High Fructose Corn Syrup is Everywhere. How to Best Avoid It!

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HFCS Dangers
Avoiding High Fructose Corn Syrup is Worth The Trouble

high fructose corn syrup For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been traveling up and down the East Coast. The relative inability to procure quality food while on the road gave me an excellent opportunity to check out how “regular American fare” has changed over the past couple of years (or in this case, hasn’t changed at all!).

Despite the growing number of people who recognize that high fructose corn syrup is 100% bad for you and causes all manner of deadly inflammation throughout the body, I was shocked at how regular processed foods still contain large quantities of this deadly, cheap sweetener.

High fructose corn syrup is literally everywhere!

It’s in basically all nonorganic condiments, breakfast bars, cookies, crackers, etc. It’s also in fruit juices geared toward children and babies!

Even athletes are consuming a lot through commercial sports drinks.

HFCS Dangers

Given that high fructose corn syrup is a big contributor to the large, protruding American belly that plagues over 80% of our over age 25 adult population and the exploding levels of childhood obesity, it is shocking that more people are not shunning this ingredient and falling all over themselves to get to the health food store where quality products can be found without corn syrup of any kind in the ingredients list.

Forget the crunches, sit-ups, and Pilates core work. It is extremely difficult to get rid of that belly if one consumes this ingredient with any regularity.

For some people, it is a big contributor to issues with canker sores.

Problems can sneak up on you too! My mother drinks 1-2 small bottles of quinine containing tonic water each day to avoid leg cramps at night. When she switched away from brands with HFCS to a stevia sweetened tonic water, she experienced a rapid reduction in joint and muscle pain from reduced inflammation.

Avoiding High Fructose Corn Syrup is Worth The Trouble

At least some people get it. The Earth Fare chain of health food stores doesn’t stock any product with HFCS.

Maybe on next year’s vacation, I will finally see this ingredient start to disappear from ingredients lists at supermarkets. In the meantime, make sure you protect yourself and your family and clean out your pantry of any food that contains high fructose corn syrup. There is simply no excuse to ever include this ingredient in processed food.

The amount of extra money you spend to buy healthy alternative products will be returned to you many times over! Like my Mom, many people experience across the board improvements with reduced inflammation and improved insulin resistance.

Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.