I have an odd question, but how much sugars, especially free fructose, do people here eat? I've been doing research into this sugar, and realized that there is a case to be made that a lot of the dysfunction lately is the result of excess consumption of it. Simply put, human beings evolved to eat fairly modest quantities of fructose, almost always as part of a polysaccharide (multiple sugars linked together), such as sucrose (glucose and fructose). There is evidence that high quantities of fructose cause physical illness, and there is evidence that it acts as a narcotic. Further, when free fructose was first added to the US food supply in significant amounts in the later 1970s and early 1980s, there was simultaneously a massive cultural change.
The levels of fructose in food have almost certainly increased starting since 2015, when artificial trans fats started to be removed from the food supply. For complex reasons, fructose is one of the only compounds palatable for the food industry to use in large quantities to replace these (everything else being tainted by either serious health fears, hard to store, or expensive). What this means is that around the same time a lot of people started acting weird, the food supply was changed, likely increasing the quantity of a known narcotic; and further, it is those social classes who eat the most processed foods, and thus would be most affected, who were most likely to start wigging out.
Given this, I'm curious if those of us who resisted the Covid panic are significantly less likely to eat fructose than the general public; as this could be useful data for furthering this line of research.
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The levels of fructose in food have almost certainly increased starting since 2015, when artificial trans fats started to be removed from the food supply. For complex reasons, fructose is one of the only compounds palatable for the food industry to use in large quantities to replace these (everything else being tainted by either serious health fears, hard to store, or expensive). What this means is that around the same time a lot of people started acting weird, the food supply was changed, likely increasing the quantity of a known narcotic; and further, it is those social classes who eat the most processed foods, and thus would be most affected, who were most likely to start wigging out.
Given this, I'm curious if those of us who resisted the Covid panic are significantly less likely to eat fructose than the general public; as this could be useful data for furthering this line of research.