Princeton releases a study about HFC effects on rats. The primary argument that HFC doesn’t contain have that much of a fructose/glucose balance difference than sucrose is addressed by “as a result of the manufacturing process for high-fructose corn syrup, the fructose molecules in the sweetener are free and unbound, ready for absorption and utilization. In contrast, every fructose molecule in sucrose that comes from cane sugar or beet sugar is bound to a corresponding glucose molecule and must go through an extra metabolic step before it can be utilized.”
This is definitely something that needs to be looked into more and mechanism explained.
Oh and since this is HCR week I should point out that if this holds true in humans and is addressed then over time that would do far more for health care costs than any insurance schemes.