sugar & hfcs: poison?

The New York Times site has a preview of an article to run in this Sunday's magazine about whether sugar and HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup, apparently initially marketed in the last decades of the last century as a healthier alternative to the then-demonized sugar) are not just empty calories, but toxic in themselves:

Lustig certainly doesn’t dabble in shades of gray. Sugar is not just an empty calorie, he says; its effect on us is much more insidious. “It’s not about the calories,” he says. “It has nothing to do with the calories. It’s a poison by itself.”

Check it out.