LA Times: Problems with the Princeton HFCS-weight gain study

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9 pointsKhelavaster2 comments

This post title is highly deceiving, the blog post's title would be far more accurate. I wonder what the motivations of the poster were in choosing thia title. There are no problems addressed, other than the obvious mouse vs. human differences.

Given that we do know that fructose and sucrose deliver different hormonal responses, it shouldn't be suspicious that HFCS and other sugars mixtures have different weight gain pricked, but we should be careful to jump to conclusions about humans based on mouse metabolism.

No, the title is fine. There are problems addressed, for example the LA times states:

In another phase of the Princeton study, the researchers found that rats allowed to drink the HFCS solution gained more weight over six months than rats with no access to a sweetened beverage. The difference was dramatic: rats with 24-hour access to HFCS gained 27% more weight than the rats stuck with chow only. But the researchers didn’t include a third group of rats with access to sugar, so it’s impossible to say whether HFCS was worse than regular sugar.

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