Whether there's a tax on fructose or not, there are actions that we as individuals can take.

If you haven't gotten to that interview with Peter Attia, my primary takeaway was to not *drink* anything with fructose. Not only does it constitute a fast rise in serum fructose, but it makes us thirstier (because of that 'store water' effect). There are cities taxing soft drinks, and IMO that's the right move public-health wise.

Also, from the interview, the metabolic reaction centers around uric acid which can cause mammals (us) to generate fructose from glucose, causing the reaction to continue.

Johnson (a nephrologist, still in clinical practice even though he's headed a number of nephrology depts) tests for uric acid levels, considers uric acid blockers like allopurinol of febuxostat, when levels get even moderately above normal (well below what would cause gout), looking to interrupt the cycle that ends in metabolic syndrome.

Super interesting - and probably worth an article on its own.