High Fructose Corn Syrup and Mercury

So last year's New Year's Resolution was to eliminate High Fructose Corn Syrup and Partially Hydrogenated Oils from the family's diet. It took some time early on, going through labels at the grocery store, we've mostly eliminated those two items from our diet. The exception, sadly, has been bread, which invariably includes one or the other, or else spoils really quickly (and I hate to refrigerate bread). The nice discovery was that General Mills cereals don't contain either, while Kellogg's and Post cereals still do.

The reason we did this was that HFCS has been linked to diabetes and PHO to heart disease, so it seemed a no-brainer (and we really haven't missed it). We still occasionally "slip up" and buy snacks (and don't get me started on halloween candy!) but I might be less inclined to do that in the future.

I wonder whether a reasonable next study would be whether all the diagnoses of ADD are actually Mercury poisoning a la the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland (mercury used to be used to stiffen hats but was found to have the side effect of causing madness).

The article is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html