Part III of Ten Ten Ten’s seven-part Obesity Series is now live.

Federal agricultural policy helps make corn cheap. The food industry converts that corn into high-fructose corn syrup, which appears throughout the American diet, particularly in sodas and ultra-processed foods.

This is not a simple story about one ingredient causing one disease. Obesity is far more complex. But incentives and prices matter. When public policy makes unhealthy calories cheaper while doing far less to make nutritious foods affordable, the population-level consequences should not surprise us.

Those costs do not disappear. They show up in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, employer health plans, public programs, family budgets, and national healthcare spending.

Read Part III of VII: Subsidizing Sweetness. (https://substack.com/@tententenorg/p-197333713)