This week, our friends over at Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat? have been busy reading about science. Good thing, too, because, now we may know how to help save the honeybees – lay off the high fructose corn syrup. Seriously. Stop. Now.

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As if we haven’t had enough problems with our food lately with the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak. Now, two new studies find mercury – a metal that is toxic to humans – in nearly half of the samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) they tested. It was also in about a third of 55 popular [...]

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Could it be true? Has high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) – which is in a crazy amount of foods and beverages like soda pop – been getting a bad rap it doesn’t deserve? Is it actually no worse than sugar, which also lurks in many products?

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She’s so dedicated to changing food in our schools that she got the leading role in a movie about the actions she’s taking.

Meet Dr. Susan Rubin. As a parent, she got involved with traditional programs in public schools to try to bring in healthier food options. Years later, she says all she got was frustrated [...]

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