Huh? What does this mean? What shouldn't we be deceived about? If the body doesn't recognize a sugar substitute as a carbohydrate, how will it be digested "far down the digestive tract?"
High fructose sugars are regarded as worse in this regard than ordinary sucrose, because they are more readily converted into fat.
Regarded worse by whom, nutritional illiterates? This statement also makes no sense. What else in your post should we be suspect of?
Do not be deceived by sugar substitutes, especially sugar alcohols, that do not affect the blood sugar levels because they are digested far down the digestive tract.
(Huh? What does this mean? What shouldn’t we be deceived about? If the body doesn’t recognize a sugar substitute as a carbohydrate, how will it be digested “far down the digestive tract?”)
They are carbohydrates, and they are digested, but they are digested far more gradually than sucrose. Labeling rules for sugar substitutes were written with diabetics in mind, so since these carbohydrates did not cause the dramatic fluctuations in blood sugar that sucrose did, they were disregarded as important labeling information. However, on those restricting carbohydrate intake, they do matter.
High fructose sugars are regarded as worse in this regard than ordinary sucrose, because they are more readily converted into fat.
Regarded worse by whom, nutritional illiterates? This statement also makes no sense. What else in your post should we be suspect of?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose
“Fructose exists in foods as either a monosaccharide (free fructose) or as a unit of a disaccharide (sucrose). Free fructose is absorbed directly by the intestine; however, when fructose is consumed in the form of sucrose, digestion occurs entirely in the upper small intestine.”
“Fructose passes through the small intestine virtually unchanged, then enters the portal vein and is directed toward the liver.”
“Uptake of fructose by the liver is not regulated by insulin.”
“The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar,” says Meira Field, Ph.D., a research chemist at United States Department of Agriculture, “but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic.”
“When fructose reaches the liver,” says Dr. William J. Whelan, a biochemist at the University of Miami School of Medicine, “the liver goes bananas and stops everything else to metabolize the fructose.” Eating fructose instead of glucose results in lower circulating insulin and leptin levels, and higher of ghrelin levels after the meal. Since leptin and insulin decrease appetite and ghrelin increases appetite, some researchers suspect that eating large amounts of fructose increases the likelihood of weight gain.”
“Excessive fructose consumption is also believed to contribute to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.”
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