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It's not corn syrup that's bad. It's the "High Fructose Corn Syrup." They chemically engineer normal good stuff to "stick on" extra fructose chains - fructose is "fruit sugar," basically. Corn syrup is corn sugar. So, HFCS is "High fruit sugar corn sugar."
The reason it is bad bad stuff is because the addition of fructose give it the unique property of blocking the chemical pathways from your stomach to your brain that send the "I'm full" signal. Thus, you never feel full, so you eat larger portions, consuming more calories than you need, which your body stores as fat.
Corn syrup isn't *good* for you, but it's not as bad as HFCS.
My wife and I do everything we can to keep HFCS out of the foods we eat. When we started doing that about 1.5 years ago, we noticed we both felt better, ate less, and had more "get-up-and-go" in the mornings.
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