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>>16582686
>If Americans were consuming an equal amount of another type of sugar it wouldn't be any better though

We didn't used to be, that's the point. Americans weren't obese in the early 20th century. This shit only happened after WWII. Sugar costs way more than corn syrup; Americans willingly gave up sugar to have more corn syrup in their diets. Why pay a dollar per can of coke if you can pay a dollar and get 4, only with corn syrup instead of sugar. Once it was explained to Americans that they could have more food for less money, the rest didn't matter. We were bound to get fat after that. This is just how shit is in America; literally everything, even our own health, comes after money. The corn industry would much rather 100% of the population be obese; that would mean we're all eating more corn syrup. You wouldn't understand as a European or whatever.