Reply #43: Strangely, I just read this [View All]

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from the Center for Science in the Public Interest; the article is entitled Chemical Cuisine: A Guide to Food Additives

http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/additives.pdf

High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).
Sweetener: Soft drinks, many other foods.
This mixture of two sugars (it’s about half fructose, half
glucose) has largely replaced table sugar (sucrose) in soft drinks
and many other foods because it’s cheaper. Despite the urban
myth, it’s not worse for you than sucrose. Like other sugars,
it promotes obesity, tooth decay, and—in people with high
triglycerides—heart disease.

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I subscribe to the Nutrition Action Healthletter, and I think it's pretty hardcore about what is healthy to eat vs. most of the food available to us. In other words, I don't think they're apologists for the food industry. Their descriptions of other harmful additives don't seem to pull any punches. So, they recommend cutting back on HFCS, not avoiding it (as they recommend for several other additives).