Corn maze.(FROM READERS)(Letter to the Editor)

Publication: World Watch

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Worldwatch Institute

"Reducing 'Globesity' Begins at Home," [Green Guidance, Sept/Oct 2005] unfortunately mischaracterizes high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a natural, home-grown sweetener from U.S. cornfields, by stating that it raises blood triglyceride levels.

The writer appears to be confusing pure fructose (fed to experimental subjects at 100-percent levels) with HFCS (an approximately equal combination of fructose and glucose, comparable to table sugar). The research apparently being referred to was actually conducted using pure fructose at unrealistically...

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