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<img vspace="4" hspace="10" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.healthpolitics.org/images/spotlight/obesity_epidemic.jpg" />The subject of <a href="http://www.healthpolitics.org/">this week’s Health Politics program</a> 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 <a href="http://www.rethinkingschoollunch.org/publications/rsl/michael-pollan.html">what man does with corn</a> -- such as force-feed it to cows to get more marbleized, less healthy meat, or process it into <a href="http://www.hfcsfacts.com/">high-fructose corn syrup</a> 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 you think. 10 application/xml false nutrition obesity public health Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 allysonw 75.73.96.59 false true false false true 179654 false false true false false false true 182418 blog blogsite/HealthCommentary/web