Calories are  calories, but is high fructose  corn syrup (HFCS) any worse for us than other kinds of sweets? There is the camp that believes calories are calories and it doesn’t make a difference whether the calories are from regular table sugar or HFCS. Then, there is the opposing camp that believes HFCS is of horse of a different color. But are there any data from scientific studies? In a study done in mice, researchers showed that mice given a soft drink sweetened with HFCS gained far more weight than mice given a soft drink sweetened with table sugar. Read more…