call me sugar or sweetie, it's all the same

still getting used to this.  here is the detail:

• it's not any worse than the others - the american medical association recently announced at its annual policy-making meeting that high-fructose corn syrup does not contribute more to obesity than sugar or other caloric sweeteners.
• a rose is still a rose - according to michael jacobson, executive director of the center for science in the public interest, the non-natural substance has the same effects as natural product sugar--in fact it might as well be sugar.
• it was just a theory - the much heralded 2004 study published in the american journal of clinical nutrition that posited "the rise in high-fructose corn syrup consumption paralleled the rise in obesity rates in the U.S. and hypothesized that the way fructose is metabolized could be uniquely fattening" was according to the authors, just a theory that requires more investigation.

there's also a link to one of the ads extolling the benefits.