While it’s definitely becoming a global problem, US takes the top spot in terms of obesity rates and actually has decreasing life expectancy. A big part of that is related to what we put into our bodies.
Re:Corn Syrup Took over America
by potato3732842 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:25AM
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That's only true if you restrict the comparison to obesity rate among adult males and throw out a bunch of pacific island nations because they aren't "major countries" or something.
Well that seems unbiased, as I'm sure would the mitigations for the identified problems. /s
> Americans are not healthy and corn syrup is a big factor
I am concerned about Americans' health and I'm not so quick to point my finger at devil-corn. In the 90s we had corn syrup in everything but we didn't experience rapid weight gain until this century. We know that other factors can affect us (see "leaded gasoline" as an example) and we know that we're starting to see lawsuits over things like PFAS. Maybe there was some unexpected side effect like corn syrup plus 64 bit game consoles. And I'm only sorta kidding about that. It could well be a combo of factors.
Getting fat is a global phenomenon, so give me better evidence than unsupported claims that American diets are especially bad, please.