By R.C.
Fri, Apr 17, 2020 12:28 p.m.
Are Americans lazier now than prior generations?
I don’t think so.
But what has changed over the years is the addition of corn syrup (high fructose corn syrup) to processed foods. Think soft drinks, ketchup and salad dressings.
Fructose gets attached to the same opiate receptors in the brain as crack cocaine.
In other words, folks get “high” from fructose and get addicted to foods with fructose added to them.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-sugar-and-fat-may-be-as-addictive-as-cocaine-052213#1
It was President George “Dubya” Bush who increased subsidies to corn growers in the U.S. It was done so that the overpriced ethanol from corn could be used to create E85 blended gasoline, allegedly because this fuel was cleaner and greener.
But the very same corn growers produce high fructose corn syrup.
In other words, Uncle Sam via your tax dollars is subsiding food addictions.
And aggravating the toll from COVID – 19.
Obesity Linked to Severe Coronavirus Disease, Especially for Younger Patients
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2 comments:
Obesity period is unhealthy. Even if no virus.
'Are Americans lazier now than prior generations? I don’t think so.'
Is this some joke question? Where the hell does R.C. live?
When was the last time you saw a kid - or a group of kids - riding a bike, playing pick-up football in a park, or generally raising hell in their neighborhood?
Can you recall the last time you saw any kid in the Summer with a scabbed knee?
You didn't need COVID-19 to empty the streets - they've been empty (of children) for the last 20 years.
What's changed? - the mountain of electronic shit that's hijacked their brains, even before a cell phone somehow became a life-necessity by the age of 10: video games.
At the same age, we were ripping up and down the streets on our bikes, cutting through yards, playing street sports - every damn day, every month of the year.
If the source of sweetener back then was 'fructose corn syrup' instead of cane sugar, it wouldn't have made a damn difference - we burned-up everything we consumed, instead of becoming pint-sized 'Michelin Men' by never leaving the basement.
Take a walk through any poorer urban area - especially Hispanic - and if you can catch the populace off the couch and outside - all you see are obese kids.
'High Fructose Corn Syrup' is not the culprit - an exclusively sedentary lifestyle is.
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