High Fructose Corn Syrup

Eat for the health of it.

And now High Fructose Corn Syrup has entered the picture. Who would think that Corn Syrup, syrup that my mother used in our baby formula to sweeten it a tad and if we were a bit constipated it would help move things along better. I used it in my babies formula too. We used Carnation or Pet evaporated milk in the can, half evaporated milk and half water and a little corn syrup. Of course that was simple, good old fashioned corn syrup. Now they have taken the corn syrup and added fructose (which is another safe sweetener, until someone got the bright idea to add some chemicals to it and processed these ingredients, making it an entirely different product and they call it High Fructose Corn Syrup. Giving us another very bad product, which I talked about earlier, and the terrible reaction I had from it. And what is really terrible is that they are putting it in everything that calls for sweetening.

I had my bout with Chlorine in the water, then Aspartame, MSG, Splenda that has Chlorine in it, Acelfame K in chewing gum, white flour and sugar that has the bleaching agent in it, now they bombard us with the High Fructose Corn Syrup. What can we do? Read labels. Stop buying anything with any of these ingredients in it.

It took me about 4 months to figure out what I was allergic to. Thinking that I had all the chemicals out of my life then I got this painful rash under my arms, breasts and groin area. I was raw,I couldn't sleep it was so painful. I went to the doctor and all she could tell me was to write everything down that I ate and the ingredients and when I did I kept seeing this High Fructose Corn Syrup. I read every label in the store before I purchased anything. I was shocked that so many things had it in. Everything that used to have sugar in it, now contained HFCS. It took awhile but after staying away from any foods that had HFCS in it, I was cleared of the itchy, painful rash. I couldn't even eat a tablespoon of catsup because that had HFCS in it. I love catsup so I have to make my own.

Have the people that add chemicals to these foods and okay them for consumption ever thought of what can happen to people who consume these chemicals? Apparently not or they just don't care because they are making money by pushing the poison. To me these chemicals are a slow poison, unless you have a severe allergic reaction and don't make it to the hospital. I have to carry two epi pens with me. I honestly believe that the chemicals are the cause of many of the illnesses today. As a child, I didn't know anyone that had cancer, diabetes or anyone that had a heart attack. The only disease that we feared was Polio. My mother cooked big meals all the time, like meat, potatoes, gravy, salad, veggies and she baked bread, cinnamon rolls, cookies, pie and cakes and we were not fat. That tells you something...Maybe these chemicals are making us fat instead of helping us lose weight.

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