About That High Fructose Corn Syrup...
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It's no surprise that high fructose corn syrup sweetens most soft drinks and many other beverages these days. But have you ever wondered what this sweetener is doing in your salad dressing and a host of other popular products?
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An unsurprising response from the FDA.
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Gobbledygook. It's the stuff of government. Maybe its No. 1 export.
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o matter what the illness, people in hospital intensive care units tend to have elevated blood sugar levels. One way to help these ICU patients survive is to give them insulin to bring their
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--Call it the sugar diet.   A University of Puget Sound botanist and her students are testing the sweetener's restorative powers on the South Sound's vulnerable short-grass prairies.
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A new study links artificial food dyes and preservatives to an increase in hyperactivity in kids--but donât empty the pantry yet. An expert tells us what parents can learn from the new research.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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Researchers suggest link to diabetes; critics say conclusion could be made about other junk foods. By Tara Burghart. CHICAGO -- Women who drink more than one sweetened soft drink a day are more likely to develop
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Tycho:  I purchased twenty fluid ounces of Halo 3 "Limited Edition Mountain Dew Game Fuel" in the hopes that it would taste so horrible that we'd get a strip out of it. Â Before I read the ingredients in preparation for this post, I often found myself desirous of this strange liquid - a liquid the precise color of tubercular sputum.  I would trip over to Seven Eleven to obtain it, tipping a small portion onto the concrete for the Spartans we lost at Reach.  Once I discovered that the soda contained a compound called "Brominated Vegetable Oil," my ardor was diminished for some reason.  The flavor of the beverage is not unpleasant, especially if you like bromide.  The almost oppressive campaign that surrounds the product is, perhaps, more bitter.   It's one slice (or, perhaps, sip) of a ten hojillion dollar marketing campaign designed to project one of gaming's biggest brands to people who already know about it.  There is no way to escape the Goddamn thing.  Over ninety percent of the surveyed crustaceans were "aware of the launch" and held a "strong desire to purchase," even though their massive claws and aquatic habitat make using the product impossible.  Lemurs are less bullish, but then lemurs are a notoriously tough demo.    It took a third night of playing the Call of Duty 4 Beta for everything to sink in, but it's pretty much official: they know what the fuck they're doing.  A shooter can't merely be great to come out this holiday, and even amazing might be insufficient.  To go against the previously described fucking unstoppable media phalanx - to say nothing of Halo 3 itself, whose multiplayer offering is so broad on every axis that it must be called round - you need to drop something that be off the cheazy.       There are shooters that play with progression to varying degrees.  Battlefield 2142 does, but the infantry experience is one part of a whole.  Rainbow Six: Vegas does, but its reward scheme is largely cosmetic in nature, and takes place outside of the game proper - between rounds, in austere menus.  CoD4's leveling has the sharp inhalation of a WoW ding.  It takes place right there at the moment you earn the XP from a kill, with an onscreen celebration of the fact.  The reward structure earns you new playmodes, new weapons,  new slottable abilities, the right to build custom classes, the right to wear a clan tag.  You don't need to wait long to earn them, the schedule is not cruel, but you need to put in your dues.  It's not an onerous process:  in order to level up, you must simply play Call of Duty 4.  Trust me when I say this is something you will want to do.    I feel as though my knowledge of the game should be richer, so let me crack a few more levels and get back to you.  Hopefully a beta code will have dripped out to you by then, and you will know what I mean with visceral certainty.    Oh, and also: Â if you want to tumble down some fissure in the earth and wake up in the Japanese Madness Caverns, take a look at this video for Puzzle de Harvest Moon.  I watched it hours ago, and I am still haunted.
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Life & style: How healthy can something be with eight teaspoons of sugar in it? Emine Saner on flavoured water.
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NEW YORK  - Having your alcohol with a sugar-free artificially sweetened mixer may cut calories, but it will also make you drunker, a study suggests.
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A DIY test gives an insight into liver damage caused by drink - but experts warn against relying on it too much.
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The EU Commission could fine Microsoft up to 5 percent of its daily turnover if things don't change. Also: Ford recalls almost 800,000 cars that spontaneously burst into flames & hellip;.  The money is rolling in on cell sales & hellip;. and more.
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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By RICK BARRETT  A simple sugar found in fruit and a variety of other sources could be converted to fuel for cars and trucks.
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By Robert Stiffler  QMy husband used old railroad ties to make a raised bed for our strawberries. Is this not a good idea? Can the creosote absorb into the strawberries? - Joan Alexander, New Providence           A.
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(National) Aug. 26, 2004 - Some sugary drinks contain 40 grams or more, which is twice as much sugar as the government recommends for one day.