
{"id":1792,"date":"2008-02-06T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/02\/06\/hfcs-a-ban-worth-getting-excited-over\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:24:42","slug":"hfcs-a-ban-worth-getting-excited-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/02\/06\/hfcs-a-ban-worth-getting-excited-over\/","title":{"rendered":"HFCS: A ban worth getting excited over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rebekah L. Cowell<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nI was thrilled to read Weaver Street took a stance against high-fructose corn syrup!<br \/>\nThis January \u00e2\u20ac\u201d new year, new resolutions, yadda, yadda \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Weaver Street issued a newsletter stating that they would no longer carry any products that had HFCS in them \u00e2\u20ac\u201d hip-hip-hooray for Weaver Street, right? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, I certainly thought so. I mean, now instead of having to read labels and carefully comb the aisles, I can be assured everything I drop into my cart is HFCS FREE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d meaning it takes some of the work out of my grocery shopping, which is a wonderful thing when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m toting along a very busy toddler who does not appreciate my efforts on her behalf \u00e2\u20ac\u201d nor all that label reading!<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been polling friends and neighbors and getting feedback from them on the radical new developments over at the Weave.<\/p>\n<p>Seems some folks don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appreciate the loss of Orangina \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in fact, one friend eschewed Weaver Street\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ban as something akin to free speech, and book burnings, and, oh god, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to go there! Most everyone didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind the removal of beets from the salad bar. I have a faint suspicion beets are not a make-it or break-it type of food&#8230;. I could be wrong&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So for everyone who wants to know why? Weaver Street has taken a stance against HFCS because they are committed to our community. You see, unlike white sugar, HFCS is digested differently when we consume it. High-fructose corn syrup is an additive that was put into use in the 1970s. It has now been discovered to go straight to your liver where it releases (get this!) an enzyme that instructs your body to store fat! The authorities on this research are now claiming it has aided the rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Bottom line, HFCS is an artificial additive that our bodies cannot properly break down and digest. Furthermore, HFCS is in more products than not. I challenge you to go to Harris Teeter and randomly pick up groceries and read the labels \u00e2\u20ac\u201d ketchup, pickles, crackers, cereals and so on. What Weaver Street has done for me and you as informed consumers is take the guesswork out of purchasing HCFS-free foods. Back in the 1980s, my mother herself was on an organic kick and would only use honey to sweeten our foods. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not proposing such extreme measures, and I certainly like to use my sugar for baking and (ahem) coffee. But I think this type of consciousness about the foods\/sugars we ingest is going to be vital for making our children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s futures\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Good for Weaver Street and, hey guys, you can get your Orangina over at Whole Foods!<\/p>\n<p><em>Rebekah Cowell is a mother, writer and graduate of UNC who resides in North Chatham.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebekah L. Cowell I was thrilled to read Weaver Street took a stance against high-fructose corn syrup! This January \u00e2\u20ac\u201d new year, new resolutions, yadda, yadda \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Weaver Street issued a newsletter stating that they would no longer carry any products that had HFCS in them \u00e2\u20ac\u201d hip-hip-hooray for Weaver Street, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}