>> No, my suspicions about HFCS are more based on observation and correlation: As we use more and more HFCS in more and more products, we get fatter <<
HFCS consumption increased around 1980!
People being obese increased around 1980!
They HAVE TO BE RELATED
Other things which began to increase c. 1980
Use of the internet
Video games
Microwave Ovens
Pirates
Cable television
Pyrotechnic destruction of disco records
House churches
Cell phone usage
That’s right, folks:
HCFS is responsible for the increase in the usage of cell phones!
My God, reading willfully ignorant illogic like I’ve encountered on this thread in a supposed conservative forum like FR makes me fear for the Republic.
Yes, of course.
However, what say you to the CDC study, which seems like sound science?
Arrogant dismissal of another’s reasoning process is hardly expressive of higher reasoning. It is more along the lines of a fourth grade “did too/did not” argument.
Whether you accept my statements or not is irrelevant to the fact that HFCS has been being put into more and more products over the years, increasing the calories in these food items. The only food-related item in your litany of changes since 1980 is the microwave oven. Nice try, but that strawman isn’t even remotely relative to the food ingredient-related discussion.
We have unwittingly been eating more and more of this product since the 1980’s. To ignore the coincidence of its increase in our diet and the rise in our size is at the least delusional.
Yes, we have also become more sedentary, but putting a manmade sweetener into everything under the sun simply to get rid of it (flouridation, anyone?) is madness at the least.
That said, have you tried any soda sweetened with cane sugar vs HFCS? Try it, and you will be surprised at how much better the cane sweetened drink tastes, even though the HFCS is considered “the same”.
While I know I will not convince either of you of the high potential that we are poisoning ourselves, nor will your arguments sway me into thinking that HFCS is perfectly safe.
Let’s just agree to accept each other’s respective opinions, which is all we have, and leave it be.
It’s been interesting, and I thank you both.