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Glucose is harmless and can be metabolised by any cell in your body, while Fructose can only be metabolised by your liver and produced a bunch of undesirable me

Glucose is harmless and can be metabolised by any cell in your body, while Fructose can only be metabolised by your liver and produced a bunch of undesirable metabolic end products in the process. It also blocks leptin, the antagonist of insulin and therefore messes with your metabolic regulation, while glucose does none of that. If you feed rats large amounts of glucose they will get a very big liver but stay otherwise healthy, if you feed them fructose they will develop diabetes... This is all very well known.

rurban 9y ago
Glucose being harmless is the understatement of the year. In the end fructose and every other carb is split up to glucose. And glucose (the simple monosaccharide sugar) is one of the most powerful medicines and drugs, stronger, cheaper and better than cocaine, and responsible for many severe illnesses: * Retinal damage to the eye * Arterial blockage * Oxidative stress * Increased inflammation * Endothelial dysfunction * Reduced coronary blood flow * Increased cancer risk Let me just point to http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2011/1/glucose-the-silent-killer/page-01 http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2011/1/glucose-the-sil... or https://www.atkins.com/how-it-works/library/articles/10-ways-sugar-harms-your-health https://www.atkins.com/how-it-works/library/articles/10-ways... This is all very well known and ignored by the US sugar industry which rather blames other factors. If you feed americans large amounts of glucose (they do), they will get obese and die early. You cannot argue with the numbers, because it's mostly only affecting americans who do consume sugar levels above the health risk. Blaming fructose and the liver alone is dangerous. It's the end product, glucose, and the fat reserves, not the carb. metabolism.

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Glucose is harmless and can be metabolised by any cell in your body, while Fructose can only be metabolised by your liver and produced a bunch of undesirable me

by orbifold 9y ago

rurban 9y ago
Glucose being harmless is the understatement of the year. In the end fructose and every other carb is split up to glucose. And glucose (the simple monosaccharide sugar) is one of the most powerful medicines and drugs, stronger, cheaper and better than cocaine, and responsible for many severe illnesses: * Retinal damage to the eye * Arterial blockage * Oxidative stress * Increased inflammation * Endothelial dysfunction * Reduced coronary blood flow * Increased cancer risk Let me just point to http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2011/1/glucose-the-silent-killer/page-01 http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2011/1/glucose-the-sil... or https://www.atkins.com/how-it-works/library/articles/10-ways-sugar-harms-your-health https://www.atkins.com/how-it-works/library/articles/10-ways... This is all very well known and ignored by the US sugar industry which rather blames other factors. If you feed americans large amounts of glucose (they do), they will get obese and die early. You cannot argue with the numbers, because it's mostly only affecting americans who do consume sugar levels above the health risk. Blaming fructose and the liver alone is dangerous. It's the end product, glucose, and the fat reserves, not the carb. metabolism.