HFCS

Is High Fructose Corn Syrup bad for you? Yes, it is inherently sugar or glucose. It is as "bad" for you as sugar is. The problem with HFCS is that it is so darn cheap and readily available. Corn is cheap because it is subsidized and sugar is expensive because there are limits and quotas on the sugar that can enter this country. One recent study found that sugar was elevated to two to three times the global level due to quotas established in the 1980s. Australia has abundantly cheap sugar, but is experiencing similar rising obesity rates. So it is not the HFCS itself that is making us fat. It is that we consume 79 lbs of it every year. When you break down how much of the corn we grow goes to producing HFCS, it consumes almost as much farmland as that used to grow vegetables.