Autism Society of Larimer County

Not So Sweet! by: Phyllis Zimmerman dzerman2@yahoo.com   What do all the following have in common?  High fructose corn syrup you say?  Most of us know that HFCS is bad stuff for our kids but something even deadlier is lurking in the foods listed below.  Would you believe in order to provide cheap mass quantities of foods the food manufactures are using a process that has delivers a product that is high in fructose corn syrup and are you ready......MERCURY!  That's right, I said mercury.    As most of us in the autism community already know, Mercury is a potent nuero-toxins that damages brain tissue, impaires learning ability's, reduces IQ and is one of the leading substance considered to be one of the major environmental causes of autism.  Science is increasingly suggesting that there is no safe level of exposure to mercury. However we are still knowingly injecting it into our babies* - but  worst yet unknowing ingesting it in the 37 gallons the average American consumes in beverages. It is estimated that the average American consumes about 12 teaspoons per day of  mercury containing HFCS! Yup, HFCS now appears to be a significant additional source of mercury, one never before considered before.   Below is a list of the current foods that are known to contain mercury-grade caustic soda used to process HFCS.   To read the full research and get a detailed understanding of the process as well as what you can do  go to http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refID=105026   MERCURY CONTAINING PRODUCTS 7-Up A & W Root Beer Aunt Jemima Original Syrup Campbell's Tomato Soup Coca-Cola Classic Dr. Pepper Fanta Orange Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red Heinz Hotdog Relish Heinz Tomato Ketchup Hershey's Caramel Syrup Hershey's Chocolate Syrup Hershey's Strawberry Syrup Hi-C Wild Cherry Hunt's Tomato Ketchup Hy-Top Syrup Jack Daniel's Barbecue Sauce (Heinz Jell-O Strawberry Kemps Fat Free Chocolate Milk Kool-Aid Bursts Tropical Punch Kool-Aid Cherry Jammers Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce Land O' Lakes Chocolate Milk Lipton Green Tea Manwich Bold Sloppy Jo Market Pantry Applesauce Market Pantry Cranberry Sauce Market Pantry Grape Jelly Market Pantry Ice Pops Market Pantry Thousand Island Dressing Market Pantry Tomato Soup Minute Maid Berry Punch Mott's Applesauce Mrs. Butterworth Original Syrup Nesquik Chocolate Milk Nesquik Strawberry Milk NOS High Performance Energy Drink Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry Powerade Orange Quaker Oatmeal to Go Smucker's Strawberry Jelly Smucker's Strawberry Syrup Snapple Peach Iced Tea Sunny-D Tropicana Twister Cherry Berry Blast Welch's Grape Jelly Wish-Bone Thousand Island Dressing Wish-Bone Western Sweet & Smooth Dressing Wyler's Italian Ices Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt Zoo Juice Orange *(Check out this site for mercury [thimersol] conent of vaccines according to manufactures: http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm)