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Were these sodas sweetened with cane sugar or high-fructose corn syrup?

(I did look at the abstract of the actual paper, but it doesn't seem to specify. The full paper might say, but it's paywalled.)

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I don't think it matters but chances are it's HFCS.

It matters.

I guess it matters because it might actually prove our bodies handle HFCS and Sugar differently. I have never seen that proven anywhere else.

Of course our bodies handle HFCS and "sugar" differently. There are about a dozen types of common simple sugars and all of them are handled differently because they are different molecules.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Straw-man. The relevant question is whether or not HFCS is significantly worse than sucrose.

If you want an actual scholarly article rather than a youtube video, here is one (especially useful are the figures on page 6):

http://www.sugar.org/cra-lawsuit/wp-content/uploads/relevant...

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