sweeteners

So I'm having lunch with my co-workers today and one of them starts talking about how she has gone three months without sugar. The natural questions ensue, "oh, is it a diet", etc. She tells us no. She has been off of sugar because "sugar is a toxin" and an "inflamatory". Her doctor has...

There may be another thread in this subforum on this topic; but I cannot find it. There is an excellent article http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6501 that compares high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to a large number of "natural" sweeteners. Most such articles only point-out that HFCS is...

I'd been hearing about the alleged superiority of cane sugar over high-fructose corn syrup for the last year or two. Now that the soft drink companies have released versions of their sodas made with cane sugar, I'm constantly hearing about how it's obviously so much better-tasting and superior...

I became intrigued by this due to some TV Ads I recently saw put out by some Corn Growers associations attempting to debunk the percieved dangers of High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). Thier argument is that it has no artificial sweetners and in moderation is no more dangerous than sugar. I...