The answer to the diabetes scourge: eat kosher?

[Northerner]

We want everything to be sweeter these days ? our bread, our pies, our strawberries ? and it's killing us. That, crudely summarised, is the gist of a worrying new study in the British Medical Journal. Sugar ? sucrose, the plain white stuff you buy by the pound ? isn?t the main problem, though. It?s high fructose corn syrup we should be concerned about. This is the dead cheap sweetener made from maize, which in many countries, such as the United States, is preferred to sugar by the food industry. Maize is cheap in the US and has been for several decades, since it?s heavily subsidised by the government. Proper sugar is much more expensive, so not surprisingly Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been using HFCS to sweeten their delicious beverages in the US since the Eighties. In Britain, where HFCS is often called glucose-fructose syrup on ingredients labels, Coke and other soft drinks still use sucrose, by and large.

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