Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I've been toying with one idea that might help Cubans. Americans are getting anxious about obesity. The rise of obesity here coincided with the rise of high fructose corn syrup. We do a campaign against corn syrup, hammering on that (as well as lack of exercise). Manufacturers would then have to turn to sugar. Sugar prices rise. Cubans get happy. :->
why is high-fructose corn syrup more fattening than regular old sugar? BTW, there's a great way for USians to lose weight: volunteer to chop sugar in Cuba, the way the Venceremos Brigade (including my sister) did in the 1960s. -- Jim Devine / "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." -- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
