“Fructose and especially High Fructose Corn Syrup, HFCS, is bad for us.”
Yep, you got it. The timing is impeccable. HFCS basically took over the sweetener market from sugar around 1980, prior to that, kids (and others) mostly ate sugar. Then, over the years, our livers got trashed by HFCS and became vulnerable to carbs, particularly our re-engineered form of wheat...and now we have the explosion of diabetes and obesity, with even young kids getting Type 2...which NEVER happened in the past (Type 1 yes, but never Type 2).
But Big Food/Pharma wants us to think otherwise, that we all just got ‘lazy’ starting in 1980 and decided to get fat and sick, similar to what ‘teachers’ say about education which is that parents decided, all at once, to not give a crap about whether their kids could read or do arithmetic...rather than look inward to garbage they now push inside our schools.
More important that we ensure enough local school budget to include those soda machines so we can flood the zone with HFC. (Do I really need the /s tag for this?)