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Re:YC Research: Universal Healthcare by will_pseudonym on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:58PM (#13592186)
Yes, but I would posit that the greatest reason that it has become such a problem is because of the subsidization that makes corn syrup so inexpensive. It's a massive negative externality that is completely unpriced.
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Re:YC Research: Universal Healthcare by dv_dt on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:13PM (#13592313)
In part, but there is sugar or corn syrup in so many products, especially US products, where there is really no good reason for either.
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Re:YC Research: Universal Healthcare by will_pseudonym on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:47PM (#13592630)
They're cheap, addictive calories. HFCS and sucrose also don't trigger our satiety responses well, so that also allows us to eat more than our body needs[0]. It's a battle over space in our stomachs, and sugars are a massive weapon in that competition. Food science is practiced by food companies not to make us healthier, but to ingest more.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18065574/

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