Would just like to quickly comment here and say that the prevalence of corn based additives in nearly all american foods is a major, if not the main culprit in

Would just like to quickly comment here and say that the prevalence of corn based additives in nearly all american foods is a major, if not the main culprit in this problem. The many corn aliases disguise themselves, so that people who avoid "high fructose corn syrup", find themselves consuming not glucose but a corn derivative none the less: Ascorbic acid derived from glucose Crystalline fructose Dextrin or Dextrose Ethyl maltol Fumaric or Lactic acid Glucose Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) Malt, Maltodextrin, Maltose or Maltol Mannitol Polydextrose Polysorbates Potassium gluconate Propylene glycol monostearate Tocopherol Xanthan gum And of course all these ingredients are used in abundance because they are cheap, and of course all these corn derivatives are cheap because of corn subsidies, and of course there are subsidies because of the massive amount of corn lobbyists and such.