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To: Brian Griffin

Even with seasonal fruit, our ancestors would have gotten very little fructose until the advent of agriculture, and even then since fruit couldn’t be stored for long, only locally or in small expensive quantities in cities. The exception being conversion to alcohol, like wine. Our metabolism needs glucose, so the constant conversion of high amounts of fructose to glucose sets up a bunch of hormonal imbalances.


12 posted on 08/29/2025 11:03:21 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

Dried fruit is probably one of the first foods we learned to process to store long term.


14 posted on 08/29/2025 11:11:47 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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