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Food and Nutrition
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(Tobacco Corporation’s nicotine and Food Corporation’s glucose fructose corn syrup super sugars)

- The U.S. obesity epidemic

- Michael Pollan Food Rules
- Food science, similar to tobacco corporations, designed to make you eat more, linked to high fructose corn syrup, sounds conspiratorial.
- Americans get 20% of their calories from high fructose corn syrup.
- Americans eat 240 lbs of sugar a year.
- With health care reform insurers would have an interest in your heath.

• The root cause of rising health care costs is the U.S. diet.
• The U.S. obesity epidemic

The insurance industry would have an interest in a healthier U.S. population due to the elimination of preexisting conditions.

If you give a powerful industry an interest in an unhealthy population you will end up with an unhealthy population. The same is true if you give a powerful industry an interest in a healthy population.