Posted on Sunday, 2/22/2009 - 5:58 a.m. PST — by eddysmom
This is government-imposed social engineering and should be exposed for exactly that. Is it "cool" that a mayor wants to make better personal choices in terms of his or her healthy living? Absolutely. Is it appropriate for a mayor to impose those views and challenges to his or her constituents? Absolutely not. We better stand up now and let our public officials know that we do not welcome them into our hearts and minds and the foundation of our personal lifestyle choices. If you give them a foothold in the small things, you will never get them out of your house on the bigger things.
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High fructose corn syrup may have a complicated-sounding name, but it's actually a simple sweetener, made from corn, that is nutritionally the same as sugar.
The American Medical Association in June 2008 helped put to rest misunderstandings about this sweetener and obesity, stating that “high fructose syrup does not appear to contribute to obesity more than other caloric sweeteners.”
Even former critics of high fructose corn syrup dispel long-held myths and distance themselves from earlier speculation about the sweetener’s link to obesity as the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition releases its 2008 Vol. 88 supplement's comprehensive scientific review.
Many confuse pure “fructose” with "high fructose corn syrup," a sweetener that never contains fructose alone, but always in combination with a roughly equivalent amount of a second sugar (glucose). Recent studies that have examined pure fructose - often at abnormally high levels - have been inappropriately applied to high fructose corn syrup and have caused significant consumer confusion.
High fructose corn syrup is not sweeter than sugar; and high fructose corn syrup, sugar and honey all contain the same number of calories (four calories per gram).
Like table sugar and honey, high fructose corn syrup contains no artificial or synthetic ingredients or color additives.
Consumers can see the latest research and learn more about high fructose corn syrup at www.HFCSfacts.com and www.SweetSurprise.com.
Audrae Erickson President Corn Refiners Association