I’m a bit suspicious of the fructose is bad, only when you drink it in a soda crowd. I don’t think that anyone has been able to show any chemical difference between fructose in soda and fructose in fruit.
I wonder if we could do any cross-cultural comparisons with countries such as Mexico which have cane sugar in their drinks. As I understand it, the key reason fo HFCS is that American sugar prices are kept unfairly high by legislation which protects cane and beet farmers.
I don’t think that anyone has been able to show any chemical difference between fructose in soda and fructose in fruit.
But there's a huge difference in how fast they are absorbed.
Ever been to a BBQ and had four beers over four hours? Sat at a bar and slammed four shots in four minutes? They contain about the same amount of ethanol. The effects are very different.
There's a rate at which the body can process fructose. Eating it as a solid, bound up in fiber, as in fruit, results in an extended period of moderate levels of fructose entering the system. Drinking the same amount as a liquid results in an extremely rapid, extremely high level of fructose. It's not at all inconceivable that this would make a difference.