High Fructose Corn Syrup
This is awesome. The corn industry is obviously concerned about people educating themselves on the health risks of high fructose corn syrup. They developed an ad campaign and a site to try and tame people’s concerns about the dangers of high fructose corn syrup. The campaign trys to exploit the fact that people are hearing that HFCS is bad, but most average americans can’t explain why it’s bad. A repeated theme in the campaign is that it, (HFCS) is natural because it comes from corn… so it is fine. Corn may be natural, however, the processes that creates HFCS is by no means natural or happens in “nature”. Add to that the fact that corn is in so many food products, is a genetically modified crop, and gets hit with lots of pesticides and you’ve got a product you may want to reconsider ingesting.
Check out the ad campaign here.
Don’t be one of the uneducated idiots played by the actors in the ad campaign. A study published earlier this year from the University of California Berkeley showed that compared to glucose, fructose had the following effects.
1) Four-fold greater intra-abdominal fat accumulation
2) 13.9% increase in LDL cholesterol, doubled Apoprotein B
3) 44.9% increase in small LDL, 3-fold more than glucose
4) Increased postprandial triglycerides 99.2%.
Other studies have shown that fructose:
–Increases uric acid–No longer is red meat the cause for increased uric acid; fructose has taken its place. Uric acid may act as an independent coronary risk factor and increases high blood pressure and kidney disease.
–Induces insulin resistance, the situation that creates diabetes
–Increases glycation (fructose linked to proteins) and protein cross-linking, processes that underlie atherosclerosis, liver disease, and cataracts.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com
If you want to learn more, the study is published in it’s entirety here.
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Thursday’s WOD:
A.) Overhead Squats
7-7-7
B.) 100 Burpees
*every minute perform 3 strict pullups (or most challenging pullup variation you are capable of)
