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...corn lobby disputes it, but nutritionists have long singled out the high-fructose corn syrup used to sweeten soft drinks as one of the reasons so many U.S. kids are overweight. It certainly doesn't help mice stay trim. In an experiment at the University of Cincinnati, mice that drank fructose-laced water ate less food, gained more weight and put on 90% more body fat than mice that drank only water. Scientists say fructose may affect metabolism in a way that favors fat storage, but that's sure to be disputed too. --By David Bjerklie
...following morning I took a ten-mile run in a placid valley beneath the Green Mountains-a stream, a junkyard dog, an 18th-century one-room schoolhouse, a falconry camp, farms, farms, more farms-then enjoyed a nice breakfast drenched in the world?s best maple syrup and, after shopping, pointed the Honda south. I decided to take the shunpikes down to Brattleboro, hotting village after village. In funky Jamacia, Vermont, I stopped and bought the kids some maple moose pops at the general store. The longhaired kid at the cash register was talking Sox with...
...Washington-based Sugar Association, which represents refiners and processors of sugar beet and cane, spent $235,000 last week to take out anti-Coke newspaper advertisements in 13 major cities. The ads charged that Coca-Cola Classic is not the "real thing" because it is sweetened with corn syrup, while the drink's original formula called for sugar, which is slightly more expensive. Of course, the Sugar Association has a keen financial interest in the sweetener question because its members do not make the corn syrup that is now used in most soft drinks. The decision by beverage companies...
Coca-Cola responded to the sugar industry's criticism with a four-page press release accusing the Sugar Association of misleading the public. The company acknowledged using corn syrup for the past five years. Coca-Cola pointed out, however, that the fructose in corn syrup, as every high school science student should know, is as much a sugar as sucrose, the technical name for beet or cane sugar. "The fact of the matter," said a Coca-Cola spokesman, "is that sugar is sugar is sugar." Even so, in May the company changed Coke's label to read "high fructose corn...
Some cola purists beg to differ. Says Gay Mullins, a retired real estate investor from Seattle who founded the Old Cola Drinkers of America and helped lead the successful protest against the new Coke: "Corn syrup is like lead in my stomach. It doesn't give me the lift. It makes me sleepy." But industry analysts perceive no difference. Says Montgomery Securities' Emanuel Goldman: "Original and Coca-Cola Classic are one and the same thing...