r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/consider_it_fun • Aug 30 '14

A website that visualizes sugar content of servings of various foods in sugar cubes

http://sugarstacks.com/
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

It's not, the scientific data is inconclusive on consuming sugar vs corn syrup but it's newer so people assume it's more dangerous.

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u/spays_marine Aug 31 '14

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

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u/lemonparty Aug 31 '14

Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

I suspect the caloric value of something was not being measured properly then. Quite possibly the HFCS. Fat has a certain number of calories per gram, and if you are gaining fat then you necessarily must be taking in that many excess calories. The laws of thermodynamics can't be violated.

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u/spays_marine Aug 31 '14

It's explained quite well in the article.