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Michael Pollan: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Not Necessarily Worse Than Sugar

Posted 12.28.2011

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When Michael Pollan talks about the food industry, people listen. As the author of best-selling books like In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dilem...

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What's In A Name: High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Corn Sugar

Organic Authority.com | Posted 12.01.2011

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Organic Authority.com

Despite urgings from the FDA to the corn industry to discontinue using the term "corn sugar" in place of "high fructose corn syrup," at least two corn industry websites are still using the term.

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Edible Radio Episode 101: Kitchen Sync with Kristin Richmond

Edible | Posted 11.30.2011

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Edible

Edible Radio host and publisher of Edible Santa Fe, Kate Manchester, talks to Revolution Foods CEO and co-founder Kristin Richmond. Revolution Foo...

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Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Really Dangerous?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.04.2011

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Deepak Chopra

In recent years, one particular processed food ingredient, known as high-fructose corn syrup, has been singled out as a possible health risk.

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The Not-So-Sweet Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 07.16.2011

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Mark Hyman, MD

The current media debate about the benefits (or lack of harm) of high fructose corn syrup in our diet misses the obvious.

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Sugar Farmers Sue Corn Processors For Rebranding HFCS To 'Corn Sugar'

AP | By SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 06.29.2011

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The sugar industry is seeking some sweet revenge. A group of sugar farmers and refiners have filed a lawsuit against several corn pr...

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Kosher Coke Is Almost the Real Thing

Mark Strausman | Posted 06.19.2011

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Mark Strausman

I would feel special that Coke would make a special beverage just for my people, but unfortunately this all comes down to money.

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Women Farmers: Nourishing Body and Soil

Wendy Gordon | Posted 05.28.2011

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Wendy Gordon

Women think on a whole systems level which is why I'm impressed though not surprised to learn that women are running more farms and ranches, operating more land and producing a greater value of agricultural products than they were five years ago.

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How the Cancun Conference Can Succeed With -- or Without -- China

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Corbin Hiar

Yesterday some 15,000 delegates, business leaders, activists and journalists gathered in Cancun to kick off the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cha...

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The Omnipresence of Corn

Linda Larrowe Bergersen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Larrowe Bergersen

It's more than likely that most every meal eaten throughout the day will contain a form of corn. And because most of that corn is processed, we would be better off if not being so frequently exposed to it.

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Mario Batali: "Listen To What The Earth And Scientists And Farmers Are Telling Us" About Our Food

Mario Batali in The Wall Street Journal | MARIO BATALI | Posted 05.25.2011

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What lies ahead in the future of food? I don't think we'll be eating high-tech food pills anytime soon, thankfully. But with problems like collapsing ...

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Hey Hipsters: Mexican Coke's Real Sugar Might Be a Myth

healthland.time.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to a recent study Mexican Coke, which people thought to be superior to American Coke because it uses real cane sugar in place of high fructo...

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High Fructose Corn Syrup Name Change: Good, Bad Or In Between?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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David Katz, M.D.

The perception that high fructose corn syrup is uniquely bad is allowing manufacturers to gain the glow of a halo simply by abandoning it for the sake of sugar. This gives inappropriate credit.

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Whoops: Corn Sugar Already Taken

Marion Nestle at the Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to alert reader Glen for pointing out that the FDA already has a regulation for Corn Sugar in the Code of Federal Regulations, under food subst...

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Corn Sugar or High Fructose Corn Syrup? Which Is Worse?

Susan Yager | Posted 11.17.2011

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Susan Yager

This is a trick question, because they are both the same cheap, nutritionally empty sweetener. But the Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the FDA to allow them to change their name.

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Goodbye High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hello Corn Sugar (Signed, Corn Industry)

AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar. The Corn Refiners Association applied ...

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Eco Etiquette: Is The Carbon Footprint Passe? 5 Global Warming Offenders to Know Now (PHOTOS)

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. Somebody said to me that ...

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Navigating the Business of Sugar

Derek Beres | Posted 05.25.2011

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Derek Beres

Sugar need not be the devil in the food industry; there is a good reason our bodies crave it. But when we saturate ourselves with anything, physically or mentally, we become dependent on it.

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Raisin Bran Deconstructed - Sugar and Fiber Math

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.17.2011

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Hemi Weingarten

Raisin Bran was first introduced almost 90 years ago. Its name implies wholesome goodness -- raisins are fruit, and fruit is good, and bran is also something people vaguely remember as very healthy.

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The Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.17.2011

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Irene Rubaum-Keller

Now that the results are out, we can really have an open discussion about the evils of high fructose corn syrup.

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Researchers: Corn Syrup Could Contribute To Weight Gain

The Daily Princetonian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Psychology professor Bart Hoebel's research group found that rats with access to high fructose corn syrup experienced a greater increase in body weigh...

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New Vending Machines Keep Drinks Cold Without Warming Planet

Mother Nature Network | Robynne Boyd | Posted 05.25.2011

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The kingpin of soda, the Coca-Cola Co., is changing the face, and footprint, of the refrigeration industry by replacing its conventional fleet of vend...

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Climate Fast Action to Balance Copenhagen Inaction

Dan Worth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Worth

If there are two things I can't live without, they are air conditioning and refrigeration. This summer, I spent an angelic three months in Ann Arbor...

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US Supports Reducing Pollution, But Takes It Slowly

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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UNITED NATIONS — The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners "a very significant" threa...

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Parents! Mercury Contamination Found in High Fructose Corn Syrup

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christopher Gavigan

A study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the present.

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