Meryl Horn

She got 52 adults and they actually had them move into the wing of a hospital for three days in the beginning of the experiment where they could run a battery of tests on them.

And this was to check for stuff like triglycerides and cholesterol.

They also got liver MRIs done since some of those triglycerides can build up in the liver too, which is not good.

And they basically wanted to get a really good baseline of where people are at before they started giving them any sugar.

Like everyone had to eat the same food while they were there, like salad.

She defended it.

She was like, no, this was like a tossed salad.

So it had tomatoes, cucumbers.

Oh.

But people did seem to like the next part of the experiment more.

They get to go home now and they get to drink lots and lots of Kool-Aid.

What was the Kool-Aid flavor?

Was it the fruit punch one?

And the Kool-Aid they got was sweetened with either table sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

Yes, exactly.

Okay.

Yeah, they had to have it three times a day and they didn't know which one they were getting.

So now after 12 days of that, they go back to the hospital again so they can redo all those tests.

And now we can finally see how bad the high fructose corn syrup is.

So I asked Kimber, was high fructose corn syrup any worse for people than normal table sugar?