Yes, coronary disease is a big problem and yes it's the major killer in the US but it isn't the major killer worldwide, just in developed nations. You'll notice on the first link that cancer is still way up on causes of death in the US and, despite your claims to the contrary, I can assure that now in my second year of medical school that coronary syndromes are a major focus in medical education and research.

The work these scientists did is certainly not the first implementation of this idea but it's quite worth the investment. Stenting is not a miracle cure and likely wont ever be; it's just delaying the inevitable. The only powerful approach to reducing heart related deaths is prevention and education; even then, most deaths due to 'old age' are written up as heart related deaths so they'll keep going up as we get better at fighting the world's real number one killer: simple infections.

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You're completely right about the sweetness. Glucose is really not very sweet (less than sucrose or fructose) and besides that, it's expensive to isolate and it doesn't solve the real problem: overconsumption. HFCS is very cheap in contrast and you don't have to use as much of it.

If you're going to attack HFCS for making people healthy, the fructose part is not a good reason. However, the inexpensive nature of the product does potentially encourage overconsumption which is well documented as a health problem in the United States

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The peer review system is great for regulation, standardization and unification. However, all scientists that I've worked with/researched with/spoken with much about this topic admit that the system can be annoyingly flawed by group think and conformity. One bad apple ruins the bunch, right?

The good news? While this part of the scientific community is not immune to problems, the slack is picked up elsewhere: As long as methods, data and results are transparent, reproducible and published we can actually have quality science.

I often speak to people about scientific research and they're shocked that it's not full proof. This is kind of like buying software (perhaps even a Microsoft product) and finding that it's not perfect. Science is done by committee and progresses slowly. "If we know what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research" ~Albert Einstein

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Wow. I very much doubt you had studied saccharide chemistry by 4th/5th grade. The bizarre thing is that you're SO wrong yet SO confident in what you're saying. The body breaks down the sucrose anyway, so your statement that the properties are radically different is, in this case, false. You understand the differene between a mixture and a compound, don't you?

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Do my eyes deceive me? Someone talking about GLUT transporters while understanding the chemistry? You've restored my faith.

The big thing to remember is that HFCS has substantially the same content as sucrose, just broken down.

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So, I've studied biochem undergrad and medicine in medical school. Just sayin' this to back my next statement

Everything you said in your comment is completely false except that which concerned the liver. No, syrup is not chemically different from granulated sugar. No, hydrolysis is not limited, in fact, you don't get ANY sucrose absorbed without this process that moves to completion. And also, sucrose is often used in commercial drinks and dissolves just fine without granular texture.

I'm constantly amazed as I read comments here how so many people are either making up 'science' as they go or repeating things that someone else made up. It's amazing.

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False, you're thinking of pancreatic secretions that come in after the stomach in the duodenum. The stomach does produce some enzymes but mainly acid.

True, but the vast majority do and few are designed to survive such low pH as the stomach produces. Honestly, since we produce sucrase I don't care if some of it survives in the final HFCS product, and I doubt that much does.

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This statement is false. Just plain false. You can believe me, get a biochem degree and then agree with me, or just do some research.

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." ~Mark Twain

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Yeah, that's almost entirely not true. You body does the same reaction when digesting sucrose that is used to make HFCS. It might not exist before your duodenum but as soon as it gets there it turns into the same thing. Naturally. Transfats (you're right) are avoided in nature. Fructose sugars? Common place.

By the way, what's so wonderful about the word 'naturally' that gets people so gaga? Then again, I'm an idiot....

Yeah, that's just plain false. Sucrose is half fructose, so that's 'significant'.

Yeah, also just plain false. The fructose is released from the sucrose, not converted. That would be a redox reaction which is not occurring. In fact, you body does the same reaction when digesting sucrose. You don't know the chemistry. In my biochem classes we would laugh at the people afraid of HFCS.
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Yeah, that's not true. They were being forced to change their name or pay up. People go to KFC to eat fried chicken and for those people (me included every other month or so) the wording likely doesn't make that big a difference. Then again, I'm an idiot....

Yep, I hear stories like these in medical school. Iatrogenic (caused by the medical system itself) injuries to the patient are a BIG problem, but this is just one type and honestly a rare type of problem. It's at the end of a long list of other problems. Should it be fixed? Yes, but the article is wrong about the source of the problem. Industry doesn't that much care if they have to color tubes a certain way. The FDA doesn't have that much bark or bite. The thing keeping us from progress? The medical community today doesn't self-regulate well enough and now government types (who can't possibly know what they're doing) are left as the common source to petition for improvement.

But that's not the main problem with medical care today (USA and elsewhere in the developed world). It's systemic failures: when a person from one department doesn't know what someone in another department is doing. That kills WAY more people. The article is on the right tract but is kind of a distraction from larger, more major problems.

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Hate on Apple for having the feature while Amazon can't/doesn't or hate on litigious media groups for selective lawsuits?

Two very touchy topics in the /. world!

Me? Oh, I don't discriminate.... I hate everyone! Then again... I'm an idiot ....