I mean yes but I view this stuff as deeply unserious in the US politics.
If RFK actually cared he would ban high fructose corn syrup from food. Or implement a sugar/calorie ban. Or focus on incentivizing exercise in everyday life. Or limiting/taxing fast food. Or force portion regulations to be stricter, even banning certain portions of things like soda.
There are one million billion things the US government could do to improve health and they’re doing essentially nothing by going after something that (probably) impacts us very little in comparison with the entire rest of the industry.
Call it what it is: pandering. They know that this has broad general support so they get brownie points while doing very little to actually help us.
I wouldn’t target hfcs specifically for an ingredient ban, I’d target sugar fortifying food in general outside of reasonable expectations for the food product. (You can’t make brioche without sugar, so no one would be surprised to learn sugar was added, but they might be if they learned their ranch dressing was sugar fortified).
Hfcs is the sugar of choice for increasing palatability of food by making it sweet because it’s been subsidized so much. If you block it companies will just move to a different source of sugar. It’s not hfcs that the issue, it’s using sugar as a flavor enhancer.
Absolutely agree on banning high fructose corn syrup. The stuff is awful. I recall a documentary from years back covering the discover and sale of HFCS , it was kind of a tongue in cheek, 60’s , Wes Anderson-ish movie. Couldn’t find that one but did find this article & have a slew of new Health movies to watch.
https://www.vogue.in/content/10-health-documentaries-on-netflix-that-will-make-you-rethink-what-you-eat
Honest question… just about everything I’ve read regarding why HFCS is bad is really just about the dangers of consuming sugar in general. Is there something that shows it’s worse than sugar?
I totally agree that we eat way too much sugar in America, and I’m all for reducing. I just wonder if any efforts to this end should be focused on ALL sources of sugar, not just HFCS.
I mean yes but I view this stuff as deeply unserious in the US politics.
If RFK actually cared he would ban high fructose corn syrup from food. Or implement a sugar/calorie ban. Or focus on incentivizing exercise in everyday life. Or limiting/taxing fast food. Or force portion regulations to be stricter, even banning certain portions of things like soda.
There are one million billion things the US government could do to improve health and they’re doing essentially nothing by going after something that (probably) impacts us very little in comparison with the entire rest of the industry.
Call it what it is: pandering. They know that this has broad general support so they get brownie points while doing very little to actually help us.
I wouldn’t target hfcs specifically for an ingredient ban, I’d target sugar fortifying food in general outside of reasonable expectations for the food product. (You can’t make brioche without sugar, so no one would be surprised to learn sugar was added, but they might be if they learned their ranch dressing was sugar fortified).
Hfcs is the sugar of choice for increasing palatability of food by making it sweet because it’s been subsidized so much. If you block it companies will just move to a different source of sugar. It’s not hfcs that the issue, it’s using sugar as a flavor enhancer.
Absolutely agree on banning high fructose corn syrup. The stuff is awful. I recall a documentary from years back covering the discover and sale of HFCS , it was kind of a tongue in cheek, 60’s , Wes Anderson-ish movie. Couldn’t find that one but did find this article & have a slew of new Health movies to watch. https://www.vogue.in/content/10-health-documentaries-on-netflix-that-will-make-you-rethink-what-you-eat
Honest question… just about everything I’ve read regarding why HFCS is bad is really just about the dangers of consuming sugar in general. Is there something that shows it’s worse than sugar?
I totally agree that we eat way too much sugar in America, and I’m all for reducing. I just wonder if any efforts to this end should be focused on ALL sources of sugar, not just HFCS.