By skipping foods with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), you will avoid other added sugars, listed on labels under names such as fruit juice concentrate, evaporated cane juice, malt, molasses and caramel. Sugar, no matter what name it goes by, is still calories with no nutritional value. (There's too little natural sugar in whole food - fructose in fruit, for example - to affect insulin response.) You'll find HFCS in many surprising places, from ketchup and pasta sauce to English muffins, cereal, and yogurt. But we get about two-thirds of it from sweetened beverages such as sodas, iced tea, lemonade, and fruit drinks. 'Reducing the intake of high-calorie beverages, sweetened with either HFCS or other sugars, would be a good step forward in the fight against the obesity epidemic,' says George A. Bray, M.D., a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre of Louisiana State University who published research linking HFCS to obesity.
Once you start checking labels, you may find that cutting out man-made fat and sugar means saying 'no' to many processed foods. Don't despair - there are good alternatives on store shelves.
Of course, you could buy the ingredients and cook that pasta sauce yourself. You'll know exactly what's in it, and - it will probably taste better.
Early research on glyconutrients (the necessary sugars) suggests that by adding glyconutrients to the human diet there is an increase in production in one's bone marrow stem cell production.
