Sugar is better than HFCS
Two new studies out have compared regular table sugar to high fructose corn syrup. The findings suggest that table sugar is far better for you than high fructose corn syrup. Not just a lesser of two evils, but way better for you. As in, avoid HFCS! Read about it over at Natural News.
Table sugar is 50/50 fructose and glucose. HFCS is 55/45 fructose and glucose. Just that small amount of extra fructose and less glucose is enough to cause damage to your body. We’re not talking just weight gain either, but cardiovascular disease and diabetes, even liver damage.
It’s coming. Flu season. Along with it comes that dreaded flu vaccine. Last year we heard all about how horrible the flu season was, how limited the vaccine supply was, but did you know that only 90 million of the available 162 million H1N1 doses were given out? Does sound like a limited vaccine to me. Did you know that H1N1 wasn’t even as deadly as the normal seasonal flu? It just happens that it hit different generations and was therefore, more news worthy. It was all hype, as it always is.
Really. As if getting it out of our water bottles and toys wasn’t bad enough, now we need to worry about receipts?! Something we all encounter daily and it’s pretty much beyond our control.
We spent Saturday afternoon doing something I really enjoy, a soccer tournament. I love watching my son play and get so emotional in the game. After the medals were distributed, I witnessed something that made me think “oh no” and reminded me of a blog post I had done in the past. A coach from a lower age group was lifting his players up on top of the soccer goal to take a picture of them.
