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 put [...]
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 foods [...]
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 article [...]