High fructose means added added sugar.

The introduction of high fructose corn syrup into the American diet just happens to coincide with the spike of obesity in this country. Earthfare Natural Supermarkets have banned the sale and use of HFCS in products in their stores. I haven't heard of Whole Foods or Wild Oats doing the same but then I haven't been to their sites lately.

their both something else.

High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is any of a group of corn syrups which have undergone enzymatic processing in order to increase their fructose content and are then mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose) to reach their final form. Corn Syrup is a viscous, sweet syrup produced by breaking down (hydrolyzing) cornstarch, either by heating it with a dilute acid or by combining it with enzymes. Cornstarch, or cornflour, is the starch of the maize grain, commonly known as corn.

HFCS is very bad for you. Between 1980 and 1994, average fructose consumption rose from 39 pounds per year to 83 pounds per year. Fructose contains no enzymes, vitamins or minerals, and it leeches micronutrients from the body. Unbound fructose, found in large quantities in HFCS, can interfere with the heart's use of minerals such as magnesium, copper and chromium. Fructose also reduces the affinity of insulin for its receptor, which is the principle characteristic of type 2 diabetes. HFCS has been implicated in elevated blood cholesterol levels, and it has been found to inhibit the action of the immune system's white blood cells. Drinking high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), the main ingredient in most soft drinks throughout the world, increases your triglyceride levels and your LDL (bad) cholesterol. These effects only occurred in the study participants who drank fructose -- not glucose. Consumption of beverages containing fructose rose 135 percent between 1977 and 2001. Food and beverage manufacturers began switching their sweeteners from sucrose (table sugar) to corn syrup in the 1970s when they discovered that HFCS was not only cheaper to make, it was also much sweeter (processed fructose is nearly 20 times sweeter than table sugar), a switch that has drastically altered the American diet. In 1966, sucrose made up 86 percent of sweeteners. Today, 55 percent of sweeteners used are made from corn. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/07/10/how-high-fructose-corn-syrup-damages-your-body.aspx