Yes, I’m Really Allergic to Corn, Take #561

Random Party Guest: “Corn?!”
Me: “Yeah.”
RPG: “That’s a random thing to be allergic to.”
Me: “No more than anything else.”
RPG: “So, like, anything with corn?”
Me: “Yeah.”
RPG: “It’s in everything!”
Me: “Yeah.”
He thinks for a few moments, eyes darting around like the mouse in his head got trapped in a maze. And then he asks my favorite question. The [...]

Study Finds Many Foods with HFCS Contain Mercury

This is very alarming, especially if you still eat high fructose corn syrup.
Mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a new article published today in the scientific journal, Environmental Health. A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) detected [...]