Food Warning: High Fructose Corn Sugar

It's in just about everything, and it's testing positive for Mercury. Check your labels!

 

Yeah, I have avoided it for years on principle (it's all genetically modified corn) but seriously, it's in EVERYTHING. I try to buy organic as much as possible but I can't always afford it.

Juice boxes are a huge culprit for those daily doses of mercury, I'll bet. Luckily my son is really fond & proud of his stainless steel thermos (none of the other kids have one) and drinks water at school instead of juice.

 

That link to the full story may not work anymore (it did earlier today). Here's another:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html

 

Exactly. I think it was you who informed me they no longer use the mercury preservative in vaccines (during a vaccination conversation). Kids/pregnant women could more than be making up for it consuming the amount of HFCS out there. It's almost unavoidable these days (like aspartame).

 

Yup. We don't use any artificial sweeteners. Though it's damned hard to avoid them too. Even children's chewable medicines all have aspartame!

I held up the pharmacy one night for an hour because I made the pharmasist look up the medication my doctor had prescribed for my son's hives to see if it had aspartame in it. It did. AND HE GETS HIVES FROM ASPARTAME!!! Finally ended up having the adult medicine cut down to size for him, since it didn't contain aspartame, though the children's formula did. Idiots.

But mercury is no laughing matter, especially if kids are ingesting it every single day, which - according to this study - is likely.

 

Yes, I made a Good Fish/Bad Fish list for grocery shopping that I keep in my wallet, it includes local advisories for my state, as well (which sadly means no wild caught catfish for us, and we all love it). Tilefish is absolutely on the Bad Fish list.

 

I'm happy to spread the word.

I swear my Facebook page is one warning after another. Last one was the (still ongoing) widespread peanut butter/salmonella crisis.

It stuns me that so many people never become aware of recalls, etc.

I just did a quick recon of my fridge and pantry. So far only two items turned up with HFCS... the lemonade and grape jam. Both went straight into the garbage, and I read the article to my son (as I did with the peanut butter contamination). He generally avoids sharing at school, since he's a bit of an organic snob, but he read it and then hugged me and thanked me for "having his back" for stuff like this.

 

He'll turn 12 next month. We went completely non-toxic/organic when he was about 2. He had a seizure and got very, very sick when he was a year and a half old, and had impaired immune response for several years, but is now hale and healthy as a... really healthy horse. Very cool, bright, affectionate, philosophical INFJ Aquarius :becky:

ETA: I regularly check the FDA's recall page. Here's the current peanut butter/salmonella link: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/