JUST THE EMPIRICAL FACTS

HFCS, crystalline fructose, & criminally labeled - FDA unapproved toxic 'agave' (illegally affirmed false in labeling & non GRAS by FDA & really chemically refined hydrolyzed high fructose inulin syryp) are highly chemically refined forms of a man-made monosaccharide called 'fructose', of the same molecular weight as the fruit sugar occuring monosaccharide 'levulose', but NOT metabolized at all the same in the human body.

PROOF: Levulose or other naturally occuring, mono, di, or olgio saccharides, in fruit, convert to blood glucose for energy in the KREBS CYCLE. Refined chemical fructose (not natural, nor existing in this isomeration of polarity in nature) is not recognized by the human body, & automatically converted to blood triglycerides (leading to cardio vascular disease) as well as stored as adipose tissue (body fat).

But let's say that's not good enough for you. Well then why are more and more life and health insurers literally giving premium discounts to individuals not consuming HFCS, just like non drinker, non smoker & good driver discounts.

Argumentation by PR & spin entities like the one writing this opinion article are the equivalent of BIG TOBACCO denying, deflecting, & lying, for 45+ years, that their was no connection whatsoever between their products & disease.

In point of fact, this opinon pr spin piece reads as though it is written be a Tobacco Lobby Propagandist.

Read Greg Critser's 'FAT LAND: HOW AMERICA BECAME THE FATTEST NATION ON EARTH'

Watch at www.youtube.com food critic Mark Bittman's lecture: 'WHAT'S WRONG WITH WHAT WE EAT?'

OK, to recap, consume ONE soda, or other HFCS sweetened food, say a candy bar, (not an abundance) sweetened with HFCS, and your blood triglycerides with be up over 300% of normal. This does not occur with other forms of sweeteners (cane sugar, fruit juice, honey, maple syrup, etc.).

Americans consumed no HFCS, or other refined forms of fructose in 1970. It did not exist.

Today, 2009, some almost 40 years later, the average America is consuming approximately 98 pounds per year of refined man-made fructose (these are the hard numbers from the Corn Refiner's Production Numbers In Bushels Processed & Coversion Factors To Industrial Sales Per Year In Rail Tankers Sold).

Coincidentally, the obesity rates in America went from 12% of the population being MEDICALLY diagnosed obese, or morbidly obese, in 1970, to 34.86% now being medically diagnosed 'MORBIDLY OBESE', & 33.27% being MEDICALLY DIAGNOSED 'OBESE'.

The rates of insulin resistance, hypoglycemia, type 1 & 2 diabetes, cardio vascular disease, nutrient deplete trigger forms of cancer , all correspond with the Tsunami of HFCS used in the food/beverage chain.

Of an average 68,000 items sold in a mainstream supermarket in America today, 43,000 contain HFCS.

Other books of empirical data, for your consideration, of the proven health harms of refined fructose and HFCS are: SUGAR SHOCKED by Connie Bennett & Dr. Frank Sinatra, MD, & SWEET DECEPTION by Drs. Joseph Mercola & Kendra Pearsall, MD's.

The average America consumed less than 1,500 calories per day in 1965, & ate from 4 basic food groups, & we as a country were not OBESE. Why? Because there were real nutrients in our food, & we were satiated (satisfied - full), & did not over graze or consume.

Today, the average America consumes over 3,200 calories per day, & is not satisfied because there are 75% LESS nutrients in our highly process, refined, chemically maipulated, pasteurized, homogenized, chemically preserveted, colored, & artifically high sweetened food chain.

We are over fed & under nourished in America.

And this processed & sweeter western diet is now doing the same to Europe, Asia, Australia, where HFCS is even more deceptively labeled as 'glucose' or 'iso glucose'.

After air, water, & salt, the next most frequently used raw material (bulker/filler) in the America food & beverage chain is HFCS, because of it's low cost, & it puts higher profit margins into the pockets of manufacturers using it.

America has become slowly poisioned on HFCS laden food & beverages. Follow The Money.

THE SOLUTION offered by K Street Lobbyists for industries controlling the USDA and FDA? DRUGS, lots of them, and also more transfer of income/revenue, into the pockets of these DEATH MERCHANTS.

Read THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DRUG COMPANIES by Dr. Marcia Angell, MD, former editor and chief of The New England Journal Of Medicine for 21 years.

KING CORN, the name of a documentary out on DVD (also at www.youtube.com ) exposes all these FACTS.

REFINED CORN IS TO NUTRITION OR FOOD, WHAT PORN IS TO FINE ART.