Sugar, especially in the form of fructose, is relatively low in the Japanese diet. Meanwhile you will struggle to find food that doesn’t have high-fructose corn syrup and other cancer/obesity agents in North American food. People in NA didn’t use to get so fat, and it wasn’t just because they moved more.
There was a user on Lemmy the other day talking about the fact that in the US, corn subsidies have resulted in corn products being so prevalent in food production and animal feed that most of the molecules that compose most Americans were at one point, corn.
Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is true. Interesting to think about though.
Sugar, especially in the form of fructose, is relatively low in the Japanese diet. Meanwhile you will struggle to find food that doesn’t have high-fructose corn syrup and other cancer/obesity agents in North American food. People in NA didn’t use to get so fat, and it wasn’t just because they moved more.
There was a user on Lemmy the other day talking about the fact that in the US, corn subsidies have resulted in corn products being so prevalent in food production and animal feed that most of the molecules that compose most Americans were at one point, corn.
Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is true. Interesting to think about though.