can add the sugar yourself or buy things that only use real sugar. I think they will start becoming more available at the store.
So do your health and waistline a favor and have fewer future medical bills and disabilities, simply stop buying or ingesting anything that contains High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Labels: health news, hfcs, high fructose corn syrup, lose fat, mercury in food, mercury in soft drinks, prevent senility, protect your brain
posted by David at 12:23 PM
1 Comments:
That's really too bad.: I'd often had Hershey's chocolate syrup and thought it was made with sugar. And, though I've not used it often, I might well have used again because I did think it only had sugar and chocolate.
It turns out they have been using high fructose corn sryup instead. And, even worse, they've been using the mercury contaminated kind!
And, that's not all, I just got an email with this.:
"The mercury-contaminated products tested included name-brands such as Quaker, Hershey’s, Kraft and Smucker’s and included products such as Smucker’s strawberry jelly, Hershey’s chocolate syrup and blueberry Pop Tarts. "
Quaker Oatmeal is unsweetened so should still be OK. But apparently their sweetenend products are not OK.
It's beginning to get to the point that if you want something sweet that is safe to eat, you'll need to make it yourself so you know it only has OK ingredients.
This is a flaw the companies involved had best fix quickly or they may find over half their market gone.
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