While there is a great discussion going on about corn and HFCS, I do want to mention a couple things.
There are baked vegetable chips, natural real vegetables, mostly root vegetables, taro, sweet potato and parsnips (yum), that are available. Yes, considerable starch (complex carbohydrates) and sugars. For example, parsnips become sweeter if left in the ground over winter or stored at cooler temperatures. I don't know the chemical make up of these sugars and that would definitely determine its impact as it is metabolized in the body.
I have had two sources now mentioning that soy will slow your metabolism down through some sort of modification of thyroid function. At least one mentioned that corn too, slows metabolism. That's one reason cattle are fed corn and soy, so their metabolism slows down and they gain weight faster.
That goes the same for us.
Thyroid problems are horrendously under diagnosed because of the many factors that influence the active form of the thyroid hormone. You have to realize that hormones are terribly important in the functioning of our bodies.
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While there is a great discussion going on about corn and HFCS, I do want to mention a couple things.
October 10, 2011 - 3:11amThere are baked vegetable chips, natural real vegetables, mostly root vegetables, taro, sweet potato and parsnips (yum), that are available. Yes, considerable starch (complex carbohydrates) and sugars. For example, parsnips become sweeter if left in the ground over winter or stored at cooler temperatures. I don't know the chemical make up of these sugars and that would definitely determine its impact as it is metabolized in the body.
I have had two sources now mentioning that soy will slow your metabolism down through some sort of modification of thyroid function. At least one mentioned that corn too, slows metabolism. That's one reason cattle are fed corn and soy, so their metabolism slows down and they gain weight faster.
That goes the same for us.
Thyroid problems are horrendously under diagnosed because of the many factors that influence the active form of the thyroid hormone. You have to realize that hormones are terribly important in the functioning of our bodies.
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