New "Skull and Bones" symbols

If memory serves me correctly, I first saw the “Skull and Bones” symbol on a bottle of iodine my Mother used for our skinned arms and knees so many years ago. The word “Poison” was written right under the menacing symbol. There was not much to be said. The symbol and word “Poison” to our bodies said it all.

If I have appropriately read and understood the contents of the extremely informative diary written by Asinus Asinum Fricat as follows: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/16/1655/34425/231/697433
and the content of the links has forced me to take an early morning pre-dawn drink. I kid you not! I think it’s a celebratory drink due to the fact I feel so much more empowered to deal with my diabetes now. I’m still learning.

This is what I learned:
What are the major sources of fructose?
Fruits and vegetables have relatively small, "normal" amounts of fructose that most bodies can handle quite well. The problem comes with added sugars in the modern diet, the volume of which has grown rapidly in recent decades. The blame has often been pinned to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is made up of 55% fructose and 45% glucose. However, sucrose is half fructose and half glucose. So, HFCS actually doesn't have a whole lot more fructose than "regular" sugar, gram for gram.
High fructose corn syrup has become incredibly inexpensive and abundant, partially due to corn subsidies in the United States. So, really, the problem is more that it has become so cheap that it has crept its way into a great number of the foods we eat every day.

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/fructosedangers.htm

And I found what I consider the new improved modern day symbols of the “Skull and Bones” after I Goggled “fructose”:

Sugar Has Many Disguises
Careful reading of labels is necessary to know how much added sugar you are getting. Sometimes there will be small amounts of many types of sugars, so none of them end up being in the the first few ingredients of the label. Other times, sugar masquerades as apparently more “healthy” ingredients, such as honey, rice syrup, or even “organic dehydrated cane juice”. These are sugar. Sometimes fruit juice concentrates will be used, which sound wholesome, but usually the juices chosen, such as white grape, apple, and pear juices, are among the least nutritious of the juices. By the time they are “concentrated”, very little remains but the sugar.
Here is a list of some of the possible code words for “sugar” which may appear on a label. Hint: the words “syrup”, “sweetener”, and anything ending in “ose” can usually be assumed to be “sugar”. If the label says “no added sugars”, it should not contain any of the following, although the food could contain naturally-occurring sugars (such as lactose in milk).
Corn sweetener
Corn syrup, or corn syrup solids
Dehydrated Cane Juice
Dextrin
Dextrose
Fructose
Fruit juice concentrate
Glucose
High-fructose corn syrup
Honey
Invert sugar
Lactose
Maltodextrin
Malt syrup
Maltose
Maple syrup
Molasses
Raw sugar
Rice Syrup
Saccharose
Sorghum or sorghum syrup
Sucrose
Syrup
Treacle
Turbinado Sugar
Xylose
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/whattoeat/a/sugars.htm

A big hug and Fedora hat tip to Asinus Asinum Fricat. I’ve got a lot of wondering and wandering to do. I know I have to make my small donation today to WAMU. They are very gracious when you make donations to them. (800) 248-8850
As always,
BB
P.S. Is the increased use of fructose one of the reasons our behaviors have become increasingly aggressive and non-human? Our reasoning powers becoming increasingly impaired or at least in sharp contrast to the way humans thought and did things pre-fructose? I am beginning already to wonder as I wander with this new information.