High Fructose Corn syrup (HFCS) has slithered its way into our foods and drinks more than ever before! It is much sweeter, cheaper, and rapidly absorbs into our bodies as opposed to using refined sugar (table sugar), agave syrup, or maple syrup.

According to a recent study by Linda Kantor and Andrzej Blazejczyk , USDA, Economic Resea according rch Service, July 22021, the average cost of High Fructose Corn Syrup per person is 13.6 cents and 29.5 for wholesale refined beet sugar in 2005. Since HFCS addition to foods and drinks, its accessibility spiked around 59 pounds person( down from 63.7 pounds) and sugars (sucrose) accessibility declined 33 pounds per person in 2005. 

In a Cleveland Clinic article, Dr. Hyman explains, "Fructose goes straight to the liver and starts a factory of fat production and it pokes little holes in the intestinal lining resulting in leaky gut. This allows foreign foods and bacterial proteins to enter the blood streams causing inflammation that causes weight gain and causes diabetes."

High Fructose Corn Syrup is mostly found in ketchup, spaghetti sauce, crackers, breads, cereals, soft drinks, and sports drinks. When we consume these foods or drinks, we run the risk of developing fat production, high triglycerides, high cholesterol, liver disease, diabetes, inflammation, and other health issues.

In 1970, the year HFCS was first accessible, the obesity rate in the U.S. was around 15%. Today, it's approximately 35% and some U.S. states are at 39% and climbing! There was no correlation between obesity and poverty until- HFCS was introduced to the U.S. food supply chain.

I, Christine Brown, am calling on the Food and Drug Administration to ban HFCS in all foods and drinks in the United States, to include all imported foods and drinks into the United States. Please stand with me to ban HFCS from the U.S. food supply chain.