<p> So, the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html">had an article about sugar</a>.</p> <p> Much of it wasn&#39;t news to me–I knew about the interactions of fructose and the liver, for instance–while some of it was embarrassing for me not to have realized, like the fact that refined sugar is, effectively, 50% fructose (so, in that sense, those commercials the pushers of HFCS have been putting out lately are are right–there&#39;s very little practical difference between cane sugar and corn sugar, though the fact that the fructose in HFCS isn&#39;t bound up with anything else may mean it puts more stress on your liver).</p>