Foods with Fructose Linked to High Blood Pressure
As if you needed any other reason to reduce sugar intake, a study found that the over-consumption of foods with fructose is linked to high blood pressure. Not surprisingly, giant groups who want you to eat more HFCS (the worst kind of sugar) have spoken out against this and other similar studies.
Foods with Fructose and the Link to High Blood Pressure
The study, found in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, says that people who consume more foods with fructose have a greater chance of developing high blood pressure.
Fructose is a natural sugar found in fruit and vegetables, as well as many processed foods containing high-fructose corn syrup. What’s unnatural about it all is the sheer volume of fructose we find in foods in the form of HFCS and just how much of this sweet syrup Americans are taking in.
In the 1950s and 1960s, sucrose was the main source of sugar for Americans. Sucrose is the sweet substance in table sugar made from sugarcane or beets. But with the development of cheap HFCS, that changed dramatically.
Research shows that Americans consume 35 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup each year, although according to Princeton University, the average American consumes 60 pounds of HFCS every single year.
This most recent study found that those participants who took in 74 grams of fructose (the equivalent of about 2.5 sweet drinks), were at a 28% greater risk of blood pressure levels 135/85 or higher and a 77% greater risk of extreme high blood pressure, with levels greater than 160/100.
Soon after the findings were published, the Corn Refiners Association spoke out saying that the researchers overestimated the amount of fructose in the drinks being studied. The researchers denied this.
The American Beverage Association also weighed in, saying the findings, “furthers the confusion and misunderstandings about high fructose corn syrup and sugar-sweetened beverages,” adding that no cause and effect relationship could be established through this particular research methodology.
The researchers agree, to a certain extent, and admit that further research is needed in order to say for certain that foods with fructose caused the high blood pressure and weren’t simply a contributor or linked.
With the addition of HFCS to the American food market, obesity has skyrocketed. And there is little doubt that the fructose in this cheap sugary syrup plays a large role in the growing waistline and declining health of society.
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These studies are worthless. Showing a correlation between to things means NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Probably, 20% of those that had high blood pressure had more female than male children, or maybe they were mostly brunettes, and probably many other correlations could have been made. I don't have any problem understanding someone like Jimmy Holmes. The world is fairly ugly if you look around and see that you are surrounded and dominated by retards.
I went primal by following Mark Sissons "Primal Blueprint," and I have seen my blood pressure finally get under control due to cutting off HFC and grains.
So shill all you want Rick, we know you're poaid to share "your" opinion.
"The researchers agree, to a certain extent, and admit that further research is needed in order to say for certain that foods with fructose caused the high blood pressure …" Uh, Wally, I suppose the researchers are "shills" too, ha? Something must be done to shift procreation in favor of intelligence. The system favors the procreation of dull minds, and it isn't benefitting anyone.
Everyone knows GMO'd HFCS is cause health problems, there doesn't need to be a "study" there needs to be action. Get back to C&H sugar, the real deal. None of us were fat like this in the 70's!!!
Who cares about fat? That's just a product of media brainwashing. Men should be muscular, and woman SHOULD BE FAT. Nothing wrong with fats. Female fats attract, and provide many healthy benefits for women. Every medical study I have read on longevity shows fat women live longer (within reason, probably not if they are 500lbs or something).
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