High fructose corn syrup is evil.

On a recent Boston Legal, Candice Bergen's Shirley Schmidt enlightened a courtroom (and millions of viewers) that high fructose corn syrup doesn't metabolize like a normal sugar, and prevents a hormone called leptin from reaching the brain - which is what normally tells you that your stomach is full. So when you eat foods with HFCS, you tend to eat more, and hence... Americans are the fattest people in the world. So why not just avoid it? Well, I for one try, but the problem is that it's in a staggering array of processed foods (especially sweetened beverages, like sodas), because it's cheaper than real sugar. Anyway, the Accidental Hedonist had more to say on HFCS this week, which made me regret that root beer float I had yesterday. (Via Boing Boing via Megnut.)