Very nearly everything you ever read about nutrition and diet is absolute nonsense. This has always been so. I read an article the other day which argued that society had become less hung up about sex but more hung up about food. I found it unconvincing since it seemed not to be aware that food fetishes have always warped segments of humanity, or that sex hang ups are as common as ever. The details change over time, but the hang ups are a constant.

Obese people who drink fructose-sweetened beverages with their meals have an increased rise of triglycerides following the meal, according to new research from the Monell Center. . .

Although fructose tastes much sweeter than either glucose or sucrose, it typically is not used alone as a sweetener.

So, there is some possibility that some people can have some risks if they drink unobtanium - sweet beverages that don't exist outside the laboratory.

Ignore the idiots. The fructose that you might get from fruits or even high fructose corn syrup are no worse than sugar - sucrose - since it metabolizes into half glucose and half fructose, about the same as HFCS. If you have severe food fetishes then avoid sweets, but I intend to continue eating my fruits and veggies, even the sweet ones.

No, especially the sweet ones. I so look forward to fresh off the tree summer fruits, warm and dripping with sweet juices high in fructose. All I have now are oranges and lemons, but there will be apricots, peaches, plums and apples later in the year. Blackberries. Strawberries. I do little things for some of my neighbors during the year and so they don't mind that I raid their fruit tress when I pass by. I think it's Warren and MaryLee's apricots that I most look forward to, but there will be some really tasty peaches too. Eat a peach.