re: We have ethanol because farmers in Iowa want your money

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They started putting that shite in our food and it's way worse than sugar.
It's exactly equally bad as sugar.

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No it is worse than sucrose (aka cane sugar or regular sugar). HFCS tricks the body into thinking it is sucrose, but during metabolism it gets bypasses the key regulatory step of glycolysis and it gets broken down straight into fat instead of being burned in glycolysis, the TCA cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation. Since it tricks the body into thinking that it is glucose it causes insulin to be released from the pancreas, but it is not glucose so the glucose transporters in adipose and muscle tissue that get activated by insulin do not take it up. This eventually causes those glucose transporters to down-regulate themselves and lose sensitivity to insulin. That means that the body needs more insulin to control blood sugar and that is the basis for insulin resistance aka type II diabetes mellitus.