The new Joint U.S.-China Statement on Climate Change is symbolic in recognizing that forceful cooperation by the two largest emitters of greenhouse gas is crucial. However, this important new signal will only be meaningful if it delivers specific actions that match the strong rhetoric.
Today, 60 leading environmental, conservation, development and faith-based organizations urged Secretary Kerry to emphasize the severity of the threat of climate change and spur bold and immediate action.
Americans consumed less high-fructose corn syrup in 2011 than at any point since 1997, Bloomberg reported this week. The USDA estimates that the avera...
We are in the midst of an obesity crisis in this country, and I'm convinced high fructose corn syrup is a major culprit.
A Harvard study recently published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine associates a mother's low level exposure to mercury while pregnant with greater risk of her child later developing ADHD-related behavior.
A group of food companies has filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Association, a trade group representing the sugar industry, for making false claims in advertising that allegedly caused loss of profit and other damages.
High-fructose corn syrup, the cheap, prevalent and much maligned sweetener, is famously in foods like soda, candy and cake. If you look out for it, yo...
In its ability to pack on the body fat, high-fructose corn syrup appears to be worse than sugar.
Americans have traditionally loved sweet things. Think about it. You can't get any more American than a sweet slice of apple pie.
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...
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.
Edible Radio host and publisher of Edible Santa Fe, Kate Manchester, talks to Revolution Foods CEO and co-founder Kristin Richmond. Revolution Foo...
In recent years, one particular processed food ingredient, known as high-fructose corn syrup, has been singled out as a possible health risk.
The current media debate about the benefits (or lack of harm) of high fructose corn syrup in our diet misses the obvious.
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...
I would feel special that Coke would make a special beverage just for my people, but unfortunately this all comes down to money.
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.
Yesterday some 15,000 delegates, business leaders, activists and journalists gathered in Cancun to kick off the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cha...
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.
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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 ...
