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Are You Afraid that the Fructose Boogieman Clogs Up Your Liver? Citrulline or Alanine, Glycine, Proline, Histidine and Aspartate Mix Will Protect You + Maybe Lean You Out

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If you belong to the people who simply cannot stay away from HFCS foods and beverages, you may be happy to hear that the equivalent of as little as 10g citrulline or NEAAs in your diet may do much more than "just" fully prevent its negative effects on your liver. You will probably remember from previous articles I wrote that NAFLD, or rather the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is one of the earliest markers of metabolic syndrome and beginning type II diabetes. In the Western obesity societies in North America and Europe, NAFLD is among the most common causes of chronic liver disease and its prevalence is increasing rampantly (Marchesini. 2001). In spite of the fact that its development is most strongly linked to the consumption of a generally unhealthy, energetically dense diet, there are several lines of evidence which suggest that the ingestion of exorbitant amounts of fast-digesting fructose from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) sweetened beverages ...
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What's Worse for Your Body Composition & Liver Health? 10g of Sugar from Coke or the Same 10g From Cookies? Plus: Liquid Sucrose is Harder on the Liver Than Fructose

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Hard do believe, but the 10g from coke may actually do more harm than the same amount from cookies. If you want to scare me away from a discussion about the "fat problems" the US and large parts of Europe are struggling with, you just have to repeat Taubs'ian statements such as "if we had not eaten carbohydrates all the mess wouldn't have happened." It's certainly true that the exorbitant and mislead carbohydrate intake and the psyochological consequences ("Fat is bad, isn't it?") of the "low fat" decades from the 1970-1990s is part of the problem, but when we look closer, it's not as simple as to say "we don't eat enough fat". As Yvonne Ritze and her colleagues from the University of Hohenheim , the Technische Universität München , and the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center in Rorschach (Switzerland) write in their latest paper in PLoS One , it's rather the unhealthy conglomerate of "changes in ...
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Fructose - An Update: "Fructose Has Adverse Effects Only Insofar as It Contributes to Excess Calories" Plus: The Role of Exercise + Meta-Analyses on BP, Weight Gain & T2D

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It's incredible... for some, but probably not unexpected for most of us that fructose becomes problematic in overfeeding scenarios, only. Some of you will probably have seen the press release from the St. Michel's Hospital that made it onto all the major science outlets on the Internet and up on Alex' Facebook page, where he tagged me and thus got me interested in a study that claims to provide evidence that: " Fructose does not impact emerging indicator for cardiovascular disease " | read more . The main goal of the corresponding paper that has been published in the Atherosclerosis earlier this months (Wang. 2014) was to identify and analyze all clinical interventions that investigated the chronic effect of exchanging isocaloric or hypercaloric oral fructose for a reference carbohydrate on postprandial triglycerides. Update - Coca Cola & Co buy a white slate for their sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB): Shortly after publishing my analysis of the meta...
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Melato Cola™ or What? Fructose for Improved Glucose Metabolism and Melatonin to Counter Fructose Overload

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There was a time, when Coke still contained "coke"... so why not add some melatonin for health benefits? I am obviously just kidding here, but a combination of fructose + melatonin may actually make sense. The title of today's SuppVersity article is confusing, I know. Firstly, it contains the almost heretical notion that fructose could actually improve instead of impair your glucose metabolism and secondly it does not appear to make sense that you would have to use melatonin to counter the pro-diabetic effects of fructose, if the latter is in fact so good for you. Before you are getting totally confused, let me clarify how the improvements in glucose metabolism and the melatonin-powered diabesity protection go together: Both have been observed in a recent study from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Cardinali. 2013), in the course of which the improved glucose metabolism was nothing but a side-finding of a study Cardinali et ...
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Dietary Fructose vs. Endogenous Fructose Production: Is The Aldose Reductase Mediated Production of Fructose to Blame for Diabesity & NAFLD? Plus: Could Amla Help?

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Make you choice - cholesterol and regular sugar (left), or fat free and fructose-laden? In the end it all may not even matter. When I stumbled upon a recent study from the University of Colorado a few days ago, my first thought was: Oh my! That sounds familiar. And indeed, if you know anything about the "cholesterol conundrum" you will probably feel reminded of the disconnect between cholesterol intake, cholesterol levels in the blood and cholesterol-related increases in cardiovascular disease risk - don't forget that this is still an issue, although it may neither be your dietary cholesterol or your total cholesterol levels that mediate the risk increases. Looks like you cannot pick your poison, because whatever you chose, your body will produce what it considers fitting from it According to the said study from the University of Colorado it does in fact seem that our current favorite villain, namely fructose, has more in common with its predecessor on the throne...
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Glucose vs. Fructose and Their Effects on Glucose, Insulin & Fat Oxidation in Men on Both Ends of the BMI Spectrum

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"Fructose handles"? "Glucose handles"? "Saturated fat handles"? No, just the net result of a trashy diet. I don't have to tell you that I don't buy into the "fructose is the devil" hysteria that's rampant in the blogosphere and certain parts of the scientific community. It's a matter of quantity and quality that determines the toxicity of a poison and in most of the "convincing" evidence on the detrimental effects fructose. I mean let's be honest, you don't have to be a rocket scientists to figure out that 5+ cans of Coke a day cannot be good for you (cf. "Fat Content Per Energy Drink 0g, Body Fat Gain Per Energy Drink 18g!"; read more ) "194 Bananas in Three Weeks", on the other hand, are nothing to be afraid of ( learn why ).Have we been fooled again or is it just a high fructose corn syrup producer conspiracy? Enough of the rants, let's get to the facts! I guess that's en...
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Four Weeks "On" Two Cans of Energy Drink = 6.6% Increase in Body Fat + Other "Adaptations" in Healthy Men & Women

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Contrary to regular coffee, the majority of energy drinks ensures that you get your daily (over-)dose of diabesity promoting sugar - so, no need for additional white poison. If you are following the SuppVersity news closely, I am sure you will remember the note on the carcinogenic, or rather "breast cancer risk increasing" effect a single cup of soda per week can have ( read more ). As a follower of the SuppVersity Facebook news , you will also remember that these effects could potentially be brought about by the hormonal chaos that's brought about by these sugar sweetened beverages ( learn more ; Schliep. 2013). Now, these results, as well as the accumulating evidence that sugar sweetened beverages in general and high fructose corn-syrup laden sodas are among the, if not simply the #1 contributer to the rise of the obesity pandemic, certainly raise the question what exactly it is that happens to us, when we consume these delicious* yet deadly elixirs on a daily bas...
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