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As people everywhere, especially women in menopause, face yet another year wondering how to get rid of the belly fat accumulating around their mid-sections, it might do everyone good to understand the science behind it all.
If you have a sweet tooth, get ready for the really bad news… because scientists have finally proved that fructose, a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks, can damage human metabolism.
As T.S. Wiley said in her book Lights Out, “America in the 1940s and 1950s was already dying in fast forward from fast-food products preserved in sugar, and from its changing lifestyles thanks to the light. Longer working hours, cheaper electricity and television kept people up later at night, and death followed… When you stay up too late in artificial light, you begin to live in fast forward with every fiber of your being.”
By the 1970s most food manufacturers switched their sweeteners from sucrose, otherwise known as table sugar, to corn syrup, because HFCS was cheaper and much sweeter. This was when the average American's diet really took a dive for the worse. Why? Because, the human body metabolizes fructose in a much different way than glucose. When you consume fructose in large amounts there are profound negative results to the liver.
Fructose is made out of corn, and it can cause fat cells to grow around your organs, and it triggers diabetes and heart disease. Currently the Corn Refiners Association is hoping to convince you that fructose is as safe and natural as table sugar. It is not. 15 grams a day of fructose was the average a century ago, while today 73 grams per day is what a typical adolescent gets from soft drinks, but it is also in salad dressings, and many other foods. It is these huge doses of fructose that are so bad. Oh and here’s the irony – most of the low-fat diet foods have the highest fructose levels.
Wiley points out that, “By keeping the lights on to create endless summer, and having access to endless carbohydrates, all of our hormones are in summer mode, too… Not only our minds but our hearts live in the constant “panic” of mating season (competition for resources, high hormonal mood swings, and, ultimately loss), which used to coincide with real summer. So, day and night, year-round, decade after decade, our sex hormones are in high gear and we’re ready for a fight. The low fat lies of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s have only exhacerbated an enormous evolutionary glitch by prescribing a diet of more carbohydrates and exercise, which induce cortisone and insulin highs that have never been seen before in humans. The real bottom line is that when you don’t sleep, your heart dies… Our heart has a seasonal metabolism, just like your brain. Your summer heart runs on straight sugar, (glucose) and your winter heart runs on free fatty acids.”
The metabolism of fructose by your liver also creates toxins like uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and can also cause gout. Fructose leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.
It's no wonder the food and beverage industry doesn’t want you to know how bad HFCS is because after its introduction in 1975, it has become a multi-billion dollar boost to the corn industry. It is in every processed food.
Today about one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American are comprised of added sugars, mostly HFCS with little to no nutrient values. We consume 142 pounds a year of sugar and 55 percent of the sweeteners used in foods and beverages are made from corn. The worst kinds of fructose include high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and crystalline fructose, both major contributors to: insulin resistance, obesity, elevated blood pressure, triglycerides and LDL, depletion of vitamins and minerals and cardiovascular and liver diseases, cancer, gout and arthritis.
Wiley teaches medical practitioners who come to her environmental endocrinology seminars that every living thing on the earth gets energy from glucose, and it originates from healthy fruits and vegetables filled with fiber, minerals, vitamins, enzymes, and phytonutrients, moderating any negative metabolic effects. Every human cell utilizes glucose but much of it is burned up right after you consume it, while fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), the damaging form of cholesterol known as VLDL, and triglycerides, which are stored as fat.
So the bottom line is - if you have a sweet tooth, stick to organic cane sugar, or raw honey in small amounts. Do not use any artificial sweeteners, which are worse for your health than fructose. And remember, even agave syrup is fructose.
And as the women who are taking the Wiley Protocol rhythmic bioidentical hormones know, replacing hormones naturally in the way they were originally produced, biomimetically, has a profound effect on energy and metabolism. So why would anyone want to destroy that by eating fructose?
Sources: Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco and; Source: Part 1 of a nine part series called "The Hazards of Sugar" by Dr. Joseph Mercola.
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