The other day I’m at Walgreens doing a little shopping. I’m really thirsty and have a coupon for the Arizona tea drinks…those green cans/bottles of green tea flavored with honey. Well, they have a new bottle for Pomegranate Green Tea and I know that pomegranate has a plethora of health benefits, so as an alternative to just water this time, I pick up a bottle.
Now, Pomegranates are literally packed with antioxidants, vitamins, folic acid and other healthy stuff. You mix that with the benefits of Green Tea and you should have a great healthy alternative to water…
…then I read the ingredients…the second ingredient is High Fructose Corn Syrup!!! What is so bad about that you ask?
In Ultra Metabolism written by Mark Hyman, M.D., he explaines why the fructose in high-fructose corn syrup is different from that in ordinary sugar.
The digestion, absorption and metabolism of fructose differ in significant ways from those of regular sugar. Table sugar, as we know it, is a combination of glucose and fructose and is known as sucrose. Glucose is the basic sugar the body uses for energy and metabolism – one of the key building blocks of all carbohydrates and often found as part of other slowly absorbed sugars found in beans and whole grains.
Fructose is also one of those building blocks, found in nature mostly in fruit, where it is packaged along with fiber and an abundance of protective nutrients. But fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion and the consequent increase in leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells that tells your brain that you are full, which reduces appetite. This isn’t such a problem when you eat fructose the way nature intended it to be eaten, in the form of fruit. The is because when you eat fruit, the amount of fructose you ingest is significantly lower than in sweetened beverages, and the metabolic effects of it ar different because the increased intake of fiber, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and antioxidants helps slow absorption and improve metabolism.
However, when fructose is processed into high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), it is absorbed more quickly than regular sugar and enters your cells without any help. It doesn’t require the help of insulin the way glucose does. Once inside the cell, it becomes an uncontrolled source of carbon (acetyl-CoA) that is then made into cholesterol and triglycerides. Basically, that means that eating HFCS makes your cholesterol level shoot straight up and causes problems with your liver that slow down your metabolism even more. It actually produces a fatty liver and is the major cause of abnormal liver function tests in this country. Also, HFCS is probably the biggest reason for the increase in cholesterol levels we have seen in our society over the last twenty years. Try cutting out HFCS, and see how fast your triglycerides and cholesterol drop!
In fact, none of the normal controls on appetite is triggered when you eat foods or beverages containing high-fructose corn syrup. When you metabolize glucose, your brain normally gets the message that you are full. That doesn’t happen as readily with HFCS. You just stay hungry and keep eating more sugar or HFCS, which continues to fuel this cycle. This has been shown to lead to increased appetite, calorie intake and weight gain as well as high cholesterol and high blood sugar.
What does all this mean for Yoli? Well, our blastcaps will not containg HFCS. We will now have a healthy alternative to water!
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