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Comment by anenefan

Unsure what message you're implying or just sugar consumption in the US has declined more than 15% since 1999.

Though similar decline is reflected at a couple other online areas [1] [2] I am however not going to research and quantify that ... besides I don't trust the big food industry to provide accurate figures, I'd only confidently trust a totally independent facility that confirmed overall sugar and easy to digest carbohydrate levels in each food item and average consumption by the population.

Sugars like sucrose and HFCS rather than regular corn syrup, yield 50% and >42% fructose respectively. It's consumption in great quantity does not seem to have a major impact on some people, but certainly others are prone to the vast amount of fructose consumed. Harvard iirc showed how the extra fructose in diet corresponded to longer villi in the gut.

Obviously there's other factors at play, but excess fructose consumption is nonetheless an obvious change in diet to what those earlier than 60 or 70 years ago.

[1] https://www.healthyfoodamerica.org/sugartoolkit_overview_ori...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sugar-consumption-in-the...

parent anenefan 3 years ago

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