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Old Apr 18, 2008 | 4:41 am
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Originally Posted by essxjay
Hoping won't get us very far.

We must *give* food manufacturers a clue, they won't just acquire one on their own. @:-)
Originally Posted by jws026
the problem is that the american consumer generally wants cheaper, quicker, easier food, no matter the nutritional cost.

i buy nothing that contains HFCS. this, among with other dietary changes and more activity, has allowed me to lose and keep over over 60lb in the last year.
That's part of what you can do. The other thing that helps is to tell others about what you've been doing and why, in the hopes that they will make the same choices for the better that you have made.

If the preferences of the American consumer change, companies will react sooner or later. But what you need for this grassroots change to happen is an educated consumer base - and that's something neither the business community nor the government seem to be interested in developing.
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