Posts Tagged ‘High-Fructose Corn Syrup’

Adults with newly diagnosed diabetes are at higher long-term risk of serious liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver failure, according to a research article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Sense and Nonsense

Of course it makes sense that diabetics are at risk for many negative effects from having the condition. The nonsense is thinking that this is a disease. What produced a diabetic state is usually a faulty diet with lots of processed foods, and high fructose corn syrup.

High fructose corn syrup, which some studies have liked to obesity, may also be harmful to the liver, according to Duke University Medical Center research.

“We found that increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup was associated with scarring in the liver, or fibrosis, among patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD),” said Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Duke University Medical Center.

Her team of researchers at Duke, one of eight clinical centers in the Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network, looked at 427 adults enrolled in the network. They analyzed dietary questionnaires collected within three months of the adults’ liver biopsies to determine their high fructose corn syrup intake and its association with liver scarring.

The researchers found only 19 percent of adults with NAFLD reported no intake of fructose-containing beverages, while 52 percent consumed between one and six servings a week and 29 percent consumed fructose-containing beverages on a daily basis.

An increase in consumption of fructose appeared to be correlated to increased liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD. . Her latest research, published online in Hepatology, goes one step further and links high fructose corn syrup to the progression of liver injury.

“Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is present in 30 percent of adults in the United States,” Abdelmalek said. “Although only a minority of patients’ progress to cirrhosis, such patients are at increased risk for liver failure, liver cancer, and the need for liver transplant,” she explained.

Bad Eating Choices and Risk of both Diabetes and Liver Disease

If you say your bad eating choices are the cause of your poor health you would solve a lot of problems.

Yes, brown rice is a whole grain. U.S.research wizards suggest that eating more brown rice and less white rice will lower people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This also means that a diet with more whole grains and less refined grains will lower people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

I hope these guys got their degree at Harvard, yes they did.  How astute of them to realize the whole natural form of a food is better for you than a refined version.

Brown Rice Secret Revealed

The reason for their observation was that a National Institutes of Health sponsored study led up to these finding in the June issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. The lead author was Dr. Qi Sun who worked on the study while at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and is now an instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sun, whose work was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Unilever Corporate Research, told the press that this was the first study to compare links between white and brown rice consumption and diabetes risk among Americans, who are eating more rice now than they did a few decades ago.

The reason that is given for the difference is unrefined grains have more nutrients and fiber, which slow the sugar spikes.

Government Guidelines

The US government’s guidelines recommend that Americans get at least half their carbohydrates from grains including rice. Americans are eating more rice, but the choice is usually white rice. Senior author Dr. Frank Hu professor of nutrition and epidemiology at HSPH, said:  “From a public health point of view, whole grains, rather than refined carbohydrates, such as white rice, should be recommended as the primary source of carbohydrates for the US population.”

Think Again

Unilever is on a mission to let you have all the refined food they can manufacture, with some whole grain brown rice thrown in for good measure. Hello, all studies show the importance of a whole food diet. This can include whole grains, but if the truth be known you can include or not include them and avoid diabetes.

Unilever has the biggest market share and is dominant in the food sector. The firm produces a variety of goods in the snack foods, fats and spreads, sauces and seasonings and beverages sectors.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Food

All you have to do is remove all food with high fructose corn syrup, wrapping, and a long shelf life. This is how you stay healthy, and do it your own way.  Any health secret revealed from main stream studies are a watered down recipe for healthy living. Most health conditions are preventable, the key to a healthier you is to realize all manufactured processed food is not food.

Metabolism is a conveniet catch phrase; it really is taken out of context most times.

Metabolism-One Part

If you just look at one part of weight loss you lose the whole picture. Your metabolism is influenced by chronological age, sex, genetic make-up, and proportion of lean body mass.  A few facts that will show you that this is a small part of most weight loss plans.

“Some people just burn calories at a slower rate than others” says Barrie Wolfe-Radbill, RD, a nutritionist specializing in weight loss at the New York University Medical Center. There are a few intriguing reasons for this.

Yo-Yo Dieting

What most people do not realize, the heavier you are the chances are your metabolism is running faster.

It may only be a small amount faster, but the fact is your body has to work harder to sustain itself.  

For that reason it is sometimes easiest to loss weight at the start of a diet. A small cut in calories when you are obese results in a fast weight loss at first.

But, then as you lose both muscle and fat you need fewer calories to sustain body functions. This makes it easy to put on the pounds again if you go back to your regular eating.

Yo-yo dieting: you loss weight and then gain back more than you lost, when you return to your old eating habits.

Lifestyle

At the end of the day, what it comes down to is lifestyle. As engaging as all the theories are, weight follows your lead. To change weight you have to change your habits. You have to handle stress, food, and activity differently than previously. The thing that matters is the way you work with the metabolism that you have. This is a realistic goal.

Walking and any type of physical activity help speed up your metabolism.

Eating the right foods, at the right time of day often helps boost your metabolism.

Plateau

Reaching a plateau is  one of the problems when trying to lose weight. If you binge after you drastically cut calories your body will hold on to the calories as if you are in a famine.

With that said, the answer really is in a healthy lifestyle. It is not just calories in and calories out. It is where you are getting your calories from. To boost your metabolism should not be the focus of your dieting plan. Here is the key, the modern processed food diet that we gobble up is the culprit not a slower metabolism. Previous generations did not know all the buzz words for weight loss yet; they were not nearly as overweight as we are.

High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Here is a clue high-fructose corn syrup can switch metabolism from a fat-burning one to one that stores fat.

It promotes the formation of long chain fatty acids that are resistant to oxidation.

The amount of long chain fatty acids you produce is directly related to the amount of fat in and on your body.

We need to stop talking about a slow metabolism and concentrate on what is your source of energy. Yes, that source is from the food you ingest.

The fructose in fruit is a small amount and it is ingested with the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber which are present along with any fructose.

What we are talking about is the high fructose syrup that is in our food in epidemic proportions. This is the first generation to consume processed food with high fructose corn syrup. Coincidentally, this is the generation that is facing an obesity epidemic, and a laundry list of chronic health problems.

Answer

The answer to becoming slimmer, is to become healthier. The way to do that is through an individualized nutrition plan, one that becomes a lifestyle. To keep using the metabolism excuse will keep you from being healthy. By concentrating on a healthy lifestyle, everything will work as it is mean to, including your metabolism.