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[Aliëtte Jonkers] Zorg bezwijkt onder gezonde leefstijl

Een grootschalig onderzoek laat bijvoorbeeld zien dat een normaal gewicht een 50 procent groter overlijdensrisico geeft dan overgewicht. Toch raakt dit inzicht bedolven onder een lawine van allerlei positieve gezondheidsonderzoekjes met vage correlaties, die ons eeuwige jeugd en gezondheid beloven.De feiten vertellen namelijk iets heel anders dan de vooroordelen: gezonder leven verlaagt de ziektekosten niet. Integendeel.
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Why our food is making us fat | Business | The Guardian

[...] By the mid-70s, there was a surplus of corn. Butz flew to Japan to look into a scientific innovation that would change everything: the mass development of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), or glucose-fructose syrup as it's often referred to in the UK, a highly sweet, gloppy syrup, produced from surplus corn, that was also incredibly cheap. HFCS had been discovered in the 50s, but it was only in the 70s that a process had been found to harness it for mass production. HFCS was soon pumped into every conceivable food: pizzas, coleslaw, meat. It provided that "just baked" sheen on bread and cakes, made everything sweeter, and extended shelf life from days to years. A silent revolution of the amount of sugar that was going into our bodies was taking place. In Britain, the food on our plates became pure science – each processed milligram tweaked and sweetened for maximum palatability. And the general public were clueless that these changes were taking place. [...]
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