It’s a lazy Sunday (yeah, right! Just before Christmas!) and I’m not going to write today because Kathrine Gustafson has written what we all need to read: Coke is killing us. Not just Coke, but everything containing high fructose corn syrup. Read the labels, folks, and at least stop killing your kids. I’ll let Katherine take over from here. Her entire post on this is well worth a read.
Well, I must say, we’ve really managed to screw ourselves over in this country food-wise. Left and right there’s tainted meat and salmonella-laced lettuce, BPA-lined cans and chemically enhanced food-like products that will give you “anal oil leakage.”
Now there’s evidence that the reason for our obesity epidemic is that something we consume a lot of — at least 60 pounds a year — is actively damaging our ability to stay healthy. Yes, my friends, apparently high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) alters our body chemistry, causing it to grow more fat cells around vital organs and to spark early stages of diabetes and heart disease.
The problem isn’t just that we consume too much of the corny sweetener — though surely we do — it’s that HFCS actually damages human metabolisms in ways that promote the specific problems we’ve got.
You can read the rest of this, plus some really good comments, at Katherine’s Sustainable Food blog at change.org.
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