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Keeping Get-Well Provisions on Hand

??Tuesday is “Body” day where we talk about 10-minute solutions to help reach goals related to fitness, diet and wellness. Seeing as today three-fifths of our family is not well, today I’ll talk about getting well. First, it hit our 5-year-old — cough, fever, low energy. Soon after, it hit me. And at this point it’s just a sore throat for our 11-year-old.

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Is All Sugar Created Equal? High Fructose Corn Syrup Myths

I’m sure you’ve seen it. The new campaign for high fructose corn syrup in which the Corn Refiners Association has decided to rebrand and rename their product. Reflecting on changing consumer sentiment around high fructose corn syrup and declining sales, the Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the FDA for a name change to high fructose corn syrup. They want to call it “corn sugar”. The ad campaign is brilliant. Worried, they ask? We are, too, they claim. Only their concern doesn’t stem from the epidemic rates of obesity, diabetes and corn allergies that we are seeing, but rather their concern stems from a 20 year low in the sale of high fructose corn syrup and the impact it is having on the profitability of members of the Corn Refiners Association