Supermarket spies: How the Government plans to use loyalty card data to snoop on the eating habits of 25 million shoppers

“People who buy too much alcohol, fatty foods or sugary drinks would be targeted with 'tailored' health advice under plans being considered by the Coalition.”

The problem is not alcohol, fatty foods or sugary drinks. The problem is the very toxic high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which was invented in 1957 as a cheap substitute for sugar, and is now in almost everything, poisoning mankind.

By 1975 the big food corporations (Big Ag) were adding HFCS to food in order to boost their profits. By 1985 it was in half of all food and beverages in a typical grocery store. By 1990 it was in 95% of all items, and was being made from genetically modified corn. HFCS triggered the obesity epidemic. Obesity occurs in all nations where the food contains HFCS (as opposed to ordinary sugar). In 1970, around 15 percent of the U.S. population met the definition for obesity. Today it is over 30 percent -- and climbing.

The average American consumes 60 pounds of toxic HFCS each year. Rats with access to HFCS gain significantly more weight than rats with access to ordinary sugar, even when their overall caloric intake is the same. 

Reason: HFCS deactivates leptin and ghrelin, two hormones produced in your pancreas and stomach lining. Leptin tells the hypothalamus in your brain that you are satisfied. You have eaten enough. HFCS turns this hormone off, so that you eat more and more. The dopamine receptors in your brain become numbed, and so you continue to eat still more.

The other hormone, ghrelin, tells your hypothalamus that you are hungry. Natural sugar deactivates it. HFCS does not. So you eat and eat.

Ghrelin also plays a role in the functioning of your brain’s hippocampus, which governs spatial navigation, plus the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory. HFCS distorts the normal function of ghrelin. And since the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage from Alzheimer's disease, HFCS contributes to Alzheimer's disease.

Furthermore, sugar can be burned quickly, but HFCS is immediately stored as fat, especially in the belly. Hence the diabetes epidemic. 

HFCS also causes a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides. Even if you eat a high-fat diet, you will not become fat like you do from eating HFCS. 

With HFCS, Big Ag makes you addicted to junk food, while the medical profession profits from your obesity, your diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's and so on.

Meanwhile beekeepers stopped feeding sugar to bee colonies, and started using the cheaper HFCS, which is toxic to bees. The result is a global epidemic of Colony Collapse Disorder. The world’s honeybees are dying so that corporations can make some extra profit, and so Monsanto can sell its Franken-maize.

Because corporations are all-powerful, no one dares mention the cause of the problem, which is high fructose corn syrup.

If this seems simplistic to you, then read up on it. Several people have posted articles about this here at WUFYS. In some foods, HFCS is a source of mercury, a known neurotoxin. And HFCS is now in everything.

Likewise, corporations ceased putting natural fats in foods, and started using artificial fats and oils (e.g. margarine) because they were cheaper to make. The medical profession adjusted its dogma accordingly, so that corporations could make extra profits, saying artificial oil and fats (e.g. trans-fats) were good for you, and natural fats and oils were bad. The exact opposite of the truth.

NOTE: a lot of nutritionists are aware of all this, but they make a serious error. They become manic, saying we must avoid fructose all costs. This is ridiculous, because they claim that natural fresh fruit is bad for you! The reality is that fructose is fine, and sucrose (table sugar) is okay if you don’t eat very much. The problem is HFCS, which combines the two sugars into a toxic imbalance. And it’s made from Monsanto’s Franken-corn.

Both sucrose (natural table sugar) and HFCS contain the simple sugars fructose and glucose, but whereas table sugar is a 50-50 mix of the two, HFCS is 55 percent fructose and 42 percent glucose, and is combined with larger sugar molecules called higher saccharides. The result is a toxic imbalance.

Also, every fructose molecule in natural sugar (sucrose) from beets or sugar cane is bound to a corresponding glucose molecule, and must go through an extra metabolic step before it can be utilized. In HFCS, by contrast, the fructose molecules are free and unbound, ready for absorption and utilization. Consequently it deactivates your leptin hormone.

The British government ignores all this, and wants to punish parents if their kids don’t eat enough “healthy” food – when in fact, HFCS is in just about every processed food in the store (which is 95% of foods). It is very difficult to avoid, unless you shun all processed items. (Any food product that has more than two or three ingredients is a processed product, and one of the ingredients will almost invariably be HFCS.)

The British government dares not mention this, because Big Ag wants its cheap toxic sweetener.

One other thing: 75% of all processed items in the supermarket consist of various chemical arrangements and re-arrangements of corn and soy, both of which are genetically modified by Monsanto.

Just give them a fake name and phone number for your loyalty card and pay in cash.  Works for me.