If the problem were a simple matter of sheer gluttony, this would make sense. However, it's not a matter of people merely choosing to eat more than they should

If the problem were a simple matter of sheer gluttony, this would make sense. However, it's not a matter of people merely choosing to eat more than they should. If that were the case, obese 6-month-old children would be an extraordinary rarity. Fructose is the primary cause of the obesity epidemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM It's difficult to eliminate fructose from your diet because it's put into everything from mayonnaise to ketchup to bread. And people suffer from the twin delusions that consuming small amounts of fructose won't add up, and that healthy-sounding sweeteners such as "agave nectar" are somehow better for them than high-fructose corn syrup. "Agave nectar" contains between 50 and 90% fructose, depending on the supplier. Although it contains slightly less fructose, honey is dangerous for exactly the same reason. And while eating a few strawberries is perfectly healthy, eating too many all at once, or separating the fructose from the fiber content through any kind of processing (blending, freezing, etc.) is enough to induce these same toxic effects on appetite control. Oh, and one more thing. Food manufacturers have a LOT of different names that allow them to conceal the fructose content of their products. Here are but a few (61!) Agave nectar, barbados sugar, barley malt, barley malt syrup, beet sugar, brown sugar, buttered syrup, cane juice, cane juice crystals, cane sugar, caramel, carob syrup, castor sugar, coconut palm sugar, coconut sugar, confectioner’s sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, date sugar, dehydrated cane juice, demerara sugar, dextrin, dextrose, evaporated cane juice, free-flowing brown sugars, fructose, fruit juice, fruit juice concentrate, glucose, glucose solids, golden sugar, golden syrup, grape sugar, HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup), honey, icing sugar, invert sugar, malt syrup, maltodextrin, maltol, maltose, mannose, maple syrup, molasses, muscovado, palm sugar, panocha, powdered sugar, raw sugar, refiner’s syrup, rice syrup, saccharose, sorghum syrup, sucrose, sugar (granulated), sweet sorghum, syrup, treacle, turbinado sugar, yellow sugar.