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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Most of the US has replaced sugar with something even worse that causes sharper and faster glucose spikes than sugar. Corn syrup. Going back to sugar would actually slow the diabetes epidemic. Sugar actually takes longer to break down than corn syrup but the massively heavy corn subsidies in the US make corn syrup cheaper.