Guess what?! Most the sandwiches, breads, ketchup, cereal, yogurt that your kid regularly eats, yaaaaaaaah, it contains mercury too!

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury

"Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies."

Before this year began I considered what my resolution was going to be. I never got around to making one concrete. The one that was in the forefront of my mind was to feed my family better, more whole foods, more raw foods, A LOT less processed and modified foods and beverages. Now, it's set in stone. I know the stereotype about new years resolutions is that they generally aren't kept, but I actually do keep mine when I make them.

This is just so disturbing and upsetting on so many levels for me, not to mention NOT SURPRISING. I feel like there's nothing left that's "safe" anymore.

Being "anti-vaccination", {which really is a misleading term, I guess a better term would be "pro-informed consent". I just hope and wish that all parents would completely and thoroughly investigate and research the vaccines, and their carsenigenics, we regularly pump into our kids} I would be a hypocrite or just plain negligent if I didn't oppose high frequency consumption of high fructose corn syrup by my kids. Granted, it's in virtually EVERYTHING. So cutting out all HFCS would just not be functionally possible at this point. But doing everyday simple things like shopping at whole food markets, buying locally grown foods, and making meals from scratch would drastically improve the odds of lowering our HFCS intake.

This will be very challenging for me. I don't like cooking. It's not like I hate it, it's just not my activity of choice. It will take major life changes for me to implement this new routine into our lives. However, I'm very good at reading nutritional labels and being aware of what's in certain types of foods. So it will be very easy for me to do the tracking and deciphering part of choosing foods and making good nutritional choices.

Anyway, this is all very alarming. I know the FDA is attempting to quell the scare, but that's what they do. I was feeling disappointed and let down in myself for not cutting the crap {preservatives, HFCS, even before I knew it contained mercury! It was already really horrible for a person} out of my kids diet long before this ever came out. This just put the nail in the coffin.

And it's sad because we can even think we're feeding out family "not so badly". I mean, would you ever think a sandwich could be anything less than totally nutritional? But it can! Both lunch meat and bread {most major brands} contain HFCS! Gosh, it's a daunting task. But, I've never been known to not do something simply because it's the hard route or the road less traveled. So, here's to a new beginning. We've got a long road ahead of us.