What do you know about corn?

Have you seen the ad on TV on how High Fructose Corn Syrup is supposed to be good for you? Did you believe it?

If you did here are some things to think about. Corn is actually a grain. Like all grains, when eaten it converts to sugar very rapidly in the body, causing a high blood sugar spike. Diabetics might want to think before they eat corn or any corn based product. In a diabetic, corn can actually not only spike the blood sugar, but also make it stay up for a long period of time.

High blood sugar levels can actually cause damage in the blood vessel walls. The body's normal mechanism to fix these cell walls is to utilize cholesterol. While cholesterol is part of this healing process, it also causes a narrowing of the blood vessel because it actually builds up plaque. Then we end up with heart attacks and strokes.

That's enough for you to think about today. More on this tomorrow.