High Fructose Corn Syrup

Sweet Surprise

Christiana Wyly | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Children's Health Foundation, Children, Corn, Sweetener, Green Living, Parenting, Childhood Nutrition, Subsidies, Sugar, Childhood Obesity, Nutrition, Tv, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Children's Health, Soil, Video, Chf, Living News
Christiana Wyly

What are we starving for? We are addicted to corn like we are addicted to sugar like we are addicted to oil. It's the cheap oil that enables the production of the cheap corn in the first place.

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Why Is It Easier To Buy A Gun Than High-Fructose Corn Syrup?

Sophie Brickman | Posted 11.19.2008 | Style

Read More: High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Dining, Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Eating, Sweeteners, Culinary School, Sugar, Style News
Sophie Brickman

Is high fructose corn syrup a drug? Will people soon figure this out and start producing manipulated corn syrup in their bathtubs under the cover of night?

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Life Cycle: Pop vs. Soda? Either Way It's Made with (GMO) Corn.

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Aspartame, Cans, Genetically-Modified Organisms, Popcorn, Weight Gain, Fake Sweeteners, Artificial, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Aluminum, Green Living, Memory Loss, Obesity, Dvds, Movies, Recycling, Leukemia, Health, Soda, Plastic, Sarah Smarsh, Blockbuster Night, Fibromyalgia, Ani DiFranco, Pop, Simran Sethi, Saccharin, All-American, Gmos, Green News
Simran Sethi

Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the environmental impacts of everyday things. Last week we talked about popcorn. Chemically flavored...

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What You Don't Know About Your Tongue Might Be Making You Fat

Mark Strausman | Posted 09.22.2008 | Style

Read More: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food, Prepared Foods, Obesity, Fda, Factory Food, Natural Flavor, Umami, Style News
Mark Strausman

Even though I didn't know I could sense "yumminess" with my tongue, there are people out there who have known for a long time: food scientists and corporate food conglomerates.

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A White Knight Talking Backwards: The Manchurian Candidate in the Kitchen

Elissa Altman | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Sweet Surprise, Karl Rove, John McCain, Andrew Zimmern, Food Network, Department of Interior, Obesity, Sarah Palin, Alice in Wonderland, Alton Brown, Anthony Bourdain, Harold McGee, Nigella Lawson, David Tanis, Mario Batali, Fred Thompson, Republican Convention, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food, Republicans, Manchurian Candidate, Living News
Elissa Altman

Without a doubt. So, after the hideous spectacle of the convention was over, I did what most food writers do when they're mildly hysterical: I fled for the safety of my kitchen.

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Losing Weight: What They Won't Tell You On TV

Tara Stiles | Posted 09.03.2008 | Living

Read More: High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Yoga, Losing Weight, Health, Healthy Diet, Living News
Tara Stiles

The question most people ask me on YouTube and in person is "What should I eat to be skinny?" It is the main thing on America's mind, or at least the...

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Starvation & Obesity: Two Sides of the Same High Fructose Corn Syrup Coin

Max Keiser | Posted 05.26.2008 | Business

Read More: High Fructose Corn Syrup, McDonald's, Starvation, Obesity, Bearstearns, Business News
Max Keiser

The global matrix of food price manipulation and subsidies has produced two casualties; a billion starving people and a billion people eating themselves to death in countries like America.

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O Beautiful for Amber Waves of...Genetically Modified Corn?

Mark Strausman | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, How to Eat Healthy, High-Fructose Corn Syrup, The Food Skinny, Genetically Modified Corn, Hfcs, Sugar, Living News
Mark Strausman

Around 1975, food manufacturers started replacing sugar in soft drinks, cereals, and baked goods with another sweetener: high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

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