In 2002 I had a life-changing experience: I began to have dramatic allergic reactions to certain foods. My story is a long one, so I'll cut to the chase - I cannot eat eggs or dairy. But even if I could consume these foods without reaction, I wouldn't. Nor do I eat meat and I limit my intake of processed foods.
Author and healthy food advocate, Robyn O'Brien knows where I'm coming from. As a toddler, her daughter nearly died from an allergic reaction to eggs. From that harrowing moment on, Robyn began to investigate what exactly is in our food and her findings are not good.
Robyn's book, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It (Broadway Books, 2009), details her research into the U.S. food industry and the relationship between the manipulation of our food and the increase of chronic conditions and diseases. Among other things, she discusses genetically modified foods, the health effects of food colorings and high-fructose corn syrup (BTW, both are banned in Europe), and the dangers of soy in infant formula. Her work has won accolades from Erin Brockovich, Robert Kennedy Jr., Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Nell Newman. She has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, and ABC Money Matters. Robyn holds an MBA from Rice University and is founder of http://www.allergykids.com/
Meet Robyn and hear what she has to say in person on Thursday, June 4th at Book Passage Bookstore, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7PM.
The European Union does not ban high fructose corn syrup. However, since 1977, the EU sugar policy regime has employed national production quotas to protect domestic sugar producers by limiting the supply of competitive sweeteners including “high fructose syrup” (sometimes referred to as isoglucose) on the EU market. The goal of the EU sugar policy regime in this respect is to regulate competition afforded by other sweeteners. It is not intended to address other issues like health or nutrition.
High fructose corn syrup is essentially a corn sugar that is nutritionally the same as table sugar. Like table sugar and honey, high fructose corn syrup contains no artificial or synthetic ingredients or color additives.
The American Medical Association in June 2008 helped put to rest misunderstandings about this sweetener and obesity, stating that “high fructose syrup does not appear to contribute to obesity more than other caloric sweeteners.”
Consumers can read the latest research and learn more about high fructose corn syrup at www.SweetSurprise.com.
Audrae Erickson
President
Corn Refiners Association
Posted by: Audrae Erickson | May 30, 2009 at 07:41 AM
Or you can read the truth about High Fructose Corn syrup and what it is doing to our environment from this article in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603294.html
Posted by: CB | May 31, 2009 at 10:23 AM