High-Fructose Corn Syrup: Safe as sugar?

Yep. Dried beans are a seriously economical food.
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Shopping the middle of the store aisles means additives (usually). Shopping the middle shelves of an aisle usually means higher prices.
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I've lost 86 lbs. on that combination, and RP has lost, I think, a good 20 or so and he's not even trying. So what does that say about the typical American diet?

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You are absolutely right.
And what else I have noticed about the shopping lay out.... stand with your legs bent, about a kids height.. guess what happens?? Everything that is sugary is now bright red, yellow, and blue. Toys are dangling in front of fruit loop boxes, tiny little corners of the isles that are really not THAT visible to the adult, have sugary snacks, drinks, and other processed crap in it.
I always wonder , when Jillian comes up to me with something " where in the hell did you get that?" I stoop over and bingo.. a whole new sugar coated world reveals itself to me like a cosmic secret. Most of the time I have her ride in the cart, or, just dip into the isles a little like you said. I also noticed that I by pass all that horrible foot traffic too. Even in the 6;0clock witching hour our grocery store has, I can get in and get out in about 10 minutes if I am shopping for only a couple of days.
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2. High fructose corn syrup continued...

Foods that have it

High fructose corn syrup is a common additive in many kinds of processed foods, not just sweets. Most non-diet soft drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.

Why it's controversial

Some experts have proposed that people metabolize high fructose corn syrup in a way that raises the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes more than sugar made from sugar cane. Much of the controversy stems from the observation that obesity in the United States and consumption of high fructose corn syrup increased at the same time.

What the research shows

"It's just sugar," says Marion Nestle, PhD, a professor of nutrition and public health at New York University. "Biochemically, there's no difference."

The high fructose corn syrups commonly used to sweeten foods and drinks are 55-58% fructose and 42-45% glucose. Sucrose (cane sugar) is a double sugar made of fructose and glucose. Digestion quickly breaks down cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup into fructose and glucose.

"There's a little bit more fructose in high fructose corn syrup, but not a lot," Nestle says. "It doesn't really make any difference. The body can't tell them apart." The American Medical Association recently stated that there is scant evidence to support the idea that high fructose corn syrup is any worse than cane sugar and that consuming too much sugar of either kind is unhealthy.