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A comment on America’s Diet, Too Sweet by the Spoonful.

Re:America’s Diet, Too Sweet by the Spoonful by jballanc on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @11:07AM (#475326)
"Although much fuss has been raised about high-fructose corn syrup, when it comes to calories and weight gain, it makes no difference if the sweetener was derived from corn, sugar cane, beets or fruit juice concentrate."

This is subtly wrong, but I think it's important that people understand why. Yes, the calories from HFCS are the same calories from sucrose or fruit sugars. However, you body's reaction is different. See this paper for an idea of the kinds of differences that can be observed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19064538?ordinalpos=2&...

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Re:America’s Diet, Too Sweet by the Spoonful by yummyfajitas on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @01:31PM (#475626)
I think the point is that the benefits you get by replacing HFCS with sugar are minor, while the benefits you get by replacing soda with water are huge.
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