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Yeah, the language mix-up is making it hard to tell people. We "know" that the brain eats sugar and that sugar is a simple form of energy. Unfortunately this ap
by anon4 11y ago
Yeah, the language mix-up is making it hard to tell people. We "know" that the brain eats sugar and that sugar is a simple form of energy. Unfortunately this applies to glucose specifically, not to any sugar-class molecule and not to the white crystalline powder called table sugar. Glucose is ok for you. Practically every tissue in your body can use it right away. Fructose is, as you said, metabolised in the liver, and is practically toxic. Table sugar and HFCS are both 50-50 fructose-glucose and biologically equivalent.
- sjwright 11y agoTable sugar is sucrose, which is a molecular combination of fructose and glucose. HFCS is, as I understand it, just a bunch of fructose and glucose mixed together. Does that make them biologically equivalent? I've always been curious about that. I recall reading a claim that the body's need to split the sucrose molecule makes it lower impact than if it were pre-split.
- teslabox 11y agoMany producers' batches of HFCS used to be contaminated with mercury [1]. Thanks to the efforts of a lone FDA whistleblower, industry no longer uses mercury to make this substance. But high fructose corn syrup may still be contaminated with starch - chains of glucose - thereby giving HFCS a much higher calorie count than is on the label. Sugar is fine if your liver is healthy. It keeps me from wasting away. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...