The common medical nutritional wisdom that all sugars are the same is apparently not true when it comes to cancer.
Short of actually shooting you, is there any way fructose doesn’t contribute to your demise?
In the words of Cartman… sweet.
Now that HFCS has been linked to cancer as well as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, strokes, excessive flatulence and spontaneous decapitation, is it likely that the multi-billion-dollar processed food industry will take notice and switch to more healthy, yet expensive, food additives?
No, of course not. It’s the children who are wrong.
Fructose sucks, pure and simple. Even thirty years ago, Linus Pauling recommended that humans restrict their fructose intake to no more that eight grams a day. This latest research just further vilifies a substance that has already been demonstrated to vastly accelerate the pathogenesis of diabetes, degenerative atherosclerosis, and the aging process in general.
Long-Term Fructose Consumption Accelerates Glycation and Several Age-Related Variables in Male Rats
Forgive my ignorance, but do sources of fructose include fruit, honey, etc? Or are we talking processed sugar?
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Yeah, I eat a lot of raw fruit. Is this a problem for me?
Roddy
Wiki on fructose
It doesn’t say anything abut fructose *predisposing *you to cancer, only if you get it cancer uses it (but not glucose) to proliferate. The issue is that you will never know you have it until way too late.
Very possibly. I’ve read that autopsies done on fruitarians (a peculiar brand of veganism whose adherents eat raw fruit almost exclusively) have demonstrated a considerable amount of liver damage in these individuals. All ingested fructose is converted to glucose before it is utilized, and this conversion takes place entirely in the liver.
Thank you.
What root vegetables are they referring to?
Ouch - given that diabetics were urged to use fructose, and people who wanted to avoid regular table sugar!
I tend to use my morning tablespoon of raisins as my only fruit other than I do use lime and lemon juices as souring agents a lot [I think I manage to use about 2 teaspoons of citrus a day to spike my water or brighten a recipe up.] I don’t think I will go out of my way to avoid real fruit but I have already cut HFCS out of my diet and can avoid any other use of fructose. [HFCS is a migraine trigger for me]
I’m not a fruitarian. But I do use quite a lot of honey, in my lemon tea mostly. Would I be better off using table sugar instead?
It really wouldn’t make any difference. Sucrose and honey both provide about the same amount of fructose on a per weight basis. If you’re concerned about your fructose intake, a more viable solution would be to use glucose (dextrose) as a sweetener. Unfortunately, you can’t find it in a supermarket (except in the form of corn syrup) and it’s hard to find even in health food stores. You’ll most likely have to buy it online or from a brewing supply house. I buy it in 50-pound bags from from an online supplier and store it in a sealed plastic bucket.
Uhm, the twinky defense… Apparently it can shoot you.
But the article fails to say if the cancer cells were fed in a petrie dish or did they mean fed via human intake? The two don’t always produce the same results.
Sometimes they do, but not always. So I think you really have to look at the data carefully before you can say. It may be true, but you can’t tell from that article.
No, keep reading. It says near the end of the article that it was an in vitro culture.
It’s pivotal for normal cells as well.