There are all sorts of sugars. I don't know what you mean by "raw" sugar. The chemical composition of honey is almost identical to that of HFCS. Anyone who fears HFCS should also be fearful of honey. Doesn't make much sense now, does it?
I think that when a person or animal consumes fruit, and therefore fructose, the body senses the difference between that and pure sugar.
Again, what do you mean by "pure" sugar. Fructose is a sugar (monosaccharide) just like galactose and glucose. Fructose may be metabolized through a different pathway in the body, but that's no reason to fear it.
When we eat fructose enhanced foods, the body says, “Hey! FRUCTOSE! It must be Summer! I must store this away for later!”
No, your body doesn't metabolize sugars based on a particular season. Your body absorbs sugar independent of the dietary source. It is regulated by active transport on the surface of the small intestines. Your body doesn't know the source of the fructose or glucose, nor does it care.
Hydrolyzed sucrose (regular old table sugar) and HFCS are metabolized in the same manner. There is no difference between them when it comes to how they are absorbed by the body. Fructose is fructose and glucose is glucose. All this fear is based on a misunderstanding of basic nutrition.
When male rats were given water sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup in addition to a standard diet of rat chow, the animals gained much more weight than male rats that received water sweetened with table sugar, or sucrose, along with the standard diet. The concentration of sugar in the sucrose solution was the same as is found in some commercial soft drinks, while the high-fructose corn syrup solution was half as concentrated as most sodas, including the orange soft drink...
Even with half concentrations, the rats gained more weight. That tells me that there is a difference, however small. The molecular make-up is different in some way that the body recognizes.
Nobody is saying sugar is good or that it doesn't cause weight gain and other ill effects, it's just that HFCS are worse and possibly much worse than sugar alone. There is some mechanism that causes this, and the only reason must be that we are too susceptible to storage of calories from HFCS vs. sugar.
“Hydrolyzed sucrose (regular old table sugar) and HFCS are metabolized in the same manner. There is no difference between them when it comes to how they are absorbed by the body. Fructose is fructose and glucose is glucose. All this fear is based on a misunderstanding of basic nutrition.”
Hi, this endocrinologist(the guy in the video, not me) says different. It’s a 45 minute video that I watched all of and highly recommend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM