Down with HFCS!

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Sohrshah

I am a great supporter of the "whole food" mentality, which I feel is akin to the way of moderation. Eat real food whenever possible, including real sugar, but don't kid yourself into believing that sugar in the raw is health food.

Sugar goes through an intense refining process from cane juice to the white crystals we're accustomed to seeing, even "raw" sugar is nowhere near a "raw" food!

It's only part of the way. Working at home I gained a bunch of weight nervously downing too many sandwiches made with organic peanut butter and artisan jams on whole grain Ezekiel bread. That and nightly organic oil mops, otherwise known as salad, nearly killed me.