Big Sugar and Big Corn face off in court this week in a bitter, multibillion-dollar battle of sweetners that boils down to a mix of science, semantics and marketing. Jurors in the case between sugar processors and corn manufacturers will take up one of nutrition’s most vexing debates and confront a choice common among consumers: sugar or high fructose corn syrup. The federal court trial grew out of efforts by the Corn Refiners Association to rebrand its high fructose corn syrup as “corn sugar” to reverse damaging publicity that associated it with diabetes and obesity. But is there really a difference? Agnesian Healthcare dietician, Jeneah Schwartz, says they are pretty much the same…sugar is sugar. Schwartz says generally speakingyour body can’t tell the difference. But Schwartz says the bottom line is neither sugar or corn syrup is good for you.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
todayMarch 27, 2025
A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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