While the corn industry insists HFCS is metabolically identical to table sugar, research at Princeton found rats given HFCS gained significantly more weight than those given equal calories of sucrose. HFCS is metabolized primarily in the liver, promoting fatty liver disease, and its ubiquity in processed foods drives excessive fructose consumption.

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