As Though It Wasn’t Already Bad Enough
It seems to be fairly common knowledge that High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup (HFCS) just isn’t all that good for you. I certainly avoid it as much as humanly possible, and try to make sure that my growing child (age 3) doesn’t develop a taste for it. Which turns out to be a good plan on my part, as there have been reports of traceable levels of mercury found in HFCS. Yuck!
You can read the peer reviewed study from Environmental Health or this article in Grist.com about the study – the Grist article is less loaded with scientific language and probably easier to just scan.
Either way, it gives us yet another reason to avoid HFCS – and request that it be removed from our foods, our childrens’ schools, and our lives in general. Without mercury it is hardly an edible/digestible substance (note I did not use the term “food” there), with mercury it is a toxic poison.
Feel free to contact the FDA and let them know that this is a serious health issue which they should address with all haste.
January 21st, 2010 saat: 6:40 am
I’ve always made a half-hearted attempt to avoid HFCS but just in the last year, really started cracking down on the stuff. I was AMAZED at all the different places I found it. Like that “healthy” whole-wheat bread I was so fond of…yep. HFCS. It’s so insidious.