This is a blog produced by the members of Smith College's spring 2011 English 119 class, "What's for Dinner: Writing about Food." Our title is taken from M.F.K. Fisher's 1968 essay "the Secret Ingredient."
Friday, April 15, 2011
High Fructose Corn Syrup news
A new study from Princeton indicates that a diet including HFCS causes on average a 48% greater weight gain than a normal diet. Take that, marketers who say it's "just like sugar."
I read about this first in "the Consumerist," a blog run by the Consumer's Union (the same folks who publish Consumer's Report). Here's a link to the story. They provided a nice link to the actual study here.
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