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After watching this all, I think the take-home-message was that, for fairly complex biochemical reasons, fructose (which is also a component of sucrose) is a pa
by gort 17y ago
After watching this all, I think the take-home-message was that, for fairly complex biochemical reasons, fructose (which is also a component of sucrose) is a particularly bad sugar. For one thing, it doesn't cause satiety very well, and for another, it does some damage directly which glucose, nature's preferred sugar, does not.
- ahoyhere 17y agoMy real takeaway was this: Everybody always treats science as if it's a sure thing. But you can have every statement you make be true, and still be wrong overall, because you missed something important. Like the 7 Countries study, where the author didn't regress with fat-vs-sugar. Everything he said was true, but he was wrong in the end. (Oh, yeah, and fructose is awful and mass food producers are poisoning us. But I knew that already. Many restaurants, not just fast food restaurants, even put high-fructose corn syrup in meat.)