High fructose corn syrup

In the past decades heath related problems have increased drastically. This can be seen in people of all ages. It is not a secret that our food has been changed a lot. Due to the changes of ingredients of our food that we consume every day many people started to have serious health problems related to health. One of the very famous dietary ingredients known to everyone is high fructose corn syrup. First it was made and introduced in United States in late 1950s, but it was not perfected. A decade later Japan have improved and started using it for mass production. HFCS was added to processed foods and soft drinks as a sugar substitute. Advantage of this new food additive was a much easier production and a low price. Right after Japan, USA started using it too; however, no one new its affects on the human body. Since USA started to add HFCS to manufactured food and soft drinks, the rates of obesity, heart diseases and metabolism problems has grown.
Since we started to use HFCS in our manufactured food our obesity rates have been increased among the all ages of USA residents. According to Centers for Desease Control and Prevention (CDC), “During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States and rates remain high. By state, obesity prevalence ranged from 21.0% in Colorado to 34.0% in Mississippi in 2010. No state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%. Thirty-six states had a prevalence of 25% or more; 12 of these states (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia) had a prevalence of 30% or more.” One significant problem that causes obesity is that HFCS mainly consists of “empty calories”. When people consume them, they feel still feel hungry for some time, since these calories don’t give a feeling of being full after a meal. Because of this, people consume much more food than they need for survival. In turn the body stores all this left over energy from fructose in fat reserves, slowly but inevitably causing obesity. According to New York Times Magazine, “it's clear that if the fructose hits the liver in sufficient quantity and with sufficient speed, the liver will convert much of it to fat. This apparently induces a condition known as insulin resistance, which is now considered the fundamental problem in obesity, and the underlying defect in overweight individuals.” Also the other effect of eating foods and to drinking soft drinks with HFCS is causing serious heart diseases. Statistics of Million Hearts Association says “ Heart disease kills roughly the same number people in the United States each year as cancer, lower respiratory diseases (including pneumonia), and accidents combined. Number of people in the United States who die from heart disease: 2,200 each day, 800,000 each year (150,000 are under 65), 1 in 4 deaths in the United States is due to heart disease. 1 in 3 people (80 Million) in the United States have some form of heart disease, which can include severe chest pain, heart attack, heart failure, and stroke. Number of heart attacks and strokes that occur in the United States: 2,000,000/year. Heart disease and stroke cost the nation $444 billion/year in health care costs and lost economic productivity. Ph. D. Clive Brown says “ Too much sugar can make your heart race. A recent Swiss study found that when people consumed 60 grams of fructose, their systolic blood pressure spiked by as much as 6 points for 2 hours afterward. What's more, the people's heart rates rose by up to eight beats a minute. "Your blood vessels don't relax after you consume fructose, and your heart is forced to beat faster and more powerfully. Over time, this may boost your risk of cardiovascular disease." Your best strategy? Avoid high sugar foods like candy (especially in huge portions); they're typically sweetened with sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup, both of which contain about 50 percent fructose. Because HFCS almost in all our manufactured foods and drinks, HFCS causing very big problem in our heart diseases. The other cause from eating HFCS of our health is breaking our metabolism. Our bodies get the energy they need from food through metabolism, the chemical reactions in the body's cells that convert the fuel from food into the energy needed to do everything from moving to thinking to growing. Specific proteins in the body control the chemical reactions of metabolism, and each chemical reaction is coordinated with other body functions. In fact, thousands of metabolic reactions happen at the same time — all regulated by the body — to keep our cells healthy and working. Metabolism is a constant process that begins when we're conceived and ends when we die. It is a vital process for all life forms — not just humans. If metabolism stops, a living thing dies. Specialist in healthy food Sara Novak gives a very clear reason why is HFSC is breaking our metabolism.” The corn syrup interferes with the body's metabolism so that a person can't stop eating. It's truly hard to control cravings because high fructose corn syrup slows down the secretion of leptin in the body. Leptin is a crucial hormone in the body that tells you that you're full and to stop eating.” By eating HFCS we can damage process of metabolism in our bodies. There is opinion among the people that HFCS made from corn and there is nothing bad by eating this food ingredient. One of the reasons why it is bad in the way its made. The process of making high fructose corn syrup is pretty weird. First of all, there's nothing natural about high fructose corn syrup, and it most certainly does not exist in nature. The process starts off with corn kernels, yes, but then that corn is spun at a high velocity and combined with three other enzymes: alpha-amylase, glucoamylase, and xylose isomerase, so that it forms a thick syrup that's way sweeter than sugar and super cheap to produce. That's why it's poured into a huge majority of mass produced processed foods. The other opinion, that we can feed all hunger people by producing the HFCS, because it is very cheap and easy to make. What about condition of our health? Statistics shows that one of 4 Americans has problems with obesity, and about 2 millions of people dying from heart diseases every year. By producing this product we can just simply destroy ourselves. For last few decades by adding HFCS to our foods and drinks we have increased our obesity rates around all states among the all ages off US residents. Also, new product was increased heart diseases, because eating or drinking HFCS immediately racing your heart rate in several times. This can boost your heart to get cardiovascular disease. One of the other problems is slow metabolism. Metabolism is chemical proses in sells of our body. By slowing down metabolism our sells not feeding properly and our organism are quietly slowing down and we are loosing normal activity. Also, very important to know that HFCS made by chemical process. Our body also has chemical process, but when body gets HFCS, it starts to work in different way, and HFCS destroys our own chemical process of feeding our sells. In My plan we have to ban HFCS at least in our restaurants and schools, because we are eating a lot outside of our house. The other my idea is to write on the each product that contains HFCS how bad is it for our bodies like we do on alcohol and cigarette products. Everyone will know that containing of HFCS in product can cause our health; So that, we will use caution in our supermarkets, before buying any products with containing corn syrup. If anybody already addicted to corn syrup and has health problems that I mentioned before, I am suggesting start exercising every day at least 45 minutes, because it will heal your body from all diseases that I mentioned before, and tried to avoid HFCS, while you are on treatment. We need to build a good future for our next generations. Lets be healthy!!!

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Sara Novak. (2010, december 20). four reasons to avoid hfcs. Retrieved from http://www.sott.net/articles/show/220642-Four-Reasons-to-Avoid-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup