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Are the Ingredients in Your Food Stealing from Your Body?
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7. High Fructose Corn Syrup
Although this ingredient could be included with sugar, since it is a sweetener, but it is so damaging that we decided to list it separately. HFCS is sometimes referred to as corn sugar, corn syrup, or corn sweetener, and you will find it in almost as many places as you will sugar: sodas, yogurt, fruit juice, cereal, cookies, cakes, condiments, and most packaged foods. HFCS steals zinc, magnesium, and chromium from the body. In 2011, the USDA says that the average American consumed about 131 calories of HFCS every single day.
This sweeter has about the same effect on the body as sugar, including the overgrowth of bacteria that robs the body of nutrients. Unlike sugar, however, this sweetener doesn’t trigger the “I’m full” signal, leptin, in the brain, which makes overeating much easier. HFCS can lead to hair loss, elevated triglyceride levels, diarrhea, obesity, and an impaired immune function.
8. Added Pectin
You have probably heard that pectin is a good source of fiber, and that is true, but not when it has been added to certain foods. Pectin is often added in milk drinks, yogurt, jam, jelly, and fruit juice.
Added pectin will rob your body of lutein, lycopene, and beta-carotene. Although pectin does move through the body like fiber, it also is something like glue, sticking to things as it travels. Apples and other natural foods that contain pectin are fine, but the added amounts of pectin in processed foods is excessive and it pulls important nutrients such as lycopene and other important cancer fighting antioxidants with it.
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