Deadly Ingredient Hiding in Your Food

The Deadly Ingredient Hiding in Your Food

For breakfast, a lot of folks think they're eating healthy when they enjoy cereal and fruit juice – maybe even some yogurt. They often choose a salad or soup with a sandwich made of lean poultry or meat for lunch.

Dinners are more varied, but they frequently involve a combination of lean meat or poultry with vegetables and some sort of gravy or sauce.Well, it might surprise you, but many of these foods have something in common. Almost all of them contain ingredients made from corn.

No big deal, right? Think again folks! While you probably think of corn as a vegetable, it's also a grain. And it carries a very high glycemic load.

This means just a little bit of it can shoot your blood sugar through the roof. This triggers your pancreas to release insulin, which controls the way your cells store fat. In other words, the more high-glycemic corn (and its byproducts) you eat, the more insulin is released, and the bigger your fat cells get. This can lead you down a dangerous path toward obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Most of the corn in our food supply is tainted. About 86% of the corn grown here in the U.S. contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs). And it's full of dangerous chemicals that should never show up in our food supply. These include things like Formaldehyde Andglyphosate.

If this doesn't worry you, it should!

I'm sure you've heard of Formaldehyde. It's the stuff morticians use to embalm human remains. But it's not something you want in your body while you're still alive. Breathing in as little as three parts per million (ppm) can damage pulmonary function in humans.

According to one analysis, the 2012 Nutritional Analysis: Comparison of GMO Corn versus Non-GMO Corn,

we could be getting as much as 200 ppm of this dangerous chemical in every ear of GMO corn that's grown. And what about Glyphosate? That's the stuff used in the popular weed killer, Roundup. The bulk of GMO corn seeds are "Roundup ready." This means farmers can spray as much Roundup on these crops as necessary to get rid of weeds. As little as 0.7 ppm of glyphosate can cause kidney problems and reproductive difficulties.

Additional research shows it damages DNA, causes cancer and also acts as an endocrine disruptor.But a single ear of GMO corn can contain up to 18 times that amount!Clearly, today's corn and its byproducts aren't something that should be a part of our food supply.Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to steer clear of these additives.