The problem with the American diet is not HFCS but sugar. HFCS and sugar is in everything because Americans like sugary, sweet tasting food. HFCS is used as sugar substitute because it is cheap (thanks to govt subsidy). Replacing HFCS with sugar in junk food will not turn it into nutritious food. Demonizing HFCS is a bad strategy. I think people are smart enough to realize that massive consumption of sugar, in whatever form, cannot be a healthy lifestyle.