[an amused spectator]

Also, there is only junk food and no health snacks, and a lot of Americans are trying to lose weight.

You know, I noticed that. You can only get half-gallon Super Slurps of flavored high fructose corn syrup.

Thanks, but no thanks.

[dsc]

" high fructose corn syrup" Are you the guy who's always on about that in weight-loss threads? I've been meaning to ask - fructose is a simple sugar, a five-membered ring with two CH2OH groups sticking off of it, and sucrose is a fructose plus a glucose - C12H22O11, or 2 C6H12O6 − H2O. That means it requires more energy to cleave the carbons from a molecule of sucrose and metabolize it. So how come fructose is more fattening than sucrose?