May 2010 Newsletter
“Get Rid of Fructose to Lose Your Gut
and End Your Colitis”
The chief villain that keeps you gut big, and packs you liver with fat, and keeps you bowels inflamed is the simple sugar fructose. It is found in nature in small amounts in fruits and vegetables. In this form, and in small amounts, it is actually beneficial. It also occurs naturally, but in large amounts, in honey. If you have a big but, fatty liver, colitis, or Crohn’s disease, you will have to avoid the fructose in honey altogether.
A couple centuries ago, we learned how to use sugarcane, which is half glucose and half fructose, as a sweetening agent. But more recently, commercial food interests and food processors have developed a way to produce sweet syrups from corn, as in corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The fructose content of the HFCS used to sweeten soft drinks, sodas, and commercially sweetened products, such as puddings, can be as high as 90%!
HFCS is used in most processed and fast foods. It is primarily HFCS that has caused a skyrocketing increase in the amount of sweeteners Americans consume, and thus a huge increase in the intake of fructose in the last 20-30 years. In fact, Americans now consume, on average, close to 75 pounds of fructose annually, or more than 90 grams a day! That is the equivalent of 15 cups of sliced carrots, or 24 peaches! A healthy diet consists of 5-15 grams of fructose daily.
Fructose is so deadly because it bypasses the normal digestive processes and is quickly turned to fat and stored in your liver and gut. And as stated, Americans now consume huge amounts of fructose daily in the form of sodas, soft drinks, ice cream, cakes, pies, pastries, cookies, candies, puddings, store-bought salad dressings and even ketchup. And it is this deadly increase in fructose that is a main cause of abdominal obesity (a fat gut), diabetes and fatty liver.Aside from causing these problems, we have recently discovered that fructose is also colon (gut) irritant. In fact, many (or even most) colitis and Crohn’s suffers can achieve long-term relief from their inflamed guts simply by eliminating fructose in the form of HFCS and honey from their diet.
So if you suffer with abdominal obesity, a fatty liver, diabetes or insulin resistance, or any form of colitis, eliminate HFCS from your life. And keep the natural fructose intake down also. Eliminate honey. And avoid high fructose fruits like tropical fruits and bananas. That leaves you with plenty of fruits, including all berries, melons, citrus, peaches, pears, apples, plums, nectarines, cherries, apricots, and more. Even large servings of the will only amount to 5-7 grams per day and the fructose in fruits is absorbed slowly as nature intended.
HFCS is a boon to the processed and fast food industries. It has lined our shelves with dead, disease-causing non foods, many of which would not spoil or rot for months or years! However, it is not something that the human body is designed to eat, digest, or metabolize. It is the struggle to digest HFCS that is a major cause of the fat gut, fatty liver, diabetes, colitis, and endless suffering from chronic inflammation. Just avoid it altogether!
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