The Straight Dope: Is the increased use of high-fructose corn syrup responsible for the rise in obesity?

The Straight Dope: Is the increased use of high-fructose corn syrup responsible for the rise in obesity?: "Whatever chemical differences there may be between fructose and glucose, the difference between HFCS and traditional sugar is slight. Both sweeteners contain both compounds, and in roughly similar amounts--table sugar is 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose, whereas the most common form of HFCS is 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose. For what it's worth, Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest and a frequent critic of the food industry, dismisses contentions that HFCS is uniquely to blame for the fact that we're fat."

I heard that High Fructose Corn Syrup was bad but I didn't know that the percentage of fructose to glucose is pretty much the same in high fructose corn syrup and cane or beet sugar. Interesting. May have to re-evaluate nutrition cho��������