Monday, December 28, 2009

Avoid High Fructose Corn Syrup in a Gluten Free Diet

We have spoken before about healthy diets. There has been mention of what to include and what to avoid but there is a substance I neglected to mention in earlier posts and it deserves your attention.

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is not only unhealthy due to its ill effects on blood sugar and insulin resistance, but during its production mercury residues occur within. It’s estimated that the average U.S. person intakes about 50 gm of HFCS per day. This would equal about 28 mcg/day of ingested mercury!

Thimerasol in injections such as vaccinations and flu shots contain about 25 mcg of mercury per injection. Thimerasol has been removed from many injections due to the concern of mercury and its neurotoxicity. To think that the average American is potentially consuming that amount daily through HFCS is frightening.

What new research points to is that the bioaccumulation of toxins is what is creating much of the toxic load from which we are suffering. Many diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, M.S., ADD and autism, to name a few, have an association with heavy metal toxicity. So while 28 mcg in and of itself doesn’t sound like a lot, when you add that to all the other toxins coming from our environment, the accumulation is overwhelming the tissues of our body,in particular our nervous systems.

I will be speaking more on this topic and other sources of avoidable toxins but in the meantime I encourage you to make this easy and healthy choice – avoid all high fructose corn syrup for you, your children and family.

Visit us at www.RootCauseMedicalClinic.com. If you have questions or need any help, I’m here for you! Call 408-733-0400.

I look forward to hearing from you.

To your good health,
Dr Vikki Petersen, DC, CCN, CFMP

IFM Certified Practitioner

Founder of Root Cause Medical Clinic
Co-author of “The Gluten Effect”

Author of the eBook: “Gluten Intolerance – What You Don’t Know May Be Killing You!”

4 comments:

lbd said...

Thank you! Have you seen the video entitled "The Bitter Truth" about the impact of fructose on the liver? It is available on YouTube. It goes into highly technical detail about how fructose literally destroys your liver, much like alcohol.

I found the reports on mercury in HFCS last year and presented them to my high school anatomy students. They were shocked. Hopefully, if we can get this info out to people, we can prevent a lot of damage. I can't believe the mainstream media did not pick up on those reports.

Thanks for all you do, Dr. Vikki - keep up the good fight!

Laurie

David said...

Thank you so, much...Now I know about this, that how much damage fructose create.
I want to appreciate you that you are giving such a valuable information for the people who are suffering from this problem.
Gluten Free

Anonymous said...

how come heinz ketchup contains high fructose corn syrup and it says on the label it's gluten free?

The Doctors of Root Cause Medical Clinic said...

Dear Anonymous,

High fructose corn syrup is a bad 'food' but it does not contain gluten. Things can be gluten-free but still not good for you.

I hope that clears it up.

Best,
Dr Vikki