The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease--and the Statin-Free Plan that Will

by Jonny Bowden

Fructose is the damaging part of sugar, and whether you get that fructose from regular sugar or from HFCS doesn’t make a whit of difference. That doesn’t absolve HFCS at all; it just means that “regular” sugar is virtually just as bad as HFCS. It’s the fructose in each of them that’s causing the damage,