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Probably due to the freaking fructose in everything they eat, including their bread. Also, sugar and fructose increases appetite levels.

• machiaweliczny 4y ago
  And fructose is transformed into fat immediately instead used as glucose to power body. If I was dictator I would ban fructose syrup.
• chronogram 4y ago
  HFCS != fructose. HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup or isomerised sugar) is corn starch which is turned into glucose/dextrose by enzymes, after which about half is further turned into fructose giving it a sweetness like sucrose (table sugar) or honey so it can be used as a replacement for the already cheap sucrose or more expensive honey. Consumption of glucose containing sweeteners has no benefit for a typical sedentary person but does mess with your blood sugar because it goes directly into your blood once free. Fructose, also known as fruit sugar because the sugars in fruits are mostly fructose, does not spike your blood sugar because it first has to be converted to glucose by your liver. Glucose is only half as sweet as fructose for humans, but since sucrose (table sugar) and HFCS are a little cheaper to produce and get consumed at a massive scale, in practice a consumer will have to pay at least 3 times as much for pure fructose. For the typical HN user without medical issues and the disposable income you could aim for no sweeteners > sugar substitutes > fructose.
• LinuxBender 4y ago
  Adding to this, fructose is a signalling molecule used by our genetic survival trait to tell our liver to store more glucose as fat. The extreme example of this is bears eating loads of berries before they hibernate to store up fat. It works in humans too, just not to the same extreme as bears.