Yeah, sugar is basically heroin but in a lighter form. :)

Life expectancy is increasing in the US, but not as quickly as in other countries, despite having the highest healthcare spend per person, and that is due to obesity.

http://www.diabetescure101.com/us_life_expectancy.htm

Disagree with that last statement. Healthcare costs in america are the highest anywhere. Doesn't matter if you are skinny or fat.

I meant obesity is slowing down life expectancy increase rate in the US compared to other countries.

Obesity clogs the system with preventable illnesses, driving up cost for everyone.

And yet they continue to put the stuff that causes obesity, namely HFCS, in EVERYTHING.

One has to be educated in order to make good choices and yet our education system is slowly but surely failing.

Obesity is preventable, yes. But the people in charge, despite their lip service to the issue, are doing NOTHING to actually prevent it.

I think it's pretty easy to argue that the people in charge are actively working to make the situation worse. Subsidizing HFCS, cane sugar, beet sugar and wheat is flat out dumb IMO. Farmers should be protected but the current system is flooding the market with cheap garbage and we're all paying for it.

QFT. Totally agree with both of you.

Except HFCS doesn't actually CAUSE obesity.

Elaborate.

I mean, sure, it's very easy to say HFCS doesn't "cause" obesity in the sense that simple exposure to it makes you fat. But if you eat sufficient quantities, it can be an extreme contributing factor. And in a society that is bombarded with it, isn't it more practical to look at HFCS as a significant "cause", though it isn't technically true?

Yet, when they try to do something, anything, they get chastised, like the Mayor of NY. Granted, he may not have the exact way of handling it, but he was on the right track, and got lambasted for it. Theres no winning when you try to take peoples addictions away.

I would say that it's true. Furthermore, I would say Princeton agrees with me.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/a.../S26/91/22K07/


From all that I've heard is that it changes your metabolism when longterm exposure is encountered.

Imo, the best thing that can be done is to stop corn and sugar subsidies.

Because the Mayor of NY is regulating the consumer.

Why not regulate the PRODUCER? Oh that's right, because they're giving you boatloads of money...

Yep, and thats partially why the Mayor went after someone, anyone. It just happeneds to be us because the producers cant be touched. Its a sad state of affairs