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High-Fructose Corn Syrup, a Villain?
Host: David Crabb, MD
Interview: Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH
Paulette Goddard Professor
Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
Professor of Sociology
New York University
We begin this week with an honest-to-goodness food fight.
On one side are nutritionists who are blaming "high fructose corn syrup" for a big part of the obesity epidemic.
The ingredient, also called HFCS, shows up in lots of processed foods and soft drinks because it's inexpensive.
On the other side are those who say that the real culprit is added sugar in any form, and that high fructose corn syrup is simply the most recent villain ingredient.
So today, Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb speaks with well-known nutritionist Marion Nestle to find out who’s right in the "sweetener wars."
Additional Resources:
- Dr. Nestle recommends reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
- Find production and constituent details on high-fructose corn syrup at Wikipedia.
- Marion Nestle's blog, Food Politics.
- Learn more about the reviled high fructose corn syrup in this article from the LA Times.
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