it was Heinz 57 that caused
inflammation in my right shoulder and pain that came on so sudden and to such a
degree that I was visibly uncomfortable. You wonder what I mean by this.
Read on to see how bad hidden ingredients, or not so hidden ingredients,
are for my body.
I had been eating
"clean" for 3 1/2 weeks. I eliminated all sugar (real and
artificial), all gluten, all potatoes, rice, and whole corn, and 99% of all
dairy. (I cheat and put about a tablespoon of processed shredded cheddar cheese
on my egg beaters. And I use parmesan cheese on my zucchini fries.)
I had been careful with reading the ingredient list on everything I was
buying and eating. I eliminated a bunch of food from the house that I
knew contained sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and gluten. We have two
pantries. One is a very large walk-in pantry and the other one is a large
double door closet style pantry. I cleaned out the pantries and donated a
boatload of food to our school food pantry and then gave away all of our opened
food like pancake mixes, bbq sauces, etc.... to a local family I'm tutoring
for. All of our food now fits solely in the closet pantry and in our
kitchen cabinets. The huge walk-in pantry now houses all of my kitchen
equipment. There's also plenty of room in the closet pantry. Nearly
everything we buy now goes in the fridges or the freezers. We have two
refrigerators, one in the garage and one in the kitchen (duh).
One of our favorite quick meals
in the past was Sloppy Joes. I had donated our canned mixes the week
before, but really was in the mood for them this past Monday. I found a
recipe online and the only thing I'd need to eliminate was the 2 tbsp of brown
sugar it called for. No problem, right? Think again.
I call Molly on my way home from
my tutoring job and tell her to brown the ground turkey, and chop up some
onions and green peppers, and make a garden salad so when I got home we could
make the mix quick and eat within 5 minutes. We had a busy night of back
to back basketball practices and Joe was away on business for the week. I
walked in the door and looked up the recipe again and it called for minced
garlic, 3/4 cup ketchup, a dash of Worcestershire sauce, 2 tbsp of brown sugar,
1 tsp Dijon mustard, salt and pepper to taste, and 1 cup of water. So, I
tell her to get all the stuff out, sans the brown sugar. She ran out of
ketchup and needed some more. I grabbed a bottle of Heinz 57 from my
supply in the pantry and looked at the ingredient list for the first time in my
entire life. I had NO FREAKING CLUE that high fructose corn syrup and
corn syrup were the 2nd and 3rd ingredients in ketchup. I told her to
just use it and I'd go shopping later in the week to see if there is a HFCS
free ketchup in market. It wasn't a big deal, so I thought. We ate
a few minutes later and we headed off to basketball with my book in hand,
papers to grade, and reports to write. This was about 6:45 p.m.
At 8:30 p.m. I'm sitting in the
gym with my book and I notice an all to familiar pain come on in my right
shoulder. It's this stabbing, throbbing pain under my shoulder blade.
If I can imagine what arthritis feels like, it's this nagging, painful
ache. It doesn't stop and radiates into my back and neck. I can literally
point to the exact location on my back where the pain is starting from under my
shoulder blade. Of course, my first thought was, what the heck did I do
to my shoulder? All I have been doing for the past hour and a half is
sitting around working on reports, my grade book, and reading. What the
heck could I have done? Then it dawned on me! It had to have been
the HFCS from the ketchup that caused this inflammation. I want to add
that I had absolutely ZERO, AND I MEAN ZERO, pain in my body for about 2 weeks.
On a scale from 1 - 10 my pain was a one. My pain, not even 2 hours
after eating the ketchup loaded with HFCS was a 4. This stuff is for
real!
I got home that night and
researched HFCS in Dr. Mark Hyman's book, The Blood Sugar Solution.
Check this exert out from his book:
"High doses of
fructose (HFCS) have been proven to literally punch holes in the intestinal
lining, allowing nasty by-products of toxic gut bacteria and partially
digested food proteins to enter your bloodstream and trigger INFLAMMATION.
Naturally occurring
fructose in fruit is
part of a complex web of nutrients and fiber and doesn't exhibit the same biological effects as
the high fructose found in corn sugars." page 80.
SAY WHAT?!!!!! I literally
practically fell out of bed! I didn't need any more proof than this.
I have clearly experienced this myself that evening. And, it's part
of what I had been experiencing all the times before. I literally
poisoned my body Monday night by ingesting HFCS. Hello, that shit pokes
holes in your intestinal lining! No wonder why I've been suffering from
so much muscle and joint pain since I was in my 20's. (Ironically, it'd
get better when I was eating healthier ....some of the time, but not all of the
time.) And we wonder why cancer rates are so freaking high in America?!
The standard American diet is loaded with HFCS and all the other crap
that does the same exact freaking thing. Maybe if we didn't poison our
body with foods that POKE HOLES IN OUR INTESTINES WHICH ALLOW ALL THAT SHIT (LITERALLY)
TO FLOOD OUR BLOODSTREAM, maybe our cancer rates would go down.
My shoulder pain still isn't 100%
gone. It's been about a 2 the past two days. It's a dull annoyance
at this point, but it's still present.
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