Tag: Corn Syrup

If you are trying to be more mindful of the foods you are eating, it is important that you look deeper than just the...

The typical Western diet is abundant in high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a highly processed food sugar that's hurting our health. In the body, HFCS disrupts hormones that control lipid balance and inflammation. The result is larger, bigger fat cells and increased inflammatory markers. HFCS even increases ghrelin, the appetite hormone that enhances food intake. You'll be more likely to feel hungry after eating, leading to a greater risk of weight gain and poor overall health.

Today, the diet of most people consists of processed or packaged foods, which contain many food additives. Food additives are mainly added to foods to enhance flavor and to increase their shelf life. Two of these food additives that are extremely dangerous for our health is HFCS and MSG. These two food additives must be avoided and consumers must read the ingredients label to avoid them.

Be it with pizza, burgers, pasta, fries, or scrambled eggs, ketchup is a basic necessity for these dishes. A delicious dollop of ketchup makes...

High-fructose corn syrup might make products taste good, but it is of no use to your health. It provides absolutely no nutritional value; a load of calories; accumulates fat in the body; increases the risk of obesity, causes diabetes, cancer, heart disease, gout, and other disorders; and overburdens the liver. It gives you a lot more fructose than your body can digest and manage.

Think twice or a hundred times before you stretch out your hand to grab a can of soda. Learn how a feeling of fleeting relief can cost your health big time.

Sugar is the number one inflammatory food you need to be cautious of. Apart from the usual suspects like soda or sweetened beverages, be sure to cut back on its hidden sources too. Think pasta sauces, yogurt, bread, granola! Other worst offenders include corn, soy, canola or safflower cooking oils, fried foods, refined grains such as white rice, bread or pasta.

Most natural food or ingredients usually have a short-shelf life. However, those yummy noodles you slurp, packet of chips you crave for and canned...

"Millions of children are ingesting potentially unhealthy amounts" of vitamin A, niacin and zinc, and fortified cereals are the leading source, said a new...

  Nowadays people tend to eat more processed and junk food due to their busy competitive life style. But what we don’t know is that...

What is High Fructose Corn Syrup? First produced on Japan in the late 1960s and fervently adopted by the US in early 1970s, high fructose...