This Is Your Brain On Sugar: Study in Rats Shows High-Fructose Diet Sabotages Learning, Memory

[jeff47]

3. I'm pro-science. I'm neutral on HFCS.

Haven't seen any studies with proper controls that shows HFCS is bad.

I've seen plenty saying 100% fructose is bad. I've also seen plenty that say lots of sugar is bad.

Haven't seen any comparing lots of sucrose and lots of HFCS, and all the studies that get splashed around the Internet omit that control. Since it is such an obvious control, it is an omission that gives me pause about the anti-HFCS crowd.

Not saying sucrose and HFCS are the same, since they aren't - the fructose in HFCS is artificially created, so half of the fructose is a slightly different shape than natural fructose. That half could cause the whole mix to be processed differently. Or it could turn out that the oxygen bond between the glucose and fructose in sucrose is somehow critical. But both of those have yet to be demonstrated.

And if HFCS does cause problems, I'd like to know. Though I expect the major change would be lots of farmers would grow sugar beets in place of corn.