There could be a confounding variable that led to massive demand for sugar water, of which Buffett was only capitalizing on, not necessarily contributing to. >

There could be a confounding variable that led to massive demand for sugar water, of which Buffett was only capitalizing on, not necessarily contributing to. > In part, the shift from using sucrose to HFCS was encouraged by extensive government subsidies of corn farmers, with a majority of U.S. farm policies focused on promoting increased production of inexpensive corn. One study showed that as a result of such subsidies, the consumer price of corn (and its byproducts) remained approximately 25%–30% below cost (of production) between 1997 and 2005 (19). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746720/ > As nutrition debates raged in the 1960s, prominent Harvard nutritionists published two reviews in a top medical journal downplaying the role of sugar in coronary heart disease. Newly unearthed documents reveal what they didn’t say: A sugar industry trade group initiated and paid for the studies, examined drafts, and laid out a clear objective to protect sugar’s reputation in the public eye. https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/ https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-r...