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Fruit juice may be good for your telomeres, but there are plenty of other reasons to be suspicious of it---"bro-science" it is not. For example, Google "fruit j
by pc2g4d 12y ago
Fruit juice may be good for your telomeres, but there are plenty of other reasons to be suspicious of it---"bro-science" it is not. For example, Google "fruit juice and obesity" or see http://blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea/2012/03/09/shout-it-from-the-rooftops-juice-is-not-natural/ http://blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea/2012/03/09/shout-it-fro...
And besides, who says a "bro" can't science? ;)
- mikeyouse 12y ago> And besides, who says a "bro" can't science? ;) Very fair point. I guess I've been exposed to too many paleo "all sugar is equally evil" bros lately. They can certainly science with the rest of them. Hell, Kary Mullis won a Nobel for inventing PCR which he practically did from his surf board. Although his later absurdity^ re: AIDS / Astrology / Climate Change might give some more credence to keeping the bros out of science ;-) ^Absurdity not absurdism
- theoh 12y agoAbsurdism is something quite different...
- mikeyouse 12y agoYeah, wow, thanks for the correction.. Can you tell that the Myth of Sisyphus is on my bedside table right now?
- Freestyler_3 12y agoAnd how about sugar in honey? I just wonder.
- colechristensen 12y agoBoth honey and high fructose corn syrup are > 85% water, fructose, and glucose in ratios similar enough to not make a difference. Unless something in the remaining few percent is protective for honey and or harmful for HFCS, it's doubtful that there's a difference health-wise.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoWell, to be fair, the remaining few percent of honey has some ridiculously fancy enzyme action going on, an eminently plausible mechanism for inducing protective benefits and anecdotally suspected of being vaguely beneficial to health.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoHealth-wise, I know which one I would be reaching for first if I needed to treat a wound. I haven't yet heard of medical grade HFCS. http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/11/1677.full http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/11/1677.full
- selecting 12y agoLate to the party, but... There does seem to be a difference between honey and refined sugar that is worth noting. This study compared rats eating lots of starch, glucose + fructose or honey: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/132/11/3379.full.pdf+html http://jn.nutrition.org/content/132/11/3379.full.pdf+html This blogpost displays some of its data in nice, colorful bar charts: http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/2010/10/high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-sweet.html http://blog.cholesterol-and-health.com/2010/10/high-fructose...
- colechristensen 12y agoThere are some significant problems drawing conclusions from that study about what you should eat. * The study was done on rats * n=9/group * They used fructose/glucose from a laboratory supplier, not HFCS from a supplier used by food manufacturers * They fed the rats 100% starch/fructose+glucose/honey and vitamins (real people have varied diets) The conclusions you should draw are that A) eating a diet of 100% HCFS is probably a bad thing (duh) and B) honey has antioxidants. So if you replace your HFCS with honey, you don't need to get as many antioxidants from other sources. Were they to control for antioxidant content, this study might be a bit more interesting.
- 31reasons 12y agoJust because Kary Mullis is a surfer does that make him a "bro"? He was a proper scientist when he invented PCR. Although he did quit science to manage a bakery for 2 years!