Death By Nutrition

While the long term effects on the human population of eating large amounts of genetically engineered food additives has yet to be fully understood, the weight of evidence indicates the compromise of our immune system may be happening quicker than many of us are ready accept. When our immune system weakens, just like the honeybees, we are less able to fight off disease.

Everything humans eat or drink must first be broken down into its chemical components before nutrients can contribute effectively to building body parts or provide the energy needed to carry on throughout the our busy day. Nutrition is so important to our health, the human stomach has its own independent nervous system, separate from the brain.

Sweeteners like honey and natural sugar are disaccharides. A disaccharide is one of four chemical groups of carbohydrates. Natural sugar is composed of two monosaccharides linked or bound together by a glycosidic bond. This bond is Nature’s way of helping our digestive system process food slowly, so the nutrients needed for cell regeneration are absorbed properly. In natural sugar the two monosaccharides are fructose and glucose both of which must be metabolized in the body. Metabolism is the chemical processes that occur within a living organism. Glucose metabolizes in every cell in the body. Fructose can only be metabolized in the liver.

Glucose is often referred to as ‘blood sugar’. It travels through the blood diffusing cell membranes with the help of insulin to regenerate or replace damaged cells. For instance, our brains cannot function without glucose. One million brain cells die every day making our brain totally dependent on it. Our pancreas creates the hormone insulin which acts like a binding agent enabling cells to absorb glucose. In a healthy person, too much glucose can result in a host of diseases. Too little glucose can lead to cell damage. Therefore, it is vitally important that the amount of glucose in our blood remains constant. To meet this life-saving criterion effectively, glucose stimulates insulin production in the pancreas thereby regulating the amount required by the body.

HFCS Overload
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) on the other hand enters into our diets in the form manufactured GE corn syrup. A small amount is not harmful. But when high concentrates of GE HFCS are continually ingested, the fructose becomes immediately available to the body for processing creating a nutritional nightmare. Unlike natural fructose which is bound to food fiber to slow down the digestive process, the chemical bonds of fructose and glucose in GE HFCS are broken while in production. They are then rearranged in the manufacturing process to produce different blends of the artificial sweetener. The end result is isolated fructose and isolated glucose both enter our body en mass playing survival tag. And that’s where the real trouble begins.

Initially the body has trouble regulating the high amounts of glucose because the temporary spike of isolated fructose blocks the regulatory action of insulin. As a countermeasure, the liver starts making fats to store what it believes to be surplus energy. It shoots the unbound fructose into the bloodstream as triglycerides which starts a chain reaction that spells disaster for the human body.

The human manifestation of that subsequent overload is the ‘spare tire’ many adults sport around their middles. Adults developed these 'fat stores' gradually, coinciding with the time that GE HFCS made its way into the majority of our food. But our children started eating GE HFCS at a very early age, many from birth. They manifest their ‘spare tires’ much more rapidly and at a much younger age -- victims of GE HFCS overdose. That band of body fat is an indicator that metabolically something is going very, very wrong.

Independent science has demonstrated the overdose of isolated fructose alters our regulating hormones. Fructose from GE HFCS fails to increase the production of leptin, a hormone produced by the body's fat cells. Both insulin and leptin are appetite suppressants. They act as signals to the brain to turn down our appetite. In addition the fructose in GE HFCS does not suppress the production of ghrelin, another hormone that increases hunger and appetite. The end result is the body can’t recognize when it’s full, always leaving us wanting more. A perfect storm for food addiction which is no less real than addiction to morphine.