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This weeks supermarket news including a new fair trade coffee brand from Tanzania started by Jackie Robinson's son David and frozen organic baby foods that could help prevent the childhood obesity epidemic early on.

Is America's obesity epidemic partly responsible for global warming?

As some try to establish the link, obesity experts tell them to get a grip.

Another day, another neurosis about eating right and living a good life. Su Avasthi on why it ain't easy being green.

How did we ever live without high fructose corn syrup? Before the corn industry created this corn starch-based sweetener back in the 1970's, food manufacturers had to rely on plain old ordinary sugar to sweeten their products.

But corn syrup is cheaper than sugar, thanks largely to USDA farm subsidies, so the food industry ditched the sugar for the syrup. The USDA's own figures show that our consumption of high fructose corn syrup has risen 250 percent in the past fifteen years, with a corresponding decline in sugar consumption.