The negative health outcomes attributable to high fructose corn syrup are legion.

Yep, yep. ^^

There will be minimal to no difference in reality to other sugars added given the a average consumption rate. I mean, average 40-50 gallons per year, that's actually vile. Hfcs or not you will continue to have extremely poor health outcomes with that type of consumption.

Promote water, better effect.

Promotion of water, tea, etc. Not american tea with 35 grams of sugar per 350ml. Significant reduction in portion sizes. HFCS like anything else, is fine in total moderation, Americans problem is there is no moderation, with anything.

Hence the rise of Ozempic. Can't control yourself, so take a drug to control for you.

This post was edited by SBD on Jul 17 2025 08:35am

American foods are genuinely engineered to be addictive. As we eliminate the worst elements, we'll begin to heal. For example, cigarette use has fallen year over year for decades, and stands about 11% of adults.

HFCS and sucrose predominately have the same effect and share the same addictiveness.

Third world countries are vastly ahead of NA in consumer protection and food. Go to South America and some countries have warnings all over shit like pop, chips, granola bars, etc.

Americans want a 10 minute ab routine, the result without the work, there will be no healing, just increased drug use. Ozempic being the perfect example of that.

Want real results, start fat shaming people, give them the person giving their kid a can of pop the same snear you would if they were blowing second hand smoke into their kids face.

This post was edited by SBD on Jul 17 2025 02:59pm

The problem with American food is, the majority of our fruit and vegetables are genetically modified to maximize profit not health. This means the flavor is gone, texture usually more tough, but transportation resilience and shelf life good. Add who knows what's in it pesticides all over that most don't wash.

Our natural food is tainted and not that appealing.

Then on the flip side, candies and glut food also maximized for profit which means maximize addiction by use of high fructose corn syrup and colors from sales psychology theory saturating the food.


When a consumer has to choose a crappy fruit next to a sugar wowz mmhm, the later naturally wins.




The fruit and vegetables in other countries actually taste 10x-100x better and enjoyable to eat. No need for candies when the fruit actually sweet. Same can be said for a lot of our food here: milk, bread, meats

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Jul 17 2025 03:07pm

Definitely a contributing factor, pumped full of as much water and whatever chemicals to make them grow as large and as fast as possible. Tasteless indeed.

Very little just use of raw ingredients from scratch in general. I don't even know if you could call some of those off the self things bread in some countries.

This post was edited by SBD on Jul 17 2025 03:13pm

It's huge. Imagine never having a natural quality baseline to make food decisions from. Poor people and public schools aren't serving heirlooms, so many don't know until they meet a hippy or go to some goofy high end dining and get their mind blown.

These are good changes for once around food health in the US. While past plays have been half measures IMO.