The Online Journal of Melissa Mularski

In my ongoing effort towards a healthier life for me and my family, I’m avoiding purchasing certain foods. Ironically, most of the foods on this list are the ‘convenient’ foods parents purchase for their kids. I don’t know why the food industry thinks our kids should be loaded with heart-clogging fat and cholesterol and dangerous high fructose corn syrup. But maybe if enough of us get with it and stop buying their dangerous products, they’ll start looking for healthier processing alternatives.

Additives Legend

• Ch - Cholesterol
• HFCS - High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Sat Fat - Saturated Fats
• Sodium - high in sodium
• Sugar - high in Sugar
• Trans Fat - Trans Fats
• TMBI - Too many bad ingredients. Much better, healthier alternatives available.

• Gatorade — HFCS
• Imitation Maple Syrups (Pancake Syrups) — HFCS
• Kellogg’s brand products — most contain HFCS, TMBI
• Kool-Aid Bursts Drinks — Sugar
• Kraft Cheese Singles — TMBI
• Kraft Macaroni & Cheese – TMBI
• Hershey’s Syrups — HFCS
• Pillsbury brand foods (HFCS, Saturated Fat, Trans Fat)
• PowerAde (Coca-Cola) — HFCS
• Tootsie Rolls — Trans Fat

Resources

• High-Fructose Corn Syrup on Wikipedia
• Soda Warning? High-fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Diabetes, New Study Suggests (Aug 23, 2007)
• What is Crystalline Fructose? (Mar 28, 2007)
• High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Is it Sabotaging your Diet? (Sep 26, 2006)

  

• Why is Corn Syrup in So Many Foods? HFCS Can Block Brain From Knowing What You Eat (WMTW Channel 8, Portland, Oregon) (May 25, 2007)
• High Fructose Corn Syrup May Be An Invisible Factor In Obesity (KDSK NewsChannel 5, St. Louis, Missouri) (Nov 28, 2006)
  Excerpt: But the report does say “there is a distinct likelihood that the increased consumption of HFCS in beverages may be linked to the increase in obesity.”Klein takes the biology a step further.“Fructose goes directly to the liver after you eat it and it stimulates the production of fat in the liver and can cause fatty liver, it can lead to fatty liver. Fatty liver we now know is a major problem associated with obesity.”“I’d never heard of fatty liver disease,” said Maggie Rodgers. But Rodgers’ liver became so scarred from non-alcoholic cirrhosis related to her obesity that she needed a liver transplant in 2004.That type of cirrhosis — called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) — is now the most common liver disease in the country, with five percent of people affected, the majority of them obese. Rodgers still can’t believe her liver was damaged because of her diet.In the time since the transplant, she’s lost 70 pounds.
• Trans Fat now listed with Saturated Fat and Cholesterol on the Nutrition Facts Label
• Trans fat on Wikipedia
• Super Size Me

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