News In Brief: Fructose may be key to weight gain

www.sciencenews.org ^ | September 9, 2013 | By Nathan Seppa

[Red Badger]

Mice that could not make or metabolize the sugar gained less than normal mice.

Mice lacking the ability to metabolize fructose don’t gain nearly as much weight as normal mice do, researchers report September 10 in Nature Communications.

Fructose, which some people blame for the obesity epidemic and its related health crises (SN: 6/1/13, p. 22), shows up in high-fructose corn syrup and in table sugar, or sucrose. The body also makes home-grown fructose by modifying glucose in a process involving an enzyme called aldose reductase.

[Red Badger]

So did all the soft drink companies up until the 70’s or so. When I was a kid, finding discarded coke bottles was my main source of ‘income’ . Every Saturday I would ride around town and pick up all the coke bottles from ditches and sides of the road to turn in for deposit. At 2 cents apiece I could make a dollar just about every weekend, usually more. That would support my comic book habit, and later my tab at the pool hall................Yes, I had a tab at the local pool hall at 13!...............

[GeronL]

I played pool occasionally at the roller skating rink but I was never really into it.

[McGruff]

Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something! If it's not one thing, it's another! - Roseanne Roseannadanna

[Red Badger]

The local pool hall in my town charged 5 cents for a regular pool game (billiards, 8 ball, 9 ball, Cut Throat) and 10 cents for Snooker. I kept my tab to a dollar a week, and mostly played regular pool games. Snooker was more fun, but the cost limited my playing time..................

[Paradox]

Too much of anything can be bad for you, health-wise, but HFCS should be very limited intake........

Yes, but the fact is, Sucrose is not a whole lot better.

[Red Badger]

From following Link:

Although glucose can be metabolized by every cell in the body, fructose is metabolized almost entirely by the liver. There it can result in the generation of free radicals (damaged cells that can damage other cells) and uric acid (which can lead to kidney disease or gout), and it can kick off a process called de novo lipogenesis, which generates fats that can find their way into the bloodstream or be deposited on the liver itself. These byproducts are linked to obesity, insulin resistance and the group of risk factors linked to diabetes, heart disease and stroke. (Lustig gives a detailed explanation of fructose metabolism in a well-viewed YouTube video called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.”)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3065106/posts

[Paradox]

Sucrose is not glucose. It is glucose-fructose.

[Red Badger]

This is true. But it ain’t fructose-fructose............

[Paradox]

Neither is HFCS.

[Red Badger]

But it is High Fructose as compared to sucrose..........

[Orgiveme]

You need to learn something about a condition called “reactive hypoglycemia.” People develop it for a variety of reasons, but commercial use of HFCS combined with the SAD (high-fructose corn syrup/Standard American Diet) have greatly increased the incidence in the population. Hunger, however induced or enhanced, is a powerful thing; people have been known to eat their children with hunger as the strong driving force. People will benefit by studying human nutrition as well as history.

[Mr. Lucky]

Table sugar averages 50% fructose and 50% glucose. Corn is syrup between 42% to 55% fructose and 58% - 45% glucose.

[Paradox]

Not by a whole heck of a lot, it varies.

I am not a fan of HFCS, but the demonization of it has caused many to forget, or not realize, that plain old table sugar is nearly as bad.

[Red Badger]

Yes sugar is bad in too much quantity. We had fat kids in school in the 50’s and 60’s before HFCS were rampant. Now, just looking at the kids at the mall and around my neighborhood the kids all look fat. Of course we didn’t have computers, the internet, cell phones and video games to make us couch potatoes. We rode bicycles, skated, hiked thru the woods, baseball, football, basketball and swam in anything that held more than six inches of water..........................

[neverdem]

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