From Dr Mercola - reduce your fructose intake and reduce your blood pressure

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This ia a rather contrarian if no a renegade view on reducing blood pressure,  While he also recommends exercise, other food intakes, the main thesis of Mercola is to reduce fructose intake to reduce blood pressure. He also recommends breast feeding of infants (vs formula milk) as the infants who are breast fed for 12 months have less risk of developing high blood pressure.disease.

Now going back to fructose. Those who have high fructose intake of 74 grams or more (the equivalent of 2.5 cans of sugary drinks) have 77% chance of developing high blood pressure.   High insulin level  = high blood pressure

Logic:

1.  High insulin level causes the excretion of magnesium.  Magnesium goes out with the urine.  Magnesium causes muscles to relax.  With low levels of magnesium, muscles ,especially of blood vessels constrict, lessening free flow of blood thus elevating blood pressure.

How increased consumption of sugary drinks contribute to hyperurecemia and gouty arithritis?

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Wikipedia on hyperurecemia


From WiseGeek


 

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This site made earlier post attributing to increased consumption of alcohol and softdrinks as culprit for hyperurecemia (elevated uric acid level in the blood)  We normally point to increase consumption of purines contained in vegies high and protein, fish and meat products as the cause.  But sugary drinks, we do not know contribute to hyperurecemia.   They softdrinks, sugary drinks are the silent/unknown culprit.

On softdrinks:   Let me copy paste from Wikipedia the reason/logic as to how and why sugary drinks

1/2 cup of cherries a day drive gout attacks away

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From Dr. Mercola archives.

Did you know that 1/2 cup cherries a day, or equivalent of 12 cherries, reduce the risk of gouty arthiritis attack by 30%.

What is the primary cause of gout in the modern society - purines from protein?  No its mostly from fructose  (or HFCS)  from softdrinks and fruit juices in the market.  There are fruits with less fructose such as strawberries and blackberries.  Grapes, oranges, pineapple have high fructose content.

Also drink plenty of pure water to wash away uric acid.

Cherries, low fructose fruits, pure water, keep gout away

Obesity will be a big problem in US by 2030?

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From Dr. Mercola archives

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for American Health predicts that half of the US population will be obese .  That is only 12 years from now.

That will mean $48.00 billion additional health care costs because of  7.9 million new cases of diabetes, 5 million of chronic heart diseases and  400,000 cancer cases, all due to to obesity

All of these can be avoided by:  exercise, sufficient sleep, sufficient exposure to sunshine, emotional health and balancing, and proper nutrition.

And what is the cause of obesity?   The fat burning switch which can be turned on by fructose.  Taking fructose, causing rise in fat, and uric acid.

In order not to turn on the fat switch, one should avoid fructose.   Read more

The Popular Food That's Just as Damaging as Alcohol and Goes Straight to Fat

Can you guess what food is this?

From Dr.Mercola Magazine Sept 9, 2012

What is this?  It is fructose

It shares the same characteristic as alcohol;

l.  Like alcohol, it is only metabolized at the liver;

2.  Fructose, like alcohol undergoes Maillard reaction which produces superoxide free radicals, and with byproducts of ethanol (alcohol) as a byproduct;

3.By stimulating the brain (to produce instant sweet effect);  fructose creates habituation and dependence.

Be careful when taking your junk food, cakes or softdrinks;  they may contain fructose which is just as harmful as alcohol

Substitute sugar:

1.  Dextrose (pure glucose) that may be used directly by your body and

2.  Stevia

Fwd: The Toxin So Dangerous It's Causing Catastrophic Birth Defects

Toxicity in GM Foods.

                                    


                              


                 


This feed is about ill effects of  Genetically Modified foods.  The example given is that of Argentina.  The land devoted to soy, which is a major export, accounting for $16 billion a year is 19 million hectares which is 50% of total areable land in Argentina..  98% of soy beans in Argentina is GM.

It is not just about having a pest resistant plant.  The round up ready soy is resistant vs pest and glyphosphate spraying.   The fertile pampas of Argentina is just planted to soy. When you spray gllyphosphate, you kill every other living plant, except the GM glyphosphate resistant plant (I understand Monsanto did the same for Dole pineapple.  No other plants grow in Dole plantations in Mindanao.  Is the Dole pineapple a GM plant)

                                      
                            Glyphosphate weed/plant killer

                     
                       Herbicide (glyphosphate) spraying

Food for today, toxins and cancer for tomorrow.

The GM in Argentina results in l00 deformed infants every year.  The ill effects of GM is reported by Andres Carrasco, an embryonic specialist.

Eating the GM soy results in having children having so much estrogen that they grow breasts.

Spraying glycophosphate resuts in the same serious side effects:  dizziness, allergic reaction, swelling in the mouth, and general feeling of body malaise.

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Fructose Malady

Another post here is interesting.  What attacks the liver like alcohol.  The long analysis of Dr. Mercola points to fructose as being harmful.  He has a graph that shows that for every l20 calories of fructose or alcohol (ethanol) 40 calories  produce adverse effects.  These toxin attack the liver.  Compare this to the effect of the use of glucose which produce merely 1 calorie of adverse effect


                 
                 

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