Caffeine + HFCS = teh Sux0rs

note: I had not yet had a chance to read wcuk before posting this . . . what appropriate timing.

The latter half of Monday was one of the most unbearable stretches of work I've yet experienced. It was only partially due to what was going on at work.

As soon as I got home, I put a potato in the oven and went to sleep. I woke up about thirty seconds before the timer went off. I ate, then went back to sleep. Around 8:30pm, I got in bed . . . it was still a bit light out. It's now 3:50am and I've been folding clothes, watching BloombergTV and reading for the past hour or so.

Why? Because caffeine + high-fructose corn syrup = grumpus-wumpus. The effects of Caffeine and other methylated xanthines are[1] well-documented[2]. The jury is still[3] out[4] on the full effects of High-Fructose Corn Syrup. You can pick and choose your studies all you want -- I know how the one-two combo of caffeine and HFCS makes me feel at the end of the day.

One little note: whenever a discussion of HFCS comes up, there is always someone saying that HFCS is just 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose . . . nearly identical to the 50/50 split that composes table sugar. This is not entirely true. Table sugar is actually sucrose, which is an entity completely separate from its constituent parts, fructose and glucose, due to dehydration synthesis/glycosidic linkage. Thus, sucrose requires hydrolysis in the body to become 50:50 fructose:glucose (I believe amylase catalyzes the reaction). Chemistry lesson over.