Did not know that
about the fructose going to liver cells and glucose going to muscle cells!
Not exact matches
Going into all the harmful effects of excess
fructose is beyond the scope of this article, but you can read
about them here.
Although their processing may be different — you are still talking
about an end result that is exceptionally high in
fructose — we just do not need to
go there with all the other healthier and more natural sweeteners available — and besides — for REAL health one must cut sugar across the board — white death, ya know?
Uh — my biggest concern is a lot of the infants that are gonna be fed formula, if you look at a lot of the ingredients, it's
about 50 % high
fructose corn syrup.
This
goes the same for any heavily processed foods with added sugar or HFCS but you asked
about fruit, fruit juice is obviously not as bad as other high
fructose foods as it contains phytonutrients, antioxidants etc. but my point is that excessive juice consumption can also be very dangerous.
Next point... and I don't think this even needs to be mentioned, but if you care
about your body, any drink that uses soda pop as the mixer is
going to be loaded with sugar (usually high
fructose corn syrup) and calories.
It might just be that you are sensitive to these fodmaps and there are charts, I'll link to one in the show notes for folks listening in where you can
go print a fodmap chart, slap it on your fridge for a week, and avoid the foods that are high in fodmaps so we're talking
about foods typically like foods that contain a lot of
fructose, a lot of melons, you know unfortunately in the summer are high in fodmaps, dairy is high in lactose part of fodmaps, a lot of legumes like kidney beans and baked beans and stuff like that, no surprise there.
Think of a woman who works in a claustrophobic cubicle for the Chicago Tribune trying to work up enthusiasm for the dangers of high
fructose corn syrup who is suddenly offered the chance to
go to Afghanistan near the middle of war and to be on special guard only partly for the whims of the Taliban but mostly for the macho journalists and Marines who outnumber her
about fifty to one.