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I am not a fan of soda/high sugar diets, but was this experiment set up to test that?

"Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) fed two groups of rats a solution containing high-fructose corn syrup -- a common ingredient in processed foods -- as drinking water for six weeks.

One group of rats was supplemented with brain-boosting omega-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), while the other group was not."

seems like it was set to see the effectiveness of DHA as that's the variable and both groups were fed sugar. or am i reading this wrong? its late