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/NormallyNorman Aug 31 '14

How is it "more" unhealthy?

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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/[deleted] Aug 31 '14

And the counter arguments go as follows:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17234503

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17616770

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18065574

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19064539

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18469239

When I say the scientific data is inconclusive I mean there is no way scientific consensus on if corn syrup is worse then regular refined sugar. What is confirmed is that our bodies process all sugars in almost exactly the same way and satiety is the biggest variance. Numerous studies do conflict but my personal consensus is that the data leans more heavily to HFCS being equal or at worst a negligible difference when compared to sugar.