There is a new ad campaign taking over the airwaves for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The Corn Refiners Association wants everyone to know that “hey, corn syrup is AWESOME. It totally doesn’t make you fat at all. It’s really good for you too. Seriously - eat it!! It’s good stuff!”. Check out their website – aptly named “sweet surprise”. Huh. Really? Because, the last time I checked, HFCS is just about the worst stuff you can ingest, and it is hidden is just about every form of processed food sold in North America. I'll let you do your own google search on HFCS - it's some nasty stuff.
The premise behind this new pro-HFCS campaign is that our bodies don’t know the difference between HFCS and regular sugar. Even if that's true (which I don't believe to be the case) the problem is that most people don’t pour regular sugar on everything they eat just for the sake of eating more sugar. Why does sugar need to be in your bread? Cereal? Baby food? Ketchup? The list goes on and on and it’s actually mind blowing once you get a grasp on just how much HFCS is hidden in our food.
Anyway, it’s all well and good for me to come on here and talk a bunch of ish about HFCS, but who really cares if I can’t prove that this stuff makes you fat? Starting today I am cutting HFCS out of my diet. Completely. And I’m going to write about how hard it is, what foods it’s in that I had no idea it was in, and how much weight I lose as a result of not eating this garbage.
So far today I’ve ingested:
- 2 cups of coffee with cream and stevia
- 1 apple
- Cucumber, tomatoes, orange pepper (my afternoon snack)
