The Industry’s High Fructose Corn Syrup Campaign is
Leaving a Sour Taste!

In the face of growing public perception that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is playing a not-so-sweet role in making Americans chunky and sick, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) launched a multimillion-dollar media campaign to defend their ubiquitous compound as a “quality” sweetener.

Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the number of Americans with diabetes increased to 24 million in 2007. But that’s just the top of that deadly dessert: another 57 million Americans have pre-diabetes, a condition that vastly increases the risk of developing diabetes.

Our already failing health care system is ill-prepared for the absolute crush and cost of the coming wave of diabetics, yet the CRA is spending millions of dollars to persuade us to consume even more of their empty calories. With 30% of the population considered obese, the last thing our country needs is more sugar - of any kind.

On average, we only need 136 grams of carbs a day for our brain to function, but the average person ingests 270 calories a day – from soft drinks alone! Yet, the CRA seems to think that’s not enough.

A body receiving ample nutrition has much less craving for sugar. When the body is balanced and the proper glucose levels are being maintained, the body loses it's craving for sugar altogether.