The Hidden Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup

ou ever wonder why almost everything you eat tastes just a little too sweet? It’s not sugar—it’s

something far more dangerous hiding behind fancy labels. High Fructose Corn Syrup,

or HFCS, is one of the most common sweeteners in the modern diet, and it’s everywhere.

In your soda, your cereal, your ketchup, even your so-called “healthy” granola

bars. You name it, it’s probably got HFCS in it. Here’s the wild

part. It was originally created as a cheap substitute for sugar back in the 1970s,

when corn production exploded in the U.S. The government was subsidizing corn

like crazy, so companies realized they could take that corn, process it into