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via Consumerist by McLaren and Torchinsky on 6/25/09
While grocery store brands increasingly swap out corn syrup for sugar-and trumpet the fact-little evidence suggests any health benefit for consumers. Corn syrup has been demonized because it's highly processed and environmentally unfriendly. But sugar ain't much better.
"Natural sugar versus high-fructose corn syrup" [Chicago Tribune]
"High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Not So Sweet for the Planet" [Washington Post]
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Carrie McLaren & Jason Torchinsky are coeditors of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. In previous lives, they worked together on the hopelessly obscure and now defunct Stay Free! magazine .
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