Between 1985 and 2010, the price of beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup dropped 24%. During that same time, the price of fresh fruits and vegetables rose 39%.
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Source: Scientific American, May 2012 (page 12)… Read More
In 1495, an epidemic of syphilis spread from Naples across Europe. (It probably reached Europe from the New World by way of Columbus’s ships.) The English called it the French pox. The French called it the English pox.