Posts

Showing posts with the label high fructose corn syrup

Popular topics

Show more

Fructose, a New Truth? Meta-Analyses Exonerate Fructose... as Part of Non-Hypercaloric Diets and in Normal Amounts

Written by | published on
Image
Editorial provides compelling evidence from meta-analyses, but their results are context-dependent ... "The story of fructose reflects the cyclic nature of much in nutrition." That's what John Sievenpiper writes in his latest editorial in  The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ; and he's right. If you review the history of the science on fructose you will see that it went full circle - not once, but repeatedly. As Sievenpiper points out, the latest meta-analyses by Evans et al. (2017a,b) found (a) beneficial effects on blood glucose especially in people with already messed up glucose management, when sucrose (=sugar) was replaced with fructose, and (b) lowered fasting blood glucose and HbA1c, and triglycerides, plus body weight. Learn more about fructose at the SuppVersity Bad Fructose not so Bad, After All! Learn its Benefits. Fructose From Fruit is NOT the Problem Americans Don't Eat More Fructose Today An Apple A Day, Keeps... &...
Read full article »

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

Written by | published on
Image
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 ...
Read full article »

It's True: Fructose Makes You Fat - In Fact, It Even Makes You Make Fat! Study Shows, HFCS Beverages Kickstart Endogenous Palmitic Acid Production, Sugary Ones Don't

Written by | published on
Image
In the fashion business, "light or not light" (light=diet as in "Diet Coke" US vs Coke Light Germany) is not really a question to ask. Actually I have given up writing about fructose. It appears as if everyone was so bamboozled by the obvious bullsh*t you can read all over the Internet that it's useless to tell them that you are not going to get obese from eating one, two or even ten apples a day! In view of the fact that today's SuppVersity article is about the negative effects of fructose, I am yet quite confident that more than the few enlightened SuppVersity regulars will read it. I mean, who would not want to know whether moderate amounts of various sugars (including fructose, sucrose, and glucose) in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) will have differential effects on fatty acid synthesis and degradation in healthy young men? Now that I'd probably even have Dr. Lustig attention, let's first take a look at what exactly Michel Hochuli an...
Read full article »

Bad Fructose? Increased Glycogen Synthesis, Reduced Glycemia, Higher Glucose Oxidation - When Do These Beneficial Effects Occur? And Why Don't They Prevail?

Written by | published on
Image
Are there good and bad fructose sources according to the amount, concentration, and availability of the super-sweet super-cheap sweetener? Believe it or not: Fructose was not send by the devil to expel us from the gluttonous paradise of all-you-can-eat buffets. Rather than that, fructose is an important nutrient found naturally in fruit and a component of most healthy diets of which the following paragraphs will highlight that it plays a very important role in normal sugar metabolism. In contrast to the majority of the recently published literature on fructose, of which Maren R. Laughlin from the NIH writes in a recent paper that it is "not relevant for the purpose of understanding the metabolism of low levels of fructose eaten as a minor fraction of the carbohydrate found in a well-balanced meal", the article at hand will not deal with the ill-consequences of isolated fructose consumption, as they would never occur if people consumed a whole foods diet. Learn more a...
Read full article »

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

Written by | published on
Image
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 ...
Read full article »
Disclaimer:The information provided on this website is for informational purposes only. It is by no means intended as professional medical advice. Do not use any of the agents or freely available dietary supplements mentioned on this website without further consultation with your medical practitioner.