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[manana]

Huh. I was actually starting to think that it was probably bunk after all, but apparently HFCS really is especially bad for you, despite being very nearly chemically equivalent in the stomach to sucrose. Bodies are weird

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[doteatop]

I was actually starting to think that it was probably bunk - I thought the last word from your LJ was that HFCS was bad? I remember there being a controversy but the holes in the definition of what constituted a 'pure' specific sugar seemed to put the nail in the coffin for me.

[manana]

Possibly; I don't know when I last posted on the topic. But it's really difficult to get around the fact that as soon as you dissolve it in acidic solution, sucrose and corn syrup are chemically indistinguishable (the HFCS they put in sodas is very slightly higher in fructose relative to glucose, but is also otherwise identical), so I've been growing skeptical, since there hasn't really been any good high-quality research on whether there's a difference between HFCS and sucrose before this. This study definitely pushes it back into the "most probably poisonous" category, though.

[wyldelf]

Thanks for the peer review!

[rhosyn_du]

Dammit. What am I supposed to mix my drinks with, now? :P

[manana]

Clearly I will need to pick up some sugar-sweetened cokes from costco