'Science' catches up to what natural health folks, anybody with common sense, has been saying for years-High Fructose Corn Syrup is horrible for you.

Even if HFCS was "only" as bad for you as straight sugar, the fact that it's so inexpensive makes it so that it's in everything these days - ensuring you consume far too much crap and screw with your insulin and hormonal systems as a given.

Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener - Times Online:

"Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis.

Fructose, a sweetener derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease.

It has increasingly been used as a substitute for more expensive types of sugar in yoghurts, cakes, salad dressing and cereals...

Over 10 weeks, 16 volunteers on a strictly controlled diet, including high levels of fructose, produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. Another group of volunteers on the same diet, but with glucose sugar replacing fructose, did not have these problems.

People in both groups put on a similar amount of weight. However, researchers at the University of California who conducted the trial, said the levels of weight gain among the fructose consumers would be greater over the long term..."