I don't get it.

All these companies make all these low- or no-calorie sweeteners to help Americans lose weight, or to keep it off, right?

Then why is most of the corn grown in the U.S. genetically modified, and most the non-animal-feed corn turned into high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is added to nearly every processed food we eat?

Here's a small part of a very long list of foods that contain HFCS:
Stove Top Stuffing Mix
Most soft drinks
Fruit drinks of all kinds
Darigold Chocolate milk
Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice & Sauce
Sara Lee Healthy Whole-Grain Bread
Thomas English Muffins
Wonderbread
Virtually every product Kellogg makes
Lifesaver candies
Heinz Catsup
Miracle Whip salad dressings
Most of Nabisco's products
All the NutriGrain bars
Quite a few cough syrups & cold remedies
Breyer's yogurt
Yoplait yogurts
Claussen pickles
Mott's Applesauce
Ben & Jerry's ice creams
Dreyer's ice creams
Knott's Berry Farm jams
Smuckers jams and jellies
A1 Steak Sauce
Bull's Eye BBQ sauces
Oscar Meyer's Lunchables
Ragu and Prego spaghetti sauces

I guess you wouldn't want me to get started on HFCS in fast foods, right?

Read the labels, and don't stop at the first sweetener you see. You will find that HFCS is in far more foods than it isn't.

Just in case you're still one of the people who use real sugar, apparently 2008 is the first year that sugar made from genetically- modified sugar beets hit the markets for the general consumer. WHOOPDEEDOO! If this bothers you, stick to cane sugar. At least, for now.

And, just for fun, I'll tell you that the company who sells you Aspartame, and the company who owns most of the genetically-modified seed in the U.S. are one and the same, Monsanto. I guess they'll get you, one way or another.

Sue