re: #120 Dr Lizardo

Many of my Czech students here are convinced that HFCS is one of the reasons why so many Americans seem to be so fat. I honestly don’t know how much truth there is in that; I’ve read both pro and con in that argument.

HFCS itself is not the cause. However, HFCS is the sweetener of choice for the plethora of ultra-calorie-dense crap that Americans eat.

Having embarked on a weight loss regimen that I believe it’s fair to call ‘very successful’, and having been a typical junk-swilling bachelor for most of my life before that, I feel pretty qualified to remark on it. Most of my fellow denizens eat a whole bunch of stuff that is preposterously dense, caloricaly speaking, leading to massive levels of overeating. Our stomachs are keyed on volume, not density, so a candy bar or a coke that has the caloric content of a full meal doesn’t fill like a real full meal, and leads people to eating more.