There was an online discussion about high fructose corn syrup at a forum I hang on. There was a lot of commentary on how much of it is in so many things we eat. One comment was: “No matter so many people are so fat!”

Here’s my response to that; and it leads to some changes you can incorporate into a more healthy diet. Not strictly ‘health nut’ or ‘fitness nut’ stuff; but real life, quality of life, rest of your life common sense eating habit. Quickie statement that defines it: “Processed foods are no good. At all. Taste good? Maybe. Past that? NOTHING.”

High fructose corn syrup gets you fat? You’ve got it. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg, literally. Artificial sweeteners are even more evil and dangerous and all these things added to a more sedentary lifestyle = big problems.

It’s all such a mess that it’s overwhelming to even try to grasp, let alone deal with on a personal level. HFCS, and even just corn, are almost in everything a large majority of the population in the US eats everyday. Remembering that the simple adage of ‘all things in moderation’, even if you don’t mean to eat corn, some form of it is in something you ate yesterday, today and tomorrow if you are the average American.

Try removing anything with HFCS in it, anything with the words ‘partially hydrogenated’ in it, and anything listed with ‘bleached’ or ‘enriched’ (bleaching flour removes nutrients of wheat, so by law it must be ‘enriched’) flour from your diet. (Aka ‘processed‘ foods).

I’d guess that anyone would have to make major changes to what they currently eat.

It’s amazing what we call food.

My wife calls the average American diet as ‘eating for taste’; I call it eating for death. (Gross overstatement to make a point, but it’s my opinion).

Remove all that for a few weeks and tell me you don’t feel MUCH better.

Add in some form of regular exercise on top of that? You won’t believe how good you actually can feel.