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High Fructose Corn Syrup

Does the World Need Pop-Tarts?

Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

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Hemi Weingarten

To this day, Pop-Tarts account for 80% of the "toaster-pastry" segment. Great, right? I beg to differ. Pop-Tarts are an unfortunate tradition that needs to be stopped. Immediately.

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How To Live On $0 A Day: Rediscover the Childlike Joy of Halloween (Get Free Stuff)

Lesley Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Candy, Food Pyramid, Depression, Middle Class, Economic Crisis, Halloween, Tricks, Recession, Advice, Financial Advice, Pharmaceutical Industry, Free Stuff, Treats, Satire, Trick-or-Treating, Nutrition, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Financial Crisis, Comedy, Economy, Milk Chocolate, Humor, Halloween Candy, Nuts, Raisins, Budget, Living, Thanksgiving, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

Halloween traditionally marks the end of the harvest season when people begin storing necessities for the long, lean months ahead. Which is exactly the way you should be looking at it now.

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New Coke Mini - Now With 36% Less Cancerous Death!

Mark Morford | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Coca-Cola, Type 2 Diabetes, Health, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Marketing, Diabetes, Coke, Obesity, Corporate Greed, Satire, Comedy News
Mark Morford

In an unselfish effort to help you reduce -- but not eliminate because that would be un-American and possibly communist -- your intake of our sugary poisons, we are introducing a brand-new product.

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Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Safe?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Health, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Eating, Corn Refiners, Obesity, Diet, Weight, Processed Foods, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

In his excellent book, The Sugar Fix, Dr. Richard Johnson talks about the dangers of a diet high in fructose.

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Meatless Mondays: 52 Opportunities for Rejuvenation

Sarah Newman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Nutrition, Farmers Markets, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Obesity, Meatless Monday, Meatless Mondays, Green News
Sarah Newman

One of the easiest and most profound ways to improve your health is by skipping meat and thereby eating lower on the food chain every Monday.

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The Food & Drug Administration: Broken, Now Break It Up!

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Politics of Food, Melamine, Homeland Security, Food Crisis, President Obama, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Mercury, Food Safety, Food, Fda, Peanut Butter Recall, Margaret Hamburg, Politics News
Andrew Kimbrell

The FDA seems to have never heard of the precautionary principle and, in service to the interests of a few chemical companies like Monsanto, put the entire eating public at risk.

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High Fructose Corn Syrup: A Sweet Surprise For America?

Tara Stiles | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living

Read More: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Diabetes, Obesity, Health, Sugar, Personal Health, Living News
Tara Stiles

If you google "High Fructose Corn Syrup," the first thing that pops up is www.sweetsurprise.com. It's a sponsored link, right at the top. Go to the ...

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Kellogg's Insider on Phelps: Corporation More Concerned About Chemical Delivery Than Marijuana

Don Parker | Posted 03.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michael Phelps Bong, Frosted Flakes, Nutrition, Satire, Alcohol, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Froot Loops, Synthetic Chemicals, Kellogg's, Political Humor, Tobacco, Michael Phelps Marijuana, Doritos, Michael Phelps, Comedy News
Don Parker

Kellogg's has revealed that the company dropped Phelps as their spokesperson for undermining its corporate mission--to keep as many Americans as possible addicted to synthetic chemicals, food dyes, and artificial sweeteners.

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Parents! Mercury Contamination Found in High Fructose Corn Syrup

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Toxic Chemicals, Junk Food, Chlorine, Children, Melamine, Health, Nutrition, Hfcs, Mercury, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food, Neurotoxin, Fda, Barack Obama, Parents, Green News
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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One More Link in the Mercury-High Fructose Corn Syrup Chain: Autism

Paula Crossfield | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Cdc, Mercury, Food Safety, Thimerosal, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Fda, Mercury Poisoning, Robert F. Kennedy, Vaccines, Simsonwood, Health, Children's Health, High Fructose Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup Murcury, Green News
Paula Crossfield

There has been a previous association made between diet and autistic functionality -- and specifically high fructose corn syrup been singled out as a cause for worsening the disorder.

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Our Melamine: There's Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup, and the FDA Has Known for Years

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 02.27.2009 | Home

Read More: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Mercury, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Jeremy Piven, Food and Drug Administration, Renee Dufault, Environmental Health, Mecury Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup Mercury, Corn Syrup, Home News
Leslie Hatfield

In China, heads might roll over a scandal like this one, at least if the country received global attention for its allowing corrupt health officials' greasy palms come before, um, public health.

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Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Turning Us Into Mad Hatters?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Mercury, Epa, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Refiners, Mercury Poisoning, Fda, Mercury in Food, Hfcs, Health Policy, Food Safety, Jeremy Piven, Hfcs and Mercury, Green News
Paula Crossfield

It turns out that many foods sweetened with high fructose corn syrup contain mercury. Worst of all, the FDA has known about this potential toxin and has continued serving it up since at least 2005.

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Sweet Surprise

Christiana Wyly | Posted 12.26.2008 | 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 12.20.2008 | 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 10.23.2009 | 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 10.23.2008 | 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 10.12.2008 | 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 10.04.2008 | 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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