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Consumption of HFCS and added sugar are both down significantly since 2000, with the decline in the former driving the overall decline in the latter.

> addicted to HFCS HFCS consumption (along with added sugar consumption in general) peaked in 2000 and declined steadily until 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768

> The fact you even have to ask this question is telling. Specifically you're talking about Hadza tribe that spends pretty much all of their waking hours outdoors hunting and track…

Good thing the beef and diary industries aren't spending any money to convince you that saturated fat is harmless.

Fizzino's HPF study, while not an RCT, is the most comprehensive study to date done on HPFs. She's also identified links between HPF proliferation and tobacco companies: https://on…

> Seems like you are cherry picking data and ignoring other data from the chart - sure the total sugars from 2000-2020 are down slightly while what’s being labeled as “corn sweeten…

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What's your point? The article implied that sugar magically causes obesity and diabetes, all calories being equal, when the weight of the evidence supports neither assertion, and i…

> The problem in US is the variety of food and how engineered they are to be hyper palatable The best study done to date on hyperpalatable foods found that fat and sodium were the …

Exercise temporarily raises your heart rate and systolic blood pressure, yet avid exercisers have lower RHRs and SBPs; how do you know it isn't the same with carbohydrates, provide…

US sugar consumption declined from 2000-2020 to 1970s levels, while its T2D prevalence only increased: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768 And if sugar is so metabolicall…

Because adding fat (usually in the form of vegetable oil) and sodium is the cheapest, easiest way to make food hyperpalatable, and the share of the grocery store shelf space occupi…

Sugar consumption peaked in 2000 and has been in steady decline since, and not only that, but the decline has been led by a decline in HFCS consumption: https://news.ycombinator.co…

How much longer are you people going to keep beating this dead horse? Sugar consumption has been in secular decline since 2000: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768 People…

> Stuff like this tells me the privacy fight is just completely unwinnable Mozilla has done so many things to weaken users' trust in it (like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

I don't agree. This is something so basic that there isn't, from a Q&A standpoint, a justification for it ending up broken for 2/3rds of a year, and where the kind of hard-line sta…

> The website you are visiting might be breaking it. There are many sites which will force that option to grey out upon right-click. No, this is a new thing that happens on sites t…

I use Linux, so initially I assumed it was some weird Linux thing. Until it happened on my father's brand-new Win-11 notebook. This is embarrassing and disappointing. I'm old enoug…

Specifically the right-click menu option, which is often greyed out for no apparent reason. This happens on both Windows and Linux. Ctrl+C still works, but how does Firefox break s…

> I may have read theories that it contributes more to visceral fat, which is really bad for your health? But that won’t be the majority of weight gained I think. Yeah, about that:…