The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced that US sugar supplies could run short this year as farmers could lose 21% of the 2011 crop if they are not able to start sowing in the spring.
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The US has high import tariffs on sugar, so high in fact that the internal to the US price of sugar is double the world price.
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People are interested in sugar, and for us that would be Thailand-based sugar.
The US does have an internal sugar price two to three times the world price.
What is a subsidy to protect the domestic sugar growers of the US?
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Hostess sweets have tempted the sugar-starved among us for more than eight decades.
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And the hard truth is that we may have only begun to see the effects of what the endless sugar avalanche is doing to us.
As the authors, Bremer et al., note in Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Trends in US Adolescents and Their Association with Insulin Resistance-Related Parameters, (J Nutr Metab. 2010), teens who are low and medium soda drinkers consume considerably less sugar sweetened beverages than high consumers (an overall mean consumption between .05 and 2.5 servings per day respectively, compared to an overall mean of 7.1 servings, or 57 ounces per day).
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What these and other studies strongly suggest is that most of us are seriously damaging ourselves with processed foods high in added sugar, and the damage begins with our brains.
Since 2005, General Mills has improved the nutrition profile of almost 70% of their US retail volume through initiatives like whole grain addition, and sodium and sugar reduction.
But the sugar industry argued this change would be a bitter pill for US consumers and would only add to the confusion about a sweetener that has drawn criticism by some health advocates.
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After gaining independence from the Spanish in 1902, the country opened to US influence and huge architectural projects were hatched, funded by the glut of sugar money.
Big Corn and Big Sugar are locked in a legal and public relations fight in the US over a plan to change the name of a corn-based sweetener that has gotten a bad name.
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Corn and sugar, for example, are used extensively in biofuels - in the US, 40% of all corn production goes into making ethanol.
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