Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Hazardous to Your Health - New York Times

The foisting of high fructose corn syrup on the American public is one of my pet peeves!
Hazardous to Your Health - New York Times: "Our government needs to do much more to control potentially deadly substances — plutonium, anthrax and high-fructose corn syrup.

Nicholas D. Kristof.


O.K., so Osama bin Laden isn't scheming to release corn syrup in the New York subways. But that's because he doesn't need to: Americans are guzzling it themselves — every year, the average American drinks 56 gallons of soda.

The major sweetener in pop is high-fructose corn syrup, which is also found in everything from ketchup to hot dog buns. Americans over the age of 2 get an average of 132 calories a day from high-fructose corn syrup."

1 comment:

hdhindsa said...

Excellent points! I think that there are probably also quite a few other instances of U.S. consumers unwittingly consuming foods and ingredients based upon U.S. agriculture lobbying influences...Reading ingredient labels is key in this regard...

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