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   | | Public Health | | | April 25, 2007 | |  The subject of this week’s Health Politics program
might come as quite a shock to you. The gist? There’s corn in nearly every
processed food we eat.
This might not sound like such a big deal at first. Corn is good for us,
right? Yes … and no. Corn in its natural state can be a sound, healthy element
of anyone’s diet -- corn itself is not harmful. But what
man does with corn -- such as force-feed it to cows to get more
marbleized, less healthy meat, or process it into high-fructose corn syrup that shows up in
everything from soft drinks to bread – is the problem.
In fact, the pervasiveness of corn and corn byproducts in our processed foods
is likely a significant contributor to our obesity problem.
Want to know more? Take a look at this week’s program and let me know what
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