Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Corn Syrup Leads to Fatter Rats than Sugar...

...at least according to this bombastic headline.  http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

(Body by corn subsidies apparently...)

This is rather odd to read. I've always had a knee jerk preference of sugar over high fructose corn syrup, even going so far as to buy sugar sweetened Mexican Coke (when I drank Coke) as opposed to my own country's corn syrup variety. It's kinda nice when your biases are given a veneer of scientific respectability. Of course, if I were actually to delve into the scientific paper itself, I'm sure I would find a litany of qualifications and unanswered questions that may partially or wholly undermine the headline. But I prefer to let the article stand as is, without dissecting it, so I can be right.

Maybe in the future they'll just have to mix a little kelp in with all the high fructose corn syrup...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100321203508.htm

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