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Agreed that the most important point is that liquid carbohydrates and plain sugars are generally bad, and that that's 90% of what people should take away from d
by glaugh 13y ago
Agreed that the most important point is that liquid carbohydrates and plain sugars are generally bad, and that that's 90% of what people should take away from discussion like this.
But it appears that there's still some particularly negative effects of HFCS relative to more typical sugars, too:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/ http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
- tptacek 13y agoThat rat study came up 900 days ago in the last HFCS debate I saw here, and indicates mostly that rats seem to modulate their eating better with sucrose than with HFCS; it's also controversial. Is there a single human study we can now cite that attributes harm to HFCS that is specific to HFCS and not simply to consumption of sugars?
- nostromo 13y agoThey controlled for caloric intake according to the article. The HFCS rats still got fatter than the sugar rats.
- eco 13y agoThere were a lot of problems with that study. You can read about them here: http://examine.com/faq/is-hfcs-high-fructose-corn-syrup-worse-than-sugar.html#summary3 http://examine.com/faq/is-hfcs-high-fructose-corn-syrup-wors...
- glaugh 13y agoWow, that's an amazing resource. Thanks for pointing out, and I stand corrected.