Everybody loves ice-cream. Tons of people love doughnuts, chocolates, bakeries, soft drinks, and all types of food which is high in sugar. It's heaven for most people, a stimulant, yet very addictive. Why everyone can't get enough of sugary processed food? Let's find out about this addiction and the epidemic which causes whole hosts of chronic diseases including diabetes, obesity, gout, heart disease, cancer and etc.
Sugar is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed foods from pretzels to cheese spread to yogurts and the list goes on. And now, most of the infant milk formulas has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.
You don't have to be a scientist or physician to notice the waistline of the people in this country, and most industrialized nations. All you have to do, is stroll through shopping malls, offices, schools, fast food outlets, and even what's in front of you, MIRROR! Sounds familiar? You bet.
Alright. Let's do a bit of sugar 101 lesson before we go into more details and technical about the sugar's devastating effects on health and body. What is sugar exactly? Everyone claims to know about sugar, but do they really know the types of sugar consumed by each and everyone of us? Well, there are various forms of sugar available in food products. Dextrose, fructose, glucose, sucrose are the common forms of sugar. The primary difference between them is how your body metabolizes them.
The primary difference between them is how your body metabolizes them. Glucose and dextrose are essentially the same sugar. However, food manufacturers usually use the term “dextrose” in their ingredient list. The simple sugars can combine to form more complex sugars, like sucrose (table sugar), which is half glucose and half fructose. Sugar alcohols like xylitol, glycerol, sorbitol, maltitol, are neither sugars nor alcohols but are becoming increasingly popular as sweeteners. They are incompletely absorbed from your small intestine, for the most part, so they provide fewer calories than sugar but often cause problems with bloating, diarrhea and flatulence. Sucralose , or also known as Splenda, is NOT a sugar, despite its sugar-like name and deceptive marketing slogan, “made from sugar.” It’s a chlorinated artificial sweetener in line with aspartame and saccharin, with detrimental health effects to match. Next, we have Agave syrup, falsely advertised as “natural,” is typically HIGHLY processed and is usually 80 percent fructose. The end product does not even remotely resemble the original agave plant. Meanwhile, we have honey, it is about 53% fructose, but is completely natural in its raw form and has many health benefits when used in moderation. I might have left out some of the other forms of sugar, but at least the mentioned above is what I can think of at the moment.
Glucose is the form of energy you were designed to run on. Every cell in your body, every bacterium and in fact, every living thing on the Earth uses glucose for energy. Glucose could be considered as 'neutral' sugar, and do not have so much devastative effects compared to fructose and HFCS. I will elaborate more in details about fructose and HFCS later in coming series of this topic.
I will primarily focus on fructose and HFCS impact for this post, and I will try to break it down in a few episodes. Both of them are the 'bad boys' amongst the whole bunch of sugar family. Has anyone study biochemistry? How about the metabolism or sugar in the liver? Does anyone realise the metabolism of fructose and glucose is different when both of these sugar hit your liver? Yes, this is what I want to share with all of you readers out there. The unique metabolism of fructose in our body, especially liver, and what it will do to us, our health and the truth about obesity, diabetes, lipid problems, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, gout and many other health conditions will be revealed soon in this discussion.
If your diet was like that of people a century ago, you would consume about 15 grams per day, a far cry from the 73 grams per day the typical person gets from sweetened drinks. In vegetables and fruits, it’s mixed in with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and beneficial phytonutrients, all which moderate the negative metabolic effects. Amazingly, there are lots of people actually consume more than 120 grams of fructose per day!
Making matters worse, all of the fiber has been removed from processed foods, so there is essentially no nutritive value at all. And the very products most people rely on to lose weight, the low-fat diet foods, are often the ones highest in fructose.
The evidence linking fructose to today's epidemic of obesity, cardiovascular disease, as well as other medical conditions are as solid as the scientific data that connected smoking to lung cancer in the late 1950's. Fructose diet is a new concept in weight loss and disease prevention. Welcome to the revolution. Stay tuned for next post.
Sugar is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed foods from pretzels to cheese spread to yogurts and the list goes on. And now, most of the infant milk formulas has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.
You don't have to be a scientist or physician to notice the waistline of the people in this country, and most industrialized nations. All you have to do, is stroll through shopping malls, offices, schools, fast food outlets, and even what's in front of you, MIRROR! Sounds familiar? You bet.
Alright. Let's do a bit of sugar 101 lesson before we go into more details and technical about the sugar's devastating effects on health and body. What is sugar exactly? Everyone claims to know about sugar, but do they really know the types of sugar consumed by each and everyone of us? Well, there are various forms of sugar available in food products. Dextrose, fructose, glucose, sucrose are the common forms of sugar. The primary difference between them is how your body metabolizes them.
The primary difference between them is how your body metabolizes them. Glucose and dextrose are essentially the same sugar. However, food manufacturers usually use the term “dextrose” in their ingredient list. The simple sugars can combine to form more complex sugars, like sucrose (table sugar), which is half glucose and half fructose. Sugar alcohols like xylitol, glycerol, sorbitol, maltitol, are neither sugars nor alcohols but are becoming increasingly popular as sweeteners. They are incompletely absorbed from your small intestine, for the most part, so they provide fewer calories than sugar but often cause problems with bloating, diarrhea and flatulence. Sucralose , or also known as Splenda, is NOT a sugar, despite its sugar-like name and deceptive marketing slogan, “made from sugar.” It’s a chlorinated artificial sweetener in line with aspartame and saccharin, with detrimental health effects to match. Next, we have Agave syrup, falsely advertised as “natural,” is typically HIGHLY processed and is usually 80 percent fructose. The end product does not even remotely resemble the original agave plant. Meanwhile, we have honey, it is about 53% fructose, but is completely natural in its raw form and has many health benefits when used in moderation. I might have left out some of the other forms of sugar, but at least the mentioned above is what I can think of at the moment.
Glucose is the form of energy you were designed to run on. Every cell in your body, every bacterium and in fact, every living thing on the Earth uses glucose for energy. Glucose could be considered as 'neutral' sugar, and do not have so much devastative effects compared to fructose and HFCS. I will elaborate more in details about fructose and HFCS later in coming series of this topic.
I will primarily focus on fructose and HFCS impact for this post, and I will try to break it down in a few episodes. Both of them are the 'bad boys' amongst the whole bunch of sugar family. Has anyone study biochemistry? How about the metabolism or sugar in the liver? Does anyone realise the metabolism of fructose and glucose is different when both of these sugar hit your liver? Yes, this is what I want to share with all of you readers out there. The unique metabolism of fructose in our body, especially liver, and what it will do to us, our health and the truth about obesity, diabetes, lipid problems, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, gout and many other health conditions will be revealed soon in this discussion.
If your diet was like that of people a century ago, you would consume about 15 grams per day, a far cry from the 73 grams per day the typical person gets from sweetened drinks. In vegetables and fruits, it’s mixed in with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and beneficial phytonutrients, all which moderate the negative metabolic effects. Amazingly, there are lots of people actually consume more than 120 grams of fructose per day!
Making matters worse, all of the fiber has been removed from processed foods, so there is essentially no nutritive value at all. And the very products most people rely on to lose weight, the low-fat diet foods, are often the ones highest in fructose.
The evidence linking fructose to today's epidemic of obesity, cardiovascular disease, as well as other medical conditions are as solid as the scientific data that connected smoking to lung cancer in the late 1950's. Fructose diet is a new concept in weight loss and disease prevention. Welcome to the revolution. Stay tuned for next post.
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