There is one common “all natural” food that is hidden in just about everything you eat. And unless you know about this food and eliminate it from your diet, it will make it almost impossible for you to lose weight that accumulates around the middle as belly fat or love handles.
That food is High Fructose Corn Syrup, also know as HFCS.
Corn Syrup – the “Not-So-Sweet Surprise”
You’ve probably seen the “Sweet Surprise” ads saying corn syrup is wonderful, all natural and doesn’t cause weight gain. There is a surprise about corn syrup – how bad it is for your weight loss efforts! What those ads don’t tell you is that when you consume high fructose corn syrup, your body doesn’t register that you’ve eaten anything, so it doesn’t allay your hunger at all – it actually makes you hungrier. How does it do that?
HFCS actually inhibits secretion of two hormones called leptin, which is a fat burning hormone, and gherin, which tells your body that you have eaten and you are full. So it encourages your body to store fat and it makes you hungry!
And it’s not natural at all. High fructose corn syrup is created by chemically bonding molecules of fructose and glucose together. Caustic soda and hydrochloric acid are only two of the chemicals used to produce HFCS. The production process leaves traces of mercury in HFCS.
HFCS is Hard to Avoid
Sadly, HFCS is hidden in virtually all processed foods. It might not be too surprising to see it is used in foods that are sweet such as breakfast cereal, snacks, cookies, pastries, fruit juice drinks, and sodas. But it’s in foods you wouldn’t expect – bread, lunch meat, condiments, diet products, just about everything.
If high fructose corn syrup is so bad for us, why is it in everything we eat? The main reason is that it is inexpensive. Not only is it cheap to produce but corn farmers receive government subsidies encouraging them to grow corn for its production.
There have been studies showing that the time Americans really started getting fat correlated with the time that high fructose corn syrup was introduced, in the late 1970’s.
As a small aside, did you know there is a black market for Coke made in Mexico? That’s right, Coke as in Coca Cola. They still sweeten it with sugar there, so some people from the states bring it back from Mexico so they can drink “the real thing”.
Eliminate HFCS and See What Happens
When I decided to cut HFCS out of my diet, not only did I lose weight. I specifically lost a lot of belly fat. Belly fat that I’d been trying to lose for years! I also found I wasn’t hungry all the time like I used to be. I experienced what some experts say – that eating high fructose corn syrup makes you hungrier.
So why not try eliminating high fructose corn syrup from your diet and see what happens. You may find you start lose weight and start to get rid of belly fat or love handles by just making this change to your diet.