Sugar & HFCS

How would a ban on HFCS affect public health?
http://blog.nutritiondata.com/ndblog/2010/05/how-would-an-hfcs-ban-affect-public-health.html


From the same website http://www.nutritiondata.com/:

Sugar and Your Heart The idea that excessive sugar intake may play a major role in the development of heart disease is not new. Even the American Heart Association, which changes course about as nimbly as an ocean liner, is finally shifting its sights away from dietary fat and cholesterol and toward added sugars as the primary target for intervention. Two new studies add fuel to the fire.

			The first, which Dr. Steve Parker discusses on the Nutrition Data Heart Health Blog, found that women who ate more refined carbohydrates had much higher rates of heart disease. This first study didn't distinguish between refined carbs (like white bread) and sugar, but the second one did: Its analysis of thousands of dietary records showed that heart disease risk factors go up in lockstep with sugar consumption—slightly more so for women than for men. Processed foods and sweetened beverages are, of course, a major source of added sugar in the American diet. But, as I recently suggested on the Nutrition Data Blog, even if you never eat processed foods, you still might want to take a closer look at how much sugar even a "healthy" diet may contain.