High-Fructose Corn Syrup - More bad news

I've known there was something wrong with High-Fructose Corn Syrup for a long time, and now here's more bad news:

A study has found that there is mercury in many food-derived product additives including High-Fructose Corn Syrup. Here is a human-readable document with the information about the study.

The press release begins, "Mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a new article published today in the scientific journal, Environmental Health. A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first or second highest labeled ingredient-including products by Quaker, Hershey's, Kraft and Smucker's."

If you are not reading product labels for additives, start doing it. This stuff is pervasive! It's in everything, and sometimes it's the first ingredient (i.e. 2nd ingredient in most soda aside from carbonated water....) Dangerous (for more than just this reason....). We absolutely need to go back to basics -- or as close to basics as humanly possible.

And this mercury discovery is on top of all sorts of other implications for HFCS -- obesity, complications for our sugar metabolism, empty calories, etc. My nutrition teacher said there were two huge nutritionally devastating trends to keep an eye on: HFCS and Partially Hydrogenated oils -- keep them both out of your diet and you'll be much better off for it, he warned.