If you remember, about a year ago we started a Facebook petition to introduce a tax on foods and beverages containing HFCS. This year, we’re stepping it up a notch and starting a new petition on the official WhiteHouse.gov website! If in the next 30 days the petition gathers over 5,000 signatures, the white house [...]
From an article in the New York Times: “As it happens, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance are the reasons that many of the researchers today studying fructose became interested in the subject to begin with. If you want to cause insulin resistance in laboratory rats, says Gerald Reaven, the Stanford University diabetologist who did much [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup is dirt cheap. Why? Well, let’s look at where your tax money goes. As we already mentioned in our What is HFCS article, it is a well known fact that the US government subsidizes the corn growers of America and heavily taxes the import of table sugar from other countries. How [...]
As you know, we spend a lot of time discussing high fructose corn syrup here on SweetDisguise.com. But we’d also like to help keep everyone informed about the dangers of consuming too much of any kind of sugar. Making the headlines recently is the idea being circulated that food stamps should not be used to [...]
Scooby says, “If it tastes good, spit it out!” Scooby Werkstatt maintains Scooby’s Workshop, a fitness web site focused on diet and exercise. He offers great videos on proper nutrition and great exercise routines. Believe it or not, Scooby is fifty years old and is a completely natural body builder who doesn’t do steroids or [...]
What happens when you a) spend millions of dollars to build a new name, web site, and marketing campaign, in an attempt to spin a innocent new name to try to re-identify your enzymatically altered corn glucose and b) someone on the internet finds out about it? You end up with a sticky mess, that’s [...]
Time’s Healthland is reporting that the Corn Refiners Association wants the change the name of the popular food additive from High Fructose Corn Syrup to “Corn Sugar”. From the article: “High fructose corn syrup — an ingredient in everything from soda to ketchup to pickles — has such a bad reputation that the Corn Refiners Association [...]
Syrup corn. That’s what it should be called. Or maybe we should call it high corn syrup. Because much of what the commodity corn farmers are growing isn’t fit for human consumption. It is really only fit to make high fructose syrup and other highly processed by-products that make a nice tasting, yet which are totally [...]
What’s in your softdrink? Think about it. From the article: “The visual proof is horrifying. That simple can of Arizona Rx Energy drink sports a whopping 345 calories with 83 grams of sugar, equivalent to six — count ‘em, six — cinnamon Pop-Tarts.” Here is the Hall of Shame list of sugary drinks that they [...]
According to a recent New York Times article, the “corn-fructose-is-good-for-you” battle that the Corn Refiners Association is trying so hard to win has just got tougher. Hunt’s ketchup has switched from high fructose syrup to sugar. “ConAgra decided to reformulate one of its biggest brands, replacing the high-fructose corn syrup in Hunt’s ketchup with old-fashioned [...]
We started a facebook petition for introduction of a tax on foods containing high fructose corn syrup. Such a tax would raise the cost of “junk food” that contains HFCS (also known as isoglucose, maize syrup and glucose/fructose syrup), force food manufacturers to start using alternative and safer sweeteners in the foods they produce, and eventually [...]
Huffington Post reported on January 12, 2010 that according to a study published in International Journal of Biological Sciences, genetically engineered corn, which is used in production of corn fructose (HFCS), has been linked to organ failure in rats. In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified [...]
The Future of Food, a documentary available for free on Hulu (in the US only), exposes the dangers of genetically engineered foods like corn and soybeans.
Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published an article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that discusses the 1000% (yes you read that right, 1000%) increase in the average consumption of high [...]
In April 2009, Time magazine published an article summarizing the results of a 12-week study done by the researches at the University of California Davis. The study, according to the article, demonstrated that people drinking corn fructose sweetened beverages with each meal “showed signs of unhealthy changes in their liver function and fat deposits. In [...]
How much should we really trust the high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) industry? While the FDA does not currently regulate corn fructose use in foods, perhaps it should. Not just for the side effects it has from massive consumption, but for its actual production and distribution process. In January 2009, the Washington Post published a [...]
In this video, Connie Bennett, co-author of the book Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life– and How YouCan Get Back on Track discusses the advertisements that the Corn Refiners Association have funded. She says, “Those ads are really, really frightening.” The advertisements try to convince the viewer to believe corn [...]
King Corn is a documentary about growing an acre of corn and trying to follow it through the food system in the U.S. “King Corn tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. As the film unfolds, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends [...]
If you are using formula to feed your child you might want to take a look at the ingredients right now. According to Dr. William Sears article, Corn Syrup in Formula on Parenting.com, high fructose syrup “has no place in infant nutrition.” He goes on to point out that: High Fructose Syrup can make children [...]
It may sound strange, but it is entirely possible a diet of pure corn fructose could severely damage your heart. In 2001, The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup, by Linda Forristal, appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Fall 2001. It [...]