foods such as fruit juices, soft drinks, bakery products, and candy were included
In other words, as intake of processed foods has gone up, obesity has gone up. Big surprise. Many other factors influence obesity. It's absolutely silly to blame one specific food ingredient for obesity. Sorry, but there is no quick and easy fix to the obesity epidemic; if there were, there wouldn't be an obesity epidemic.
What I don't see in this study is any kind of comparison to people eating the exact same foods sweetened with a different sugar.
--HFCS can contain varying amounts of fructose, from less than 50% to 90%.
--Sucrose contains exactly 50% fructose.
--Fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of fructose.
So where is the actual study that compares groups with different levels of fructose consumption, keeping every other factor constant (especially total sugar content), that supports a causative relationship between fructose consumption and obesity?
The study I posted wasn’t a comparison of sucrose v. HCFS. However, if you’re really interested, there are studies and information out there. I stick with the scientific journals myself. Like anything, there is ongoing debate in the scientific disciplines. There is no dispute over calorie for calorie. There is, however, debate over metabolic processes when sucrose and various sugars are studied.