Beware of The Sickly Sweet
From Dr. Al Sears newletter:
The sweetness you taste in your soda - and many foods - comes from corn, not sugar. Food makers use high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in thousands of products. Pick up a can or a bottle of Coke or Snapple iced tea - even Dannon yogurt, Wonder Bread or Chips Ahoy cookies - and you’ll find the ubiquitous sugary liquid.
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The sweetness you taste in your soda - and many foods - comes from corn, not sugar. Food makers use high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in thousands of products. Pick up a can or a bottle of Coke or Snapple iced tea - even Dannon yogurt, Wonder Bread or Chips Ahoy cookies - and you’ll find the ubiquitous sugary liquid.
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Ahh, that's the problem. Her name is misspelled *everywhere*. It's Dr. Meira Fields.
Here's an abstract:
For many years, Dr. Meira Fields and her coworkers at the US Department of Agriculture investigated the harmful effects of dietary sugar on rats. They discovered that when male rats are fed a diet deficient in copper, with sucrose as the carbohydrate, they develop severe pathologies of vital organs. Liver, heart and testes exhibit extreme swelling, while the pancreas atrophies, invariably leading to death of the rats before maturity ( ... )
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