It may well be that sugar, not fat, is one of the biggest leaders to heart disease due to the
harmful effects of fructose on the metabolism.
Other negative
effects of fructose include increased risk to type - 2 diabetes, alcoholic fatty liver disease, leptin resistance and sugar addiction among others.
In Wednesday's Tribune, we look at the growing body of research into potentially dangerous
effects of fructose in our diet.
Research also shows that drinking a single 24 - ounce fructose - sweetened beverage leads to greater increases in blood pressure over 24 hours than drinking a sucrose - sweetened beverage, 5 which again points to the detrimental
effects of fructose on your health.
Glucose, on the other hand, is your body's nearly ideal source of fuel, meaning it has none of the damaging
metabolic effects of fructose; glucose also suppresses your appetite, unlike fructose, which stimulates your appetite and encourages overeating and the accumulation of excess body fat
Furthermore, this harmful
effect of fructose does not require high blood glucose or blood insulin levels to wreak havoc.
Keep in mind that none of this applies to whole fruit, which are extremely healthy and have plenty of fiber that mitigates the
negative effects of fructose.
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.
One of the reasons for this is believed to be because whole fruits contain high amounts of natural antioxidants, as well as other synergistic compounds that may help counter the
detrimental effects of fructose.
I could maybe eat one of these before suffering
the effects of the fructose overdose, but I would enjoy that one!
About 1 in 3 people experience symptoms of IBS have fructose malabsorption.1
The effect of fructose malabsorption is exaggerated in people with IBS compared with those without IBS.1, 2 What is fructose and -LSB-...]
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.
Kayan began working under the supervision of Dr. Kathleen Page and currently, he is helping with Dr. Page's study to determine
the effects of fructose and glucose on eating habits.
To examine
the effects of fructose restriction, the participants followed a weight - maintenance diet that reduced sugar and fructose to 10 % and 4 % of total calories, respectively, and replaced it with starch.
This includes all desserts, and even fruit juice products - which have a lot of fructose without the benefit of fiber, which can reduce some of
the effects of the fructose.
The study looked at
the effects of fructose — in the form of cane sugar (sucrose), high - fructose corn syrup, and corn syrup — which is found in the American diet in everything from soft drinks to baby food.
Also, the phytonutrients, antioxidants, and fiber that's contained in most whole fruits counteracts any negative
effects of fructose.
Though fruits contain sugar, they are considered extremely healthy as their high fiber content mitigates the negative
effects of fructose.
The GI index completely ignores
the effect of fructose and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)(4).
Looking at the glycemic index, the effect of glucose is obvious, but
the effect of fructose is completely hidden.
The effects of fructose on insulin resistance also appear to affect people who don't have diabetes, as reported in an analysis of 29 studies including a total of 1,005 normal and overweight or obese participants.
Unfortunately, one out of every four children in the United States consumes above the recommended 25 % of total energy intake from sweeteners [42] and the harmful
effects of fructose have been extensively studied in healthy, non-diabetic patients.
Take for example
the effects of fructose when consumed in a fruit as opposed to when a chemically identical fructose is consumed in the absence of the incredible array of vitamins and fibers that would be present in an orange.