This week’s “Renew You” Challenge is about reading food labels.
The Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the FDA requesting
to use the name “corn sugar” instead of high fructose corn sugar
(HFCS). Really? Corn sugar does sound healthier than high
fructose corn sugar, and that’s the point. Unfortunately,
changing the name of this harmful ingredient would probably
result in some people seeing it as a healthier, more natural
sweetener. With all the media awareness around the negative
aspects of high fructose corn syrup, I’m sure there would be a
big push to let people know the deception behind the term ‘corn
sugar.’ Fortunately, it is likely that this name switch will not
actually come to pass, and you will never see corn sugar in an
ingredient list. The request probably did more damage than
anything, and hopefully taught the HFCS producers a lesson about
trying to pull a fast one on us. The challenge this week is to
check the ingredient labels on everything you eat and buy.
Become familiar with what ingredi