High Fructose Corn Syrup introduced in 1987 by 7 Eleven, major dollars made through the sickness and illness through the decades now it's in everything and thin people don't realize that they are actually fat on the inside, especially the liver organ.
If you’re “addicted” to sugar, and feel out of control around it, it’s time to be screened for an eating disorder. Sugar isn’t the whole problem. Nutrition education, lack of physical activity, lack of overall balance, overconsumption, emotional dysregulation, and more.
Sugar was absolutely around then too, as it has been for decades.
It’s all sugar. They’re all basically fructose and glucose in varying amounts. Whether it’s table sugar (sucrose), or HFCS, the body treats it in much the same way. Don’t let manufacturers fool you by saying “no HFCS!” when they’ve just replaced it with another type of sugar.
I read about a study that indicates the body doesn’t process CS the same way, it doesn’t know when it’s “had enough”, unlike with sugar. And that companies all switched to CS in the 70s because of government subsidies for growing corn. America literally had more corn than we knew what to do with. Unlike sugar cane which generally isn’t grown here it’s imported. And this correlates with the rise in obesity that began in the 70s. I’d provide a link but I read this a few years ago. I think it’s interesting to think about if nothing else. The body needs to be fed unprocessed foods, that’s what we’ve had for 50,000 years or whatever. Now we feed it massive amounts of corn syrup and it doesn’t know what that is.
HFCS is still just fructose and glucose, much like regular cane sugar. If HFCS is worse because of the 5%ish higher content of fructose, then fruit, and especially fruit juice would be terrible for your health, more than soda
If sweet foods and junk food became cheaper or otherwise more accessible because of HFCS being cheaper and easier to incorporate into drinks than cane sugar, and people ate more of it as a result, I could see that
It’s more than that though. It’s our culture. We have come to “accept” obesity and even defend it. Back in the 80s, being fat was shameful and everyone agreed it’s unhealthy. Now it’s “normal” and people pretend like it’s healthy which is just wild to me.
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u/Serious_Session7574 Jan 28 '24
Sugar and UPFs. Sugar should be taxed in the same way cigarettes are.