Health Scare!

Supposably, diabetes has been around since Biblical days--according to the internet. Hmmm...do I want to believe this is true? No! But what do I know? I know I have lived a healthy life until I started gaining weight when I was married, unhappy and not as active as a single person! Sure, I binged out of unhappiness every once in awhile and I was an emotional eater. But I was still relatively healthy. I hiked, even mountains in the winter as well as those beautiful summer days, I occassionally biked and I walked around town a ton taking landscape photographs...I had low blood pressure and I only went to the General Practitioner as a check-up!

This last year has me fighting against the stream. I have high blood pressure (I call it my Irish temper!) and had some scares with high blood sugar! Not fun! I have been researching diabetes and I believe its prevalence is from High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) aka Corn Syrup (HFCS 55)! HFCS came on the market in the 1970's in America and has infiltrated the beverage and food market! You can find it in breakfast bars, various candies, soda pop, ketchup, sandwich cookies and just about anything you can think of! It leads to diabetes! "...it's widely agreed that it contributes to obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease." (Google)

It stops your pancreas from producing the hormone insulin that allows glucose from the bloodstream to enter into your body's cells. If your cells are denied glucose this leads to weightloss and potential health problems!