High fructose corn syrup is slowly killing us.
Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.
Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease. [...]
Over 10 weeks, 16 volunteers on a strictly controlled diet, including high levels of fructose, produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. Another group of volunteers on the same diet, but with glucose sugar replacing fructose, did not have these problems.
Of course it'll be nine levels of hell trying to ban this crap. The best we can hope for right now is to spread the word about studies like this. There are plenty of foods that don't use HFCS, it's just increasingly difficult to find them. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that almost every brand of bread contains it.