So here on my blog I have no problems sharing my view point and all that I have learned. This is especially true when it comes to High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). But recently I was watching some tv with one of the kids that I nanny and yet another of those stupid “Corn Sugar” adds came on. Well, this ad and my skeptical annoyance at it raised the curiosity of the teen and she decided to poke around and investigate further.
In her poking she found the following website that can be found HERE .
At first glance my alarm bells started going off. It is very apparent that this is a commercially produced blog like sight. Yet when we looked for a name to see who runs the site we found that it is run by some official looking agency called The Center for Consumer Freedom. Their website can be found HERE .
They raise interesting claims that all of the hype about HFCS is false. And on the Sweet Scam site under the Myths and Facts Section there are a lot of very broad statements about what is myth and very specific word bending with the counter point facts.
Still the sites do bring up the question, who in the end is right and how much of what they say is indeed true?
The big key for me is both sites repeated statements of any sweetener is fine moderation. But the big issue here is, HFCS has found its way into every food imaginable. It’s in so much that if you don’t do your very best to avoid it you quickly become inundated with this said harmless “Corn Sugar”. To avoid this junk all together you either have to spend a fortune buying expensive high end organics or you starve. And for someone on my kind of budget high end anything really just isn’t an option for daily life. You have to fight for moderation.
So dear readers, what are your thoughts on sites like these? In your opinion who is indeed the real “sweet scam”?
I for one will take the words of caution from my many doctors and my nutritionist as well as the many articles I have found myself, including an article done by Princeton. (If you missed that Blog post, you can find it HERE . The more I look into these new sites the more I see the falsity in them.
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