Posted on 04/19/2011 3:11:57 PM PDT by newzjunkey
...When I set out to interview public health authorities and researchers for this article, they would often initiate the interview with some variation of the comment surely youve spoken to Robert Lustig, not because Lustig has done any of the key research on sugar himself, which he hasnt, but because hes willing to insist publicly and unambiguously, when most researchers are not, that sugar is a toxic substance that people abuse...
...What we have to keep in mind, says Walter Glinsmann, the F.D.A. administrator who was the primary author on the 1986 report and who now is an adviser to the Corn Refiners Association, is that sugar and high-fructose corn syrup might be toxic, as Lustig argues, but so might any substance if its consumed in ways or in quantities that are unnatural for humans...
...It very well may be true that sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, because of the unique way in which we metabolize fructose and at the levels we now consume it, cause fat to accumulate in our livers followed by insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, and so trigger the process that leads to heart disease, diabetes and obesity...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The whole article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?_r=1&sq=robert lustig&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print
It's the amount of fructose going into the liver becoming triglycerides either making a fatty liver or contributing to obesity overall. Excess glucose can replace the glycogen, a carbohydrate that's the storage form of glucose, but it has a limited maximum amount, which is stored in the liver and muscles that's depleted with intense physical activity. Only when it gets too low that you switch into using free fatty acids do you start to deplete your fat stores, IIRC. It's a neet strategy for famines, but we haven't had too many lately.
It's not from a precautionary principle that makes me concernced. There's a good correlation between obesity, NAFLD, the epidemic of Type II Diabetes, formerly known as Adult Onset Diabetes, as well as MODY, Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young with the consumption of HFCS over the last few decades.
Parents can't use physical discipline with children any more, so the carrot and stick philosophy has been reduced to just carrots.
So I'm leary about HFCS-55. They use HFCS-42, 42 % fructose, in baked and processed stuff that you eat. I doubt an occasional treat will kill you.
The Truth About High Fructose Corn Syrup - The Science Behind the Sweetener
I thought that was a very interesting article. You might want to check comment# 1 on that thread. You may find an interesting link.
Any corrections are always appreciated.
Thanks again for the reply. I will check out the article.
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