High fructose corn syrup is a weapon of mass destruction

Dr. Casey Means: "High fructose corn syrup is a weapon of mass destruction that basically food scientists use an understanding about hibernating animals like bears who fructose is one of the only types of calories where instead of making you feel satiated, it makes you more hungry. And this is evolutionarily and we knew this.

Animals are preparing for hibernation and they start eating fructose-rich berries, they need to put on a ton of fat for winter. And so there's a feed-forward mechanism with fructose where it actually gets the bears to be hungry and even violent to out-compete other animals to get as many berries as possible in a short period of time to lay 3D print fat for winter.

So you have the scientists understand this and say, hey, we can make liquid fructose thousand times more potent than the fructose you'd find in berries, same molecule, but in higher concentration. And we can add it to everything. We can add it to salad dressing. We're going to add it to ketchup. We're going to add it to children's school lunches. We're going to add it, obviously, to sodas.

And we're going to make people insatiable. We're going to make their bodies and their brains think that they're preparing for winter that's never coming. And there has been research that shows that hyphetose corn syrup is associated with violence, ADHD in kids, all of these different things."