sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and stereotypes

So, there are these commercials on television sponsored by the Corn Refiners Association saying high fructose corn syrup is not bad for you. They have an accompanying website, Sweet Surprise, which provides charts and tables comparing calories, uses, naturalness, etc of high fructose corn syrup to other food sweeteners. It concludes that high fructose corn syrup is all natural, has the same amount of calories as sugar, and has not been proven to cause obesity any more than sugar.

For me, the jury's still out. Studies are still inconclusive about whether the chemical makeup of high fructose corn syrup (55% fructose 45%glucose) versus sugar/sucrose (50% fructose 50% glucose) has any significant effect on our bodies' abilities to process these sweeteners. In examining production methods, both sweeteners require extensive energy-consuming processing and refining, and both are treated with natural chemical compounds to purify them and get them to the state used for food production.

If the above information cannot convince me (or you) of which, if either, of the two main sweeteners are worse for your physical condition, let's consider the following study which thinks it has found one to be better for your mental state. Researchers from Amsterdam University and the University of Florida have concluded that glucose "helps supply the brain with the fuel needed to suppress outspoken opinions." Sugar, of all the natural and artificial sweeteners, has the highest level of glucose. Therefore, according to this study, eating more sugar can repress the "expression of prejudice and the use of stereotypes."

Homemade cookies could be the answer to world peace.