High Fructose Corn Syrup and Kidney Stones

I’ll be as succinct and as blunt as I can be:  high fructose corn syrup gave me kidney stones.

For nearly ten years, I got kidney stones about once per year, on average.  Kidney stones are probably the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced, and I tried an awful lot of things before arriving at this conclusion.  [...]

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The Hard Sell

I’m sure I’m not alone in my buying habits of researching a product that I want, then searching for the lowest price on the Internet. In general, this practice has served me well, and I’ve had trouble-free dealings with a number of storefronts without any trouble whatsoever.

I occasionally run into web sites with “teasers” — [...]

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Oh how I loathe thee, Billing Dispute Department

It’s unusual for me to see charges I don’t recognize on my credit card bill, and even then, it’s usually something my wife bought — or that I bought and the vendor name shows up as something unusual. Therefore, when I saw a charge I didn’t recognize from “Silicon Solar,” I took the step of [...]

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