Fructose and HFCS: Once again the "skeptics"* are wrong.

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76. No one has ever said "all sugars are the same"

For instance, here's a big stack of sugar right here:



Cellulose, from top to bottom. Pure sugar. I could tell you about my problems with lactose (another sugar) if you like?


However, the cellulose in those books is the same as the cellulose in the celery you find in your tuna salad. Lactose from cow milk is the same as lactose from ferret milk. Fructose from corn is the same as fructose from raw honey. This is because sugars are chemical compounds like any other, with a defined, regular molecular structure.

And of course rats fed pure fructose are going to have impaired thinking and heightened insulin levels. That's what happens when you ram any living thing full of fructose. The rat's on a sugar high and its pancreas is whipping out insulin to break down all the fructose you fed it. These aren't dire revelations, they're physiology 101a.