WARNING: Ketchup - Yogurt - Soda & Other Foods You Eat May Contain Mercury

This isn't the first time I've told you that High Fructose Corn Syrup was bad for you. Nor is it the second. This is now the 3rd time I've written an exclusive blog post on HFCS and I think it's time to call this one "a health warning".

According to a MONDAY, Jan. 26, 2009 report by HealthDay News and reported in the Washington Post --- "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".

So now I'm going to update my list of reasons why High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad for you and now add the toxic metal MERCURY to the list.

With all of the food items like Ketchup, yogurt, soda, Gatoraide, Poweraide, breads, candy and most commercially available foods that have been sweetened, it's the accumulation of HFCS that could be harmful, now because reports show it contains mercury.

Let me give you a couple other hardball quotes from the article:

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

So consider this a health alert. Consider this a warning. Remove foods that contain HFCS from your diet in any and all amounts.

Click here to read the Washington Post's Article for yourself. Then, please forward this blog post to your friends so they can read it for themselves!

If for some reason that link doesn't work, copy and past this into your browser: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html

If you are in high school or college right now, it is very likely that you've had some HFCS at every meal, 3 times per day for your entire life.

Feeling a bit concerned? Step-1, remove all foods containing HFCS, Step-2 click here to check out the mercury poisoned web site for a list of symptoms related to mercury toxicity. Step-3 go see your physician about a hair analysis and blood tests to check your levels of mercury. Step-4 Start a nutritional detox or purification program to clean your system out.

So, here we have another example of "mankind" trying to make things better than nature and screwing it up yet again.

Eat clean, eat foods that our ancestors did 50,000 years ago and you'll do well. If it wasn't part of our diet back then, it probably shouldn't be part of our diet not. Cut out additives, added sugar and ingredients with names that should be part of a chemistry experiment. And, no, your body shouldn't be part of their experiment.

Although I haven't eaten HFCS in about 2-3 years, I'm starting the Standard Process SP Purification Monday. Click on the link and read about it. It's good to do it yearly anyway.

I've provided a bunch of links in this blog post. Read them and do your own research. I'm sure you'll come to the same conclusion as I have.

Good luck. Post a comment if you have any questions.

'nuf said

DocT

ADDENDUM

Looks like everyone is picking up on this HFCS & Mercury Story.

Here are some links:

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-27-corn-syrup_N.htm?csp=34


Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,484088,00.html


Environmental News Network: http://www.enn.com/health/article/39188

Green Biz: http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2009/01/30/bpa-lingers-mercury-common-foods

Medical Net: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=96029

WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090127/mercury-in-high-fructose-corn-syrup?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136879.php


And just to show I’m fair and read both sides, here’s the one opposing view (Followed by my opinion):
ChemRisk, Press Release: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/090130/aqf035.html?.v=67 who says the study is flawed.

My Opinion:

That’s all well and good. They say the study is flawed and make their argument. So there’s now a good healthy controversy. Question: Now, do you want to put your children, your family at risk until they figure out if the artificial sweetener HFCS, that has replaced real sugar in most commercially available food products in the USA…is safe? Remember the opposition years ago saying smoking had no harmful effects? They also said studies were flawed.

So, you can choose to purchase foods that don’t contain HFCS and not even worry about the risk, the study being good or flawed or whatever. Or you can go ahead and play Russian Roulette with your family’s health. Read over the list of symptoms for mercury toxicity and put a check by the ones you have. Then tell me what’s flawed.

Opt on the side of nature.

‘nuff said.

DocT

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.

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HCFS Is Not Natural Says the FDA!!!

FINALLY more justice for my blog articles. For the past couple years I have been mouthing off about this horrible sweetener called High Fructose Corn Syrup and I featured 2 prior posts on this just this HFCS stuff(Drink Soda-Get Diabetes & Is Yogurt As Bad As Soda).

Put up as another form of a "natural type sugar", this crapola is used to sweeten everything from ketchup-to-Yogurt-to-Coke & Pepsi. And, in all those wonderful children's cereals and other foods. But finally, the FDA has take the double talking money mongering larger than life food industry corporations to task. High Fructose Corn Syrup, even though it is derived from corn, is not natural. Because, it takes a chemical process to create it. Read more on the FDA decision.
Hear me now food industry...JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING STARTS OFF AS A NATURAL OR WHOLE FOOD, WHEN YOU ARE DONE PROCESSING IT, IT IS NO LONGER NATURAL.

Valium once started out as Velerian Root. Does that make Valium natural? NOT!!!

The stuff this chemical process creates is something foreign to the human body. High Fructose Corn Syrup (here after known as HFCS) is as artificial as any other artificial sweetener and in my humble opinion, can have equally devastating effects. Basically, you are forcing your body to use a sweetener it was never made to use. Therefore, the digestive process must process something it hasn’t spent the last 100,000+ years evolving with. Corn itself, in its current form hasn't been in evolutionary food chain long enough for our physiology to adapt it as a healthful food for us, so HFCS a real no-no (read the book, The Omnivore's Dilemma for more info on that).

Now, any food, drink or other product to be consumed that contains HFCS can no longer advertise as “natural” or “all natural”.

BUT….WATCH OUT!!!! I “guaran-damn-tee” you that you’ll find products on the market, such as breads, advertising “100% whole wheat”, which in the mind of the consumer, will imply it’s a natural product. Flip the package over and I’m sure you fill find my sugar-wannabe arch nemesis high fructose corn syrup. Read the food label, not the packaging. They'll find a way to fool you on the packaging, but the food label is closer to the truth.

Why is this HFCS so bad? Well, I’ll have to refer you to an early blog post. The explanation has more to do with the history of our evolution as humans over the past hundreds of thousands and even millions of years. If you are a Discovery Channel or Science Channel buff, you’ll find it very interesting. If not, then, well, it may put you to sleep.

So, chalk one up for the consumer. We finally get a little closer to the truth in labeling we all deserve. Now, if a company wants to increase its profits by using a cheap artificial version of sugar in the form of HFCS, go right ahead. I'm all for making a profit. After all, why else are you in business? But, just label your products as such so we as consumers can make the right choice for ourselves and our families based on truthful information.

I for one don’t mind paying a bit more for something that I know is good for me, rather than getting fooled into the belief that something good for me is basically a Trojan horse for a company trying to hide the truth. Let's be honest capitalists, okay big food corps? This way we let the consumers drive the markets based on the truth.

As a doctor though, my advice is to cut out all HFCS and hydrogenated oils, add whole grains, fresh fruit and veggies and you’ll have a much better life. Remember, HFCS is one of the main culprits in childhood obesity, diabetes and weight gain. 3 more great reasons to cut it out of your life.

For those who read my blog and ask what the heck does this have to do with sports medicine….well, if you put good high quality food into your body, you’ll get better performance out of it.

‘nuff said.

DocT

Dr. Narson is a 2-term past president of the Florida Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries, Physical Fitness & Rehabilitation and was honored as the recipient of the coveted Chiropractic Sports Physician of the Year Award in 1999-2000. He practices in Miami Beach, Florida at the Miami Beach Family & Sports Chiropractic Center; A Facility for Natural Sports Medicine.