TheStar.com – Corn sweetener linked to obesity:
Researchers say they’ve found more evidence of a link between a rapid rise in obesity and a corn product used to sweeten soft drinks and food since the 1970s.
The researchers examined consumption records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 1967-2000 and combined that with previous research and their own analyses.
The data showed an increase in the use of high-fructose corn sweeteners in the late 1970s and 1980s “coincidental with the epidemic of obesity,” said one of the researchers, Dr. George Bray, a longtime obesity scientist with Louisiana State University System’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center. He noted the research didn’t prove a definitive link.
I suspected as much. The health of a generation, sold out to the corn lobby . . . .
I think it’s more about packaged/processed foods (breakfast bars versus the piece of fruit they resemble, etc.) than one ingredient or another.