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Nov. 13th, 2011 09:51 pmOh, food lobbyists, you sure do bring the funny. In their reactionary panic to what I can only assume are diminishing sales, here comes a serious rotation of "milk comes from cows" commercials. However, for those of us who cannot actually, you know, digest milk, we totally appreciate the alternatives. Personally, I'm not all that fond of water in my cereal, plus dunking your cookies in kool-aid is kinda lame.
Then there's the corn people and their response to the high fructose corn syrup debate. I know there are studies linking it to increased cancer rates and to obesity as a result of the way that the body processes glucose versus fructose, but I don't know too much about it. Personally, it's not the high fructose corn syrup that I object to so much as it is the proliferation of high fructose corn syrup. Unlike sugar, it seems to be in practically EVERYTHING! Replacing HFCS with sugar doesn't solve the problem because the problem is an overabundance of non-nutritional, calorie laden junk. Break the junk food habit, I say. Reduce your consumption of canned, pre-packaged foods and you'll reduce intake of HFCS and sodium, to say the least.
Then there's the corn people and their response to the high fructose corn syrup debate. I know there are studies linking it to increased cancer rates and to obesity as a result of the way that the body processes glucose versus fructose, but I don't know too much about it. Personally, it's not the high fructose corn syrup that I object to so much as it is the proliferation of high fructose corn syrup. Unlike sugar, it seems to be in practically EVERYTHING! Replacing HFCS with sugar doesn't solve the problem because the problem is an overabundance of non-nutritional, calorie laden junk. Break the junk food habit, I say. Reduce your consumption of canned, pre-packaged foods and you'll reduce intake of HFCS and sodium, to say the least.
