High Fructose Corn Syrup: Sweet Defeat?
By Gailon Totheroh
CBN News Science and Medical Reporter
February 4, 2009
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Toxins Revealed

When the corn syrup wave was getting under way, Flavin worked in the foods division at the Food and Drug Administration. For years, she had few concerns about the sweetener until she needed research for an article in Life Extension magazine, "The Metabolic Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup."

An avid reader of scientific literature for decades, Flavin was shocked, "I was floored because I didn't want to believe it. And I'm a toxicologist from FDA and a physician. And I'm thinking, 'Oh, this is ridiculous, this is just corn syrup. I wish it were just corn syrup and were just that simple, but it's much more complicated."

Actually, Sinatra and Flavin think excessive table sugar and corn syrup are both bad. But they say recent research shows corn syrup is worse.

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