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It's good to see lots of productive discussion in the comments. However, to cite an academic study and then use it to write something completely unproven and hyperbolic like "Sure a candy bar packs a punch and for lack of a better phrase, really satisfies you, but it will do more damage than eating an entire tray of cookies fresh from the oven (and then some)" is just stupid. It really makes this blog look uncredible, and it portrays folks who avoid HFCS as a dietary fringe.

The #1 reason that HFCS is so popular today is political. There is mounting evidence that the stuff is worse for our bodies than sugar, but we know very little of the extent to which that is true. So, if we want to actually make the food that's available to us healthier, the last thing we should be doing is looking like a bunch of unreasonable absolutists.