We didn’t have an obesity problem when sugar was the only sweetener............
THANKS for the link. I’ve long said that the rise in obesity and the rise in diabetes are not necessarily related, and I’ve suspected food additives, especially fructose. This hurts because we are grain farmers, 90% corn ...
Of the diabetics I know, most are not obese. But what is the sweetener in the foods they eat? I don’t know, of course.
“We didn’t have an obesity problem when sugar was the only sweetener....”
The obesity problem took off like a rocket when the US government endorsed low-fat - resulting in processed food replacing fat with sweet. The problem was pushing low fat / no saturated fat. Increased reliance on sweeteners was the result - and obesity and diabetes followed.