High Fructose Corn Syrup: Should We Believe the New Ads? Get the Scoop About This Popular Sweetener

Published: Nov. 18, 2008, 8 p.m.

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Seen those new TV spots, print or online ads about high fructose corn syrup? Are they accurate or misleading? Get the truth about this cheap, widely popular, chemically synthesized, corn-based sweetener that\'s now used in some 2/3 of processed foods that you find in grocery stores today. Guests include: Curt Ellis, director of "King Corn," cardiologist Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra (contributing author to SUGAR SHOCK!); food formulator Russ Bianchi and nutritionist Pedro Bastos. Dr. Richard Johnson, author of the Sugar Fix, could not make it but he will appear on a future show.

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