Posted on 09/10/2013 12:55:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
/ sigh.
saying sugar is a toxin is nearly as foolish as saying water is a toxin. or oxygen. or carbon dioxide. and so on.
junk science writ large.
Cancer cells love high fructose corn syrup
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently conducted a study revealing that cancer cells have a particular liking for refined fructose. In tests, pancreatic cancer cells quickly fed on refined fructose and used it to divide and proliferate rapidly within the body.
Published in the journal Cancer Research, the findings also reveal that not all sugars are the same, a widely held belief in mainstream medicine. Tumor cells love both glucose sugar and fructose sugar, but fructose directly causes cancer cells to reproduce and spread in a way that glucose does not.
“Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different,” wrote the team in the study paper.
So the study solidifies the fact that there is a major difference between high fructose corn syrup, a highly-refined sugar commonly used in processed American foods and beverages, and refined sugar cane. Both can lead to health problems, but high fructose corn syrup is worse in terms of cancer growth.
http://www.naturalnews.com/029374_cancer_high_fructose_corn_syrup.html
Take pop, candy, pastries and chips off the foodstamp list and there will be fewer fat people in this country.
all high metabolic cells ‘high sugar’.
why does cancer spread so fast?
they are metabolic runaway trains.
get real.
The process of making both sugars on a large scale is very similar. I worked with both.
Sugar is not a toxin. It is a fuel source. Now in the US it is in EVERYTHING to the point where I won't buy red sauce anymore, so the calorie count is higher than my home made stuff.
There is some discussion over if it is addicting or not, but since there are people who are addicted to stamp collecting (the areas in the brain that drive addiction are activated), it is probable.
We are in a point in history where the world is so wealthy that a major problem for poor people is getting fat. That has NEVER been the case in human history, till now.
Do I think we put sugar in to many things? Yes. It is in everything.
Is gay sex unhealthy?
Is promiscuous teen sex setting the stage for unwanted teen pregnancies and STDs?
But let’s focus our attention on sugar as the evil in society while all else goes to hell.
left out the word love. all high metabolic cells love any ‘food’ sugar.
Just as the left is trying to confuse the open-borders argument by crowding out the words “illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant” with the simple word “immigrant”, the corn lobby is trying to confuse the high-fructose-corn-syrup argument with the words “sugar”, “sugar-sweetened beverage” (which actually includes HFCS) and “fructose”. This is fundamentally not serious.
I remember reading, some years ago, that the reason sugar is "in everything", is because we went thru that anti-fat craze. Where any kind of fat was evil, to the point that pediatricians had to come out with a statement telling parents that very young children should not be fed non-fat milk because their brain development needs the fat.
Well, fat makes things tasty. So, to keep the taste of the foods they were producing, they added the sugar to try to make up for the loss of the flavor that the "fat" provided. So, yes, sugar is now in everything.
The Snackwells scenario! Take out the fat, add in more sugar. As it turns out, fat is actually good for us. Even some saturated fats such as coconut oil. It keeps me fuller longer, so I’m less inclined to grab a sugary snack.
It is not an epidemic! Nobody is dying because they’re fat. And if they are it isn’t something somebody else should do anything about. Liberals make something a war or an epidemic to generate support for controlling what we do or for getting money. For goodness sake stop seeing fat as a disease. AIDS, Cholera, Measles are epidemics. Fat is just ugly. Ugly isn’t a disease that needs controlling.
Oh, gosh...I’m so exhausted from the effort of writing this note, I’ve just got to get some chocolate...
Overuse of almost anything can cause one problem or another.
Interesting, ...I have severe insulin resistance, and gout attacks at least once a month, presently in both feet, and my fructose intake has been next to zero for decades now. The last time I ate something with fructose in it was about four months ago, a doughnut and small glass of milk to offset low blood sugar. I was too weak to get out of my chair. If the damage is offset by ceasing to eat fructose, or fructose products, I wish it would start getting offset in me. About fourteen years ago I had a colon resection, and the doctor went over every inch of my liver. He said it looked perfect and healthy.
I don’t doubt the validity of this research. We all know fructose is the real villain in type 2 diabetes, but it would seem some livers have the ability to produce copious amounts of fructose without any help. Not even large doses of Metformin turns mine off. ...A strict Akins diet, with limited calories works to lower my blood sugar, but my uric acid levels go through the roof.
Do I think we put sugar in to many things? Yes. It is in everything.
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Here’s a great site to help people see how much sugar is in common products that we all consume. It’s an eye opener.
There seems to be a difference between high fructose corn syrup and pure cane sugar. At least for me. Stopped drinking things with the corn syrup and went sugar only. Made it much easier to lose weight. Started drinking it again and put on 10 lbs.
Probably just me, but seems like there is a difference
Thanks for the link. Great visuals.
Don't I know it. I've been on a low carb diet for the past 4-5 months (down 35 lbs now!), and have become quite used to reading food labels at the grocery store as a result. It's amazing the foods where sugar is added, often gratuitously it seems.
In fact, it's hard to find foods without added sugar, vs. natural sugars. You pretty much need to stay away from the "center aisles" in most grocery stores, and just go around the perimeter where vegetables, fruits, meats, eggs & dairy products are sold.
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