Some Health Food Are Actually Junk Food - Be Wary!
You will have seen a totally new lot of advertisements online and on television trying to revamp the poor image of high fructose corn syrup. They are basically attempting to promote this fast food additive as “healthy”.
The advertising campaigns don’t come right out and make the claim that high fructose corn syrup is “health food”, but they do attempt to get clever and fool folk into assuming that it is not bad for your healthiness. In fact, they make these misleading claims :
“It’s all natural”
“It’s no worse for you than table sugar”
“It’s made from corn”
“It has the same calories as table sugar”
As you can see, these adverts are attempting to cheat us into thinking that HFCS isn’t so bad after all… I mean, they do say that it’s “all natural” and “made from corn”. These ads are pure sleaze!
In my opinion, these ads are highly unethical. For one, as if our country, and the world actually, wasn’t already enduring an obesity pandemic, as well as climbing deteriorative illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Now, they are trying to complicate matters by fooling trusting folk into assuming that high fructose corn syrup is somehow healthy. In the meantime, as society and our children get fatter and more unhealthy, they are lining their pockets with huge profits since HFCS is in the bulk of processed food.
As for their claim that HFCS is “no worse for you than sugar”… I am not even going to discusss any of the science about how HFCS affects the leptin and insulin process in your body, your blood sugar process, appetite levels, etc. Instead, i want to make a more important point :
Who cares if HFCS is “no worse for you than sugar”… Because sugar is one of the worst things you can consume in your body anyway, so it isn’t even a valid argument!
The point you need to get is that if you’d like to be lean and healthy for life, you should be minimizing, or maybe getting rid of all sugar and high fructose corn syrup. In fact, most processed food should be eliminated altogether if you would like to be serious about getting lean.
As for their claim that HFCS is “all-natural”… Do not even get me started! It’s just a ridiculous statement to begin with. I do not care if you call it “natural” or synthetic, the bottom line is that it’s a highly processed, refined substance that makes you fat!
So the next time you’re thinking about drinking that will of soda, or eating that candy bar or cupcakes, just think about how that’s only going directly against your attempts to lose body fat and can even lead to other health Problems in excess.
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