Thursday, April 2, 2009

Warning: Your Soft Drinks and Favorite Snacks

Warning: Your Soft Drinks and Favorite Snacks
May be Loaded With Toxic Mercury
by www.SixWise.com

High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has replaced sugar in many processed foods, and is now found in soft drinks and other sweetened beverages, breads, cereals, lunch meats, soup, condiments, yogurt and much, much more.

The sweetener, which has been linked to everything from obesity and accelerated bone loss to increased levels of triglycerides, has gotten bad press before, but perhaps none as alarming as that from two new studies.

After testing samples of commercial HFCS, researchers found nearly half of the samples contained mercury.

To read the full article: http://www.sixwise.com/Newsletters/2009/April/01/Warning-Your-Favorite-Snacks-Toxic-Mercury.htm

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