http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2006/05/25/whats-up-with-high-fructose-corn-syrup/ Daily writings about fitness, diet, and health Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2006/05/25/whats-up-with-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#comment-4909 sh(A)ne Sat, 27 May 2006 03:14:23 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/?p=741#comment-4909 <p>...and why do we see so much "corn syrup" used in foods in the states??</p> <p>It's the government's imposed tariff on imported sugar keeping the price of sugar in the U.S. 50% higher than anywhere else in the world; along with the government's heavy subsidization of domestic-grown corn -- and thus "corn syrup" that's responsible: We're all paying to make it extra-cheap for junk-food producers to buy corn syrup; while simultaneously driving the price of natural sugar sky-high...all for the sake of keeping a handful of farmers & sugar plantation-owners happy. (Not to mention keeping Central American corn farmers dirt poor, since they can't compete with the heavily-subsidized U.S. corn farmers.)</p> <p>Isn't government intervention wonderful?!</p> <p>sh(A)ne</p> http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2006/05/25/whats-up-with-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#comment-4530 vh Thu, 25 May 2006 12:34:57 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/?p=741#comment-4530 <p>I think it’s not the corn syrup it’s self but sugar is sugar and many people glance over the label in the back not realizing that there a couple kinds of sugars in their food. Maybe it just needs to renamed sugary corn syrup. Even health food sugars are sugar. Well molasses has minerals but it’s still a form of sugar.</p>