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I watched it a while ago but I did not understand what was the key idea that he wanted to say. Okay, the corn syrup is just fructose, and as I understood from

I watched it a while ago but I did not understand what was the key idea that he wanted to say. Okay, the corn syrup is just fructose, and as I understood from the lecture it's equivalent to poison so we should avoid it. But then sugar from plants and fruit also contains fructose! For every gram of natural sugar there is half a gram of fructose. If we eat natural sugar it seems equivalently bad? I don't get it. So what does the lecture tell? Does it say we shouldn't be consuming sugar at all? Or should we only be consuming glucose part of sugar? Or what? Can anyone explain? Thanks!

gaius 17y ago
IIRC T-nation had an article on this. Fructose in an apple is OK because the fibre etc means it is absorbed more slowly. The body isn't designed to have a huge amount of fast-digesting carbs dumped into it in one go - even if the total calories are the same.
fauigerzigerk 17y ago
I think what he means is that the amount of fructose you get from eating fruit is much less as a proportion of beneficial nutrients than if you were drinking fruit juice or stuff with high fructose corn syrup added. I think the main message is to avoid fructose in all forms. The rest is basically ABC analysis. Identify where most of your fructose intake originates from and cut down on that source.