Creating A Better World

• HFCS is a synthetically refined sugar.  It is a chemical made in a laboratory, it is not natural nor is it found in nature.  You cannot go out into a corn field and grab an ear of corn and somehow squeeze or extract some High Fructose Corn Syrup from it
• Levulose is natural sugar from fruits.  HFCS, having been refined, bears no more resemblance to levulose than H2O resembles O2H.  Fructose is a refined product, levulose is a natural sugar found in fruits and vegetables.  Even though there are some chemical similarities between the two, they are not the same.  Fructose is labeled in a way that makes it seem to come from fruit or is a fruit sugar.  Most people confuse the two and either think that fruit has the same destructive properties as refined fructose, or they think that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a natural sweetener found in fruit.  Neither is true.

Real corn (probably genetically modified)

• Refined fructose lacks vitamins, minerals, amino acids, pectin and fiber.
• Refined fructose is processed in the body through the liver, rather than digested in the intestine.
• In order to be assimilated, refined fructose robs the body of many nutrients and micronutrients.
• Unlike naturally occurring fruit sugars, HFCS contains “unbound” chemically refined fructose which interferes with the heart’s use of key minerals such as copper, chromium, and magnesium.
• HFCS is made with genetically modified enzymes.
• Caustic acids, clarifiers, and filtration chemicals are used in the refining process.
• Once ingested, refined fructose appears as triglycerides in the blood stream, or as stored body fat. When too much fructose enters the liver, the liver can’t process it all fast enough for the body to use as sugar. Instead, it starts making fats from the fructose and sending them off into the bloodstream as triglycerides.   Elevated triglyceride levels, caused by consumption of refined fructose, are building blocks for hardening human arteries.
• There is a proven relationship between HFCS and obesity.

• Because HFCS is foreign to the body it creates inflammation.

Have you noticed that almost all refined foods have HFCS in them?  It’s a cheap sweetener and filler.  Think about the enormous amount of energy used to refine corn syrup and all the other chemicals that damage our health and environment.

Is it even ethical to use our precious resources to chemically alter and refine corn, then portray the resulting product as something pure and natural?

Here’s how corn gets to be HFCS…is it natural?