I didn't read your article, but I recently read "Fat Land", which talks about the rise of high fructose corn syrup as a replacement for sugar and the farm policy in the 70s that encouraged this rise. Speaking just for myself, I hate high fructose corn syrup - it destroys the taste of food and you can't get away from it. It's in everything. You have to pay considerably more if you want say, bbq sauce made with sugar instead of it. Plus the corn syrup goes straight to your liver instead of being metabolized like sugar so it causes more damage to you than just making you fat. I am somewhat sympathetic to the argument that to a certain extent, being fat is a poverty issue - if you are poor, you are almost forced to eat this stuff rather than the stuff made with sugar, which does not do as much damage to your health.
