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 fat
High Fructose [...]
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 [...]
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine]
This [...]