High Fructose Corn Syrup is Harmful to the Environment, Michael Pollan Says
Posted in Diabetes Articles by Connie Bennett on March 18th, 2008
As this blog and my book SUGAR SHOCK! point out, ample research suggests that high fructose corn syrup can be quite harmful to your health (as observed here and here, for example). Now, Michael Pollan, bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, gives us another reason to limit or eliminate the sweetener -- it's bad for the environment, as Washington Post journalist Eviana Hartman points out. "Most corn is grown as a monoculture, meaning that the land is used solely for corn, not rotated among crops," she writes. "This maximizes yields, but at a price: It...
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Source: SUGAR SHOCK! Blog
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