I just watched two television commercials that said high fructose corn syrup is OK to eat.

They even imply that its "healthy" because it comes from "corn".

Are you kidding me? This is a joke, right?

Is this what we’ve come to?

Are we now just waving the white flag and giving up?

Are we saying that obesity is fine and dandy?

Are we saying that the rise in Type II Diabetes doesn’t mean anything to us?

Are you OK with your kids getting sick and overweight and diseased?

Do you want to continue to put this type of garbage in your body?

Look, High Fructose Corn Syrup is 20% cheaper than sugar.

It’s a 4.5 BILLION dollar industry. Marketers can spend a lot of

money putting together garbage ads like this.

It came to the market in the late 70’s, obesity levels at that time were stable.

Now 50% of our sweeteners are HFCS derived.

That’s a lot of sweetener!!

Obesity rates in teens have TRIPLED

You do the math.

These kinds of commercials need to be banned from the airways as soon as possible.

If you haven’t seen the commercials I’m talking about, you can view them below.

PS: Thanks to Scott Colby for inspiring this rant.