Saturday, August 7, 2010

Searching The Research




There is a world of information out there on HFCS and its affects. Some articles claim it is innocent of any wrongdoing.



Others propose that it is guilty of being the root cause of the alarming rise in obesity and diabetes among young people.



And there is also a rather middle of the road opinion that HFCS is just another in a long list of food additive culprits. I am no expert but I believe there is truth to be found regarding how HFCS and other ingredients are affecting our bodies. I will leave it to you to peruse the 2 videos and 5 articles I have embedded in today's blog - and you may find some even better ones you would like to research in order to formulate some kind of opinion on your own.

I sometimes have an honest-to-goodness 'unwell' feeling come over me when I consume a soft drink or fruit juice that contains HFCS. Coincidence? Allergy? Or is my body trying to tell me something? I go with the latter. I have long been in tune with my body's signals and am never sorry when I heed those signals and make changes.

Nature has an endless list of 'incredible edibles'. They are here for our use. It is my belief that if we partake of this bounty in the season therof in as natural a state as possible we will be far better off. The Mediterranean Diet is a time tested example of how this works to promote health and long life.
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2 comments:

  1. Annie LaurieAugust 8, 2010 at 6:44 AM

    How can we get the typical American food shopper to read labels? Food labeling was one of the most significant health education triumphs of the 20th century (believe it or not, there was a time not so long ago, when food shopper had no information about the product they were buying but the name and weight) but now the big job seems to be getting consumers to USE them!

    As for me, when I see someone in the store reading a label, I always stop and say "Good for you!"

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  2. Annie LaurieAugust 8, 2010 at 6:50 AM

    In the UK, food labels are marked red, yellow and green. Red labels are for calorie dense products (lots of calories, not many nutrients), yellow labels are for those not so good, but not so bad and green labels are for nutrient dense foods (not many calories and lots of nutrients). Do you think we should go to a similar system for hurried and harried grocery shoppers?

    Ha! As if the corn and sugar lobbies would allow THAT!

    The FDA, and not the USDA, is the federal agency that oversees food labels, BTW.

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