[RedMonqey]

"I always think about cattle in a feed lot. They are fed corn to get fattened up...'"

Your analogy is not far off.but for different reasons than you think.

Sugar is is sugar in what ever form. Cattlemen put their livestock in a pen not only to control what they eat but to restrict their animals, described in the old days, "from burning off their tallow" i.e, fat.

People today are stuck in their "feed lots" by their sedate lifestyle and job requirements.

In the days when labor required physical effort a high calorie diet was quickly consumed by the bodies' demands for mantainence and repair.

Simply put we are eating like a field hand but working like a pampered prince.

[James C. Bennett]

Sugar is is sugar in what ever form.

No, it's not.

You can take sucrose (cane sugar) and dissolve it in water and get a solution of glucose and fructose.

You mix the equivalent quantity of HFCS in water and get the same solution, again - but - you cannot convert the HFCS solution to crystalline sugar as easily as you can, cane sugar. There is a difference, right here. We're only now finding out the hazards of overconsumption of fructose, including its promotion of fatty liver disease.