He has since eliminated gluten, high-fructose corn syrup and dairy products from his diet.

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We also use corn to make high-fructose corn syrup that's used in many foods and soft drinks.

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Alaska has taken high-fructose corn syrup out of all its juices, for example.

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All sugar from table sugar to HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) to honey contains some mixture of fructose and glucose.

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"High-fructose corn syrup is one the of many things we are looking into, " intones plaintiffs' attorney and George Washington University law school professor John F.

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If they can trace the compulsion to specific ingredients such as fat or high-fructose corn syrup, they might have the evidentiary equivalent of nicotine--a substance manufacturers may have manipulated to hook their customers on food.

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No one has scientifically proven that high-fructose corn syrup--the cheap and supersweet concoction that has all but replaced sugar in most leading brands of soda and other foods--is the primary cause of the so-called obesity epidemic in the United States.

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"All of the candy on the market contains sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, a form of sugar that doesn't digest well in the body, " says Armand Hammer (no relation to the late industrialist), president and chief executive of privately held Innovative Candy Concepts .

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" cracked the headline of a newspaper opinion piece written by Fat Land author and journalist Greg Crister , whose book's promotional press release rails against "the ever-powerful corn lobby pushing its high-fructose corn syrup on manufacturers, who ignore the research explaining the dangers of how HFCS metabolizes.

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