Eat organic… avoid poisoning yourself
In difficult economic times, a payday loan can be a comfort. If your paycheck falls just a bit short of covering your necessary expenses, emergency cash can bridge the gap until your next pay period. Christian Coley of eFluxMedia brings our attention to a frightening development that affects anyone who consumes low-cost food.
As a sweetening agent, few bargain (non-organic) foods are free of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It’s addictive, and it is added unnecessarily to almost everything. The substance has been linked to increased obesity. Now it may be responsible for brain, heart, lung, kidney and immune system disorders (not to mention death), thanks to the discovery of mercury in HFCS.
Mercury… everywhere
According to Coley, nearly half of tested HFCS samples from commercial foods contained mercury in two recent major U.S. studies, the first published in a recent issue of Environment Health and the other conducted by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). The first study found detectable mercury in nine of 20 commercial samples of HFCS, while the second found that one in three of 55 studied brand-name foods contained the toxic substance.
HFCS usually replaces sugar as a sweetener because it is cheaper to use. Based upon a diet of mostly non-organic foods, Americans consume around 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but this was shown to range as high as 80 percent among groups like teenagers. They are consuming mercury, which is a poisonous substance. The Food and Drug Administration must act immediately; food manufacturers who continue to use HFCS should face criminal prosecution. This is something state and federal government should pay attention to, rather than hurting consumers by cracking down on faxless payday loans.
Someone objects to the studies…
That would be the Corn Refiners Association, who says that the studies are outdated. They claim the industry is using a mercury-free version of HFCS now, which does not include the caustic soda ingredient that is made from mercury cells. Your payday loan source hope the truth comes out soon, before one more child is born autistic, with Down’s Syndrome or a deformity. Before anyone else has to die so that food manufacturers can continue to turn a profit.
Related articles
- Studies find mercury in much U.S. corn syrup (msnbc.msn.com)
- I mean, who doesn’t like a little mercury in their high fructose corn syrup? (americablog.com)
- HFCS is even worse thanks to … mercury (gabriellacoleman.org)
This is easily the best information I have seen posted anywhere in a long time. As owners for many years of a natural health clinic my wife and I have seen and heard our share of disasterous results from the health care system. It takes real courage to question your doctor or health care provider before they stick the needle in your body, or give you the magic pill to swallow in hope that it cures whatever ails you. Whats worse is that they don’t have to be responsible for their actions a good deal of the time depending on where you live. Our own two teenagers one male and one female have never been vaccinated for anything. Neither one has EVER taken an antibiotic either so expliain that one to us. They are top athletes, honor students, and are almost never sick. When they are they recover very quickly because their immune systems were allowed to develop as they grew, unlike so many other children whose parents were “scared” into numerous useless vaccinations and other harmful drugs. We were threatened at times by the school board over our refusal to vaccinate our kids. We told them they were not qualified to make that decision for us and that if they were so confident in their drugs working for them than our kids should pose little threat of disease to anyone else. The medical profession has largely become sales people for the drug companies who pay them handsomely for promoting their products. This includes some veterinarians as well who make BIG money selling overpriced drugs for your pets. When will we all wake up and realize what a sham health care has become in North America. In Canada their has been talk of a “national drug program”. I hope to god this colossal waste of taxpayers money does not take place. The only winners will be the shareholders in these powerful companies who continue to lobby governments for their own selfish good while they are controlling the unsuspecting public with their drugs. Why are they allowed to get away with killing people en mass. This is clearly documented. Instead they go after companies who sell natural health products that are of little threat to anyone EXCEPT the drug companies and their profits. I believe that one day the truth will be known in a similar manner as the tobacco companies who lied to us for years. We don’t advertise our own business and never have as the failures that come our way are an endless supply of frustrated clients each with their own story of ineptitude from the health care system they were subjected to. They are ranging from very young to very old, both rich and poor. We even have a number of parents who were told “they will never have kids” by their doctors, well…at least until they detoxified their bodies. Proud and happy parents all now. I urge everyone to watch the video and listen to the sheep sounds at the end because thats what the population has become, and the media has been used at times to help promote this disaster. I would invite everyone to share their thoughts on this whether you agree with me or not. If you agree please alert everyone to the video and urge them to watch it. Thanks!
I work with the Corn Refiners Association and want to point out a serious inaccuracy in the study that came out in Environmental Health that reports high fructose corn syrup contains mercury.
1) These reports are seriously flawed. It would be wrong to conclude that there’s any kind of food risk based on these reports.
2) Even if the research were complete and correct, the mercury levels cited by these reports is far below levels of concern set by the federal government. For example, EPA sets limits for mercury in water at two parts per billion. In comparison, the authors measured levels at parts per trillion in foods with high fructose corn syrup.
3) The reports are also based on outdated information. The high fructose corn syrup industry uses only mercury-free versions of these re-agents.
4) High fructose corn syrup is safe. It contains no artificial or synthetic ingredients or color additives and meets FDA’s requirements for the use of the term ‘natural’.
- FT on behalf of the Corn Refiners Association
Wow, what a debatable subject. Nonetheless, our lives are not. All I know is that we can’t be toying with our health and anything that may pose as a probable threat should be thoroughly and properly analyzed. Another thing I wanted to add is how pricey organic products are. A lot of people have a hard time staying on top of the healthiest goods available because of the lack of money.
hmmmm…..
Even if it is true that the mercury levels are safe in HFCS, the sweetener is like anything else – fine in moderation. The fact is that the American diet is far too rich in it, and we need to promote healthier foods as a nation – we will be better off for it. And the poster at the top is somewhat correct, in that there is documented evidence that antibiotics breeds super bugs, like MRSA, the ever changing flu viruses, even small pox and tuberculosis are making a comeback in resistant strains. An overhaul of the medical industry is in order, for sure.
Are we really to believe the corn refiners association. I would not but my trust in them how can we. The scientists had ads talking about the dangers of HFCS but a few months later they have ads saying a little won’t hurt. Why doesn’t someone post on how the High fructose syrup is made. It is anything but natural.The processing of the HFCS makes MSG. That is one reason why they use it besides it being cheap. See MSG is a Neurotoxin like Mercury. It makes you think the food tastes good. HFCS is a hidden form of MSG. anything that is hydrolyzed or autolyzed makes MSG>