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of heart disease. This is why we should diabetes.

Global Public Health found

Peeps, and Why We ban Peeps. countries with a higher consumption

Should Ban Them A common criticism of Peeps is rate of corn syrup such as the United

Peeps are clumps of sugar and that their just sugar, but what we States, Hungary, Canada, and more

corn syrup held together by gelatin, should really be concerned about is the “had an average prevalence of type 2

covered in more sugar. This corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is diabetes of 8 percent compared to 6.7

preposterous holiday snack promotes now more than 40% of caloric percent in countries not using

the excess of processed food in sweeteners added to food and high-fructose corn syrup.”

America. Discontinuing the production beverages in the United States. The Corn syrup is obviously used in

of all peeps would be a small step on a US National Library of Medicine reports a multitude of products and nobody

long road to creating better average that “​The increased use of HFCS in the would try to claim that banning peeps

diets in America. Corn syrup, the United States mirrors the rapid will immediately solve type 2 diabetes

second main ingredient in Peeps, can increase in obesity,” in thier 2004 study in America, but we have to start small.

lead to type two diabetes, metabolic of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) Solutions to big problems always start

syndrome and high triglyceride levels, consumption in America. Studies have small and there’s no better place to

and both of these things increase risk also found a relationship between corn start than with an obnoxious seasonal,

syrup consumption and type two holiday treat. ​I i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i

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