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"The Doctor of the Future will give No Medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the Human Frame, in Diet, and in the Cause and Prevention of Disease."

Thomas A. Edison

Today's Topic:

The Trouble with Fructose

Part II

The Bitter Truth?

 

Watch this Video

and

Read Dr. Mercola's Article

 

You'll think twice about

Putting Fructose in Your Mouth

 

Content:

1. Watch

Sugar - The Bitter Truth

Watch this video by

Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco

2. Read Dr. Mercola's

Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener Called Fructose Is Far More Deadly
(Part II) I

Story at-a-glance

• A 2009 study from the University of California, Davis shows how a high-fructose diet can cause you to build new fat cells around your heart, liver, and digestive organs in just 10 weeks, plunging you into the early stages of diabetes and heart disease (whereas a high glucose diet did not have the same effects)
• Excess fructose consumption is a major contributor to insulin resistance and obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer, arthritis, and other diseases
• Fructose is metabolized very differently in your body from glucose; all of the metabolic burden falls on your liver, in much the same way as for alcohol, and your body becomes a sea of toxic byproducts
• Glucose, on the other hand, is your body’s nearly ideal source of fuel, meaning it has none of the damaging metabolic effects of fructose; glucose also suppresses your appetite, unlike fructose, which stimulates your appetite and encourages overeating and the accumulation of excess body fat

Introduction

Big Gulp, Meet Big Belt

High Fructose Corn Syrup Has Only Been Around One Generation!

The War on Fat

Justification for Low-Fat Diet

Proof that Sugar Cause Obesity

Fructose is NOT the Same as Glucose

There are Two Types of LDL -- and Only One is Bad

Fiber Foregone

The Molecule that Makes Fat Stick to You

Carbohydrate Biochemistry 101

I. Glucose Metabolism
II. Ethanol Metabolism
III. Fructose Metabolism

The Neurochemical Basis for Gluttony

Big Fat Lies From the Corn Industry

What's a Sugarholic to Do?

A Word of Warning About Infant Formula

What Else Does the Science Say about the Health Impact of Fructose?

[+] Sources and References

Introduction

• What if you were to learn that every day, 25 percent of your calories came from a poison, disguised as a food?
  
  
• And what if you discovered that this chemical imposter was responsible for your insulin resistance and weight gain?
  
  
• And elevated blood pressure ...
  
  
• And elevated triglycerides and LDL ...
  
  
• And depletion of vitamins and minerals ...
  
  
• And even gout, heart disease and liver damage?
  
  
• What if you were to discover that this toxic substance had been dumped into your food in gradually increasing quantities for the last thirty years, with the full knowledge and blessings of the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the USDA and the FDA?
  
  
• Would you be angry?

I wish I could tell you that this is just a dramatic plot from some fiction novel, but it's actually a shocking reality.

The substance dealing such a crushing blow to your health and responsible for many, if not most of the chronic diseases that are so rampant in our society, is sugar -- and more specifically, fructose.

We now know without a doubt that sugar in your food, in all its myriad of forms, is taking a devastating toll on the health of this nation.

By the end of this article, you will have a solid understanding of how and why this has happened. In order to really grasp this material, you'll have to learn a little of the biochemistry of energy, which is rather technical. But hang in there -- the knowledge you're about to gain, and the impact it will have on your health, will be well worth the effort.

I will try my best to make the more technical aspects as simple as I can for you.

Big Gulp, Meet Big Belt

We are eating far more than we were 25 years ago.

On average, men are consuming 187 more calories per day, and women 335 more calories. People who were never heavy before are becoming overweight, and the obese are becoming more so. We are now a "supersized" population.

But why?

Read Dr. Mercola's complete article....

My Best for the New Year

Dr. Z