Soft Drink Tax To Fight Obesity

Some of you may have been reading about this for last few months, but some U.S. officials are proposing an excise tax for sugary soft drinks.  Health experts from New York, Yale and Harvard, among others claim current taxes don’t go far enough to curtail abuse of these beverages, which play a key role in [...]

Is Sugar Really Any Better Than HFCS?

Sugar vs. High-Fructose Corn Syrup
NYTimes.com recently posted an article about sugar’s (cane and beet) overtaking of Big Food’s beloved high-fructose corn syrup in popular food items.  In the article, a market research analyst was quoted as saying “Sugar was the old devil, and high-fructose corn syrup is the new devil.”  According to the Dept. of Agriculture, [...]