Refined cane
sugar (sucrose) isn't really any less evil, chemically,
than HFCS, but it tastes better.
Actually it is. While too much sugar in your blood is bad from an
insulin level and resistance point of view, the glucose part of sucrose
can be metabolized by any cell in your body. fructose OTOH can only be
metabolized by liver cells, and in the process causes damage to your
liver - as much as alcohol, and in the same ways, without any of the
enjoyment.
see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
That new agave syrup stuff is an abomination, it's a super high fructose
syrup.
K, time for medical reality before this swings too wide.
- Truth: fructose metabolism is essentially exclusive to the liver.
- Truth: people who report a large amount of fructose intake also have
higher rates of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and upregulation of the
enzymes responsible for fructose metabolism in liver biopsies.
- Not yet? truth: an actual smoking gun. Many such studies haven't controlled
for other liver-deleterious dietary problems (and to their credit admit
it), and because of recall bias, may not be able to control for it by
design. It is entirely possible that it's a marker, not a cause, and other
factors may lead to the liver damage. See, for example,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423467/?tool=pmcentrez
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15051594 [full text available]
If we wanted to be totally non-evil, then we should be all eating glucose,
but if you've tasted glucose you will also realize that based on the taste
demands of the populace, that won't happen.
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