...in the obesity "epidemic?" I've thought so for a while. Apparently there are more studies out indicating that HFCS really is not very good for us:
Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has found more evidence of a link between a rapid rise in obesity and a corn product used to sweeten soft drinks and food since the 1970s, reports The Associated Press. Specifically, the data showed an increase in the use of high fructose corn sweeteners in the late 1970s and 1980s that was "coincidental with the epidemic of obesity," said one of the researchers, Dr. George A. Bray, a longtime obesity scientist with Louisiana State University System's Pennington Biomedical Research Center. The research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
This stuff is everywhere -- I was shocked when I found it in canned tomato soup!