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.
imho the next big agriculture industry will be stevia.
It used to be grown in the far east. but now its grown in the USA. demand is rising fast because its a natural substitute for sugar.
You likely are not from Kansas but Kansas weather is fairly typical of midwestern weather and they grow a lot o corn there. I just googled stevia kansas and got this in return
Stevia has recently gained attention and become available in health food stores in
the United States as a natural non-sugar sweetener. It is a tropical plant that is
native to Paraguay and Brazil, but does well in Kansas and probably in other Great
Plains states. An herb company in Missouri has recently obtained seed from a
breeding selection program in Canada to improve Stevia and select for sweeter
plants. Stevia was originally used in eastern Parguay to sweeten the local tea, Yerba
Mate, but the plant was also used medicinally. https://bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/pubs/mf2630.pdf