High Fructose Corn Syrup

In the last couple of days I have read two important nutrition articles - problem is, I am having a senior moment and I can't remember one of them!

But the one I can remember is this article from the New York Times (which will only be available free for a week or so) regarding high fructose corn syrup. Basically, the article says that high fructose corn syrup is no better or worse for you than white suger. Now I realize that white sugar is not a preferred carbohydrate, but that is a long way from saying that high fructose is "hard for your body to process" and that your body treats high fructose like a fat.

The whole jag against high fructose corn syrup got started because some researcher saw a parallel bewteen charts in the growth of obesity and the chart of the growth in the use of high fructose corn syrup and SUGGESTED that it was an area for further research. Well, heck with further research, high fructose corn syrup has been trashed ever since.

It think the article is important for a couple of reasons: one is that it seems like all foods have the stuff and I would like to feel less guility buying them, but also because now you can make better choices buying things and perhaps feel better trading off some high fructose in one brand against megadoses of sodium in another. In any event the demise of this particular bogey-man allows us to focus on the really bad guys: trans-fats and sodium.