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Why demonize HFCS (over sugar) before science shows any of the conspiracy theorists claims are true? It sounds like the vast majority of anti-HFCS claims have no supporting evidence. As far as obesity is concerned, HFCS and sugar are probably equivalent.

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But are they equally prevalent? What if they are equivalent, when all things are equal, but HFCS is deleterious simply because of its cost induced amount and ubiquity?

Yeah, even if HFCS is shown to be no worse than sugar, I'm disturbed by the idea of this country getting fat off of corn subsidies and price protection for domestic sugar.

Science is showing that it is more likely to cause weight gain than sugar:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

The princeton study's methodology is as bad as that 'science in action' photo would lead you to believe.

The short version: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/hfcs-makes-rats-fat/

The long version at Ars: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/does-high-fructo...

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