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>Remember when the rich were all plump I don't think that was ever true. The converse might have been true, but just look at old pictures - not a whole lot of
by rsheridan6 17y ago
>Remember when the rich were all plump
I don't think that was ever true. The converse might have been true, but just look at old pictures - not a whole lot of fat people, and certainly not many morbidly obese people.
Obesity has been an epidemic since 1980 or so. It must be something that changed around then. In other news, high fructose corn syrup hit the market in 1975.
- bricestacey 17y agoThere was a good lecture titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert Lustig, a professor at UCSF, where he argues that HFCS is poisonous. What I found most interesting was that although HFCS is a sugar, it supposedly is primarily metabolized to fat. It seems pretty easy to then link low-income, food insecure (hungry) people with obesity. The video is worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
- Raphael 17y agoHe said fructose is poison. Sucrose is just as hazardous; it's just that HFCS happens to be pumped into everything.