[Future Useless Eater]

you gonna eat that???


That boy's liver has been poisoned by the stuff sitting right in front of him. Sugar.

That looks like a medium drink. They used to be 24 ounces but McD recently changed the medium to a 21 oz cup. They also put in ice, so they only count the 'new medium' drink as having 58 grams of sugar.

OK, so using McD's new cup data... That drink contains either
29 grams of FRUCTOSE (if it was sweetened with sugar), or
32 grams of FRUCTOSE (if it was sweetened with HFCS).
Either way, they're both almostt equally bad.

Fructose in large quantities poisons the liver much like alcohol does. It brings on non-alcoholic-fatty-liver disease, that equates to the metabolic syndrome, that causes diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and more.



Full grown adults can only detoxify about 35 grams of Fructose in one day. Any more than that, and the liver starts plugging up with tiny spheres of fructose-induced fat that the liver cannot get rid of. A small boy has a much smaller liver and can only detox about a third of that (lets say 10 grams of fructose PER DAY).

But this kid is putting about 30 grams of fructose into his liver just from that one sweetened soda alone. He probably drinks 2 to 3 times that amount of sugar-sweetened drinks every day. And he gets more sugar within that meal, and throughout the day in almost every other food he eats.

People should stop demonizing 'just' High Fructose Corn Syrup, because that's not the real problem; Switching back to equivalent amounts of "real sugar" is almost equally bad.

Most baby-boomers can attest to the fact that around age 40 our metabolisms slowed down and we started gaining weight uncontrollably. That was because it used to take about that long for our livers to plug up.

It now happens MUCH faster because there is so much more sugar in all foods than there used to be (before dietary fat was demonized). A SnackWell's snack is an example. When dietary fat was declared 'bad', SnackWells took out most of the fat, but had to replace that with sugar or their product tasted like cardboard.

Another nasty thing fructose does is it signals your body to GROW MORE fat cells. Its called nuvo-lipo-genesis. Humans used to only get small amounts of fructose throughout the year, except for autumn harvest, when the fructose (mostly in fruit) helped our bodies fatten up for winter. That used to be a good thing and helped us survive winters. Fruits now contain MUCH more sugar (thanks to food engineering), plus we refine it into sugar and eat it all year long in huge amounts.

[novemberslady]

Not sure why you’ve pinged me with that crap. Maybe you should’ve started your own thread. Please don’t do it again.

[American in Israel]

A second parallel issue with the predominance of sugar in the modern diet is the loss of nutrition in chemically raised foods. One pound of Organic tomatoes contains the same nutrients as 20 pounds of Supermarket tomatoes. People are cramming so many calories in their face in a vain search for nutrition.

Empty calories topped with sugar is the modern diet, and obesity is the result.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

At least there is a little good news, which came about because of an unexpected event during a clinical trial.

A new drug required blood liver chemicals to be monitored in the human test subjects. Needing a placebo, the researchers decided to use Vitamin E. Unexpectedly, of their *control* group that had fatty liver, without changing their diet, the Vitamin E normalized their livers.

Which ruined the experiment, but opened a new door to research. Subsequently it was found that Vitamin E can reverse fatty liver.

However, Vitamin E can produce its own problems. But this was already known, and it was also known that also taking a selenium supplement *with* the Vitamin E neutralized its deleterious effects.

[Joya]

Your post 58, excellent info. I have warned my loved ones of the dangers of too much fructose.

I visit

www.mercola.com

often and Dr. Mercola speaks on the dangers of fructose, even when its source if fresh fruit.

Appreciate the excellent post.

[Chickensoup]

My morbidly obese child with genetic issues was raised on a vegan diet with no added sugars from birth.

No junk food, no mickyd’s. The nutrition specialists at the Children’s hosptial did not know what to do with her.

We moved to a more meat based diet, still organic and managed to keep her weight in check. The genetic testing showed that she had certain markers for obesity beyond willpower and diet issues.