> ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist 100 years ago They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wile

> ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist 100 years ago They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wiley. Modern food isn't a paragon of health, but for most non-rural people in the US, it was quite a bit worse from the 1870's to the 1910's. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley [2]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-squad-dr-harvey-wiley-father-pure-food/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-... From that last one, they talk about a lot of honey simply being flavored corn syrup. There was swill milk. They put all sorts of weird conservatives into food before Wiley's Poison Squad determined what was safe.