Furthermore, this harmful
effect of fructose does not require high blood glucose or blood insulin levels to wreak havoc.
Not exact matches
The harmful
effects of Agave (and sugar in general) actually have very little to
do with the glycemic index but everything to
do with the large amounts
of fructose... and Agave nectar is very high in
fructose.
Eating fresh fruit provides us with some
of the sweetness that we like but
does not give large doses
of fructose, and its antioxidants, including vitamin C, can block some
of the
effects of fructose.
Also worth noting: the soybean plus
fructose diet had less severe metabolic
effects compared to the soybean oil diet, but it
did cause more negative
effects in the kidney and a marked increase in prolapsed rectums, a symptom
of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which like obesity is on the rise.
I've been
doing a lot
of digging into the
effects that sugar (particularly
fructose) has on the body, and it's been an astonishing little research project.
Interesting to note that for athletes
fructose does have an especially positive
effect on replenishing glycogen stores in the liver as the body becomes energy depleted, instead
of the
fructose becoming fat as is the case for energy replete people.
Recent studies show that
fructose doesn't have the same kind
of effect on satiety as glucose.
Honey
does have an
effect on your blood sugar with a
fructose count
of about 53 %.
This sort
of simplistic theory
does not account for, among other things, the deadly
effect of fructose, the time dependency
of insulin resistance, animal protein, fibre, vinegar and fermentation
effects, or dietary fat.