Fructose is related to glucose (both are essential simple sugars) and fructose is FRUIT sugar the same as you find in fruits and natural fruit juices. I never found anything in my biochemistry courses that indicated that fructose goes directly to fat as someone else here indicated. In the mid 70s it was charcoal broiled meat causes cancer, salt causes HBP, nitrites in bacon, butter, eggs all cause high cholesterol, stress causing ulcers and a host of other things that were BS then and have been proven to be BS today.
As Marylander said:
HFCS is a combination of fructose and glucose,
whereas,
sugar is a combination of fructose and glucose.
Get over the overhyped BS.
If a belief has been reached by emotion rather than reason, it is very difficult to dislodge it using only facts and logic.