Great interview on Mercola.com about fructose. It’s lengthy, but well worth the time it takes to listen.

Some of the highlights- first, most of us don’t understand the difference between fructose and glucose. Basically, fructose is metabolized through different pathways. One thing it does is cause changes to blood vessels in the kidneys, causing uric acid production to be increased.

This increased uric acid production is apparently what sets off a chain reaction which includes high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, syndrome X, the list is lengthy.

The researcher interviewed has written a book, The Sugar Fix, that can explain all this alot better than I can.

He suggests we could have a sugar tax, so that we could spend more $ researching this. Also, he says there should be a label on fructose products stating “excess amount can cause obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes…”

Fructose is what’s in high fructose corn syrup but it’s also 50% of our table sugar. It’s in fruit of course but when you eat a piece of fruit it has vitamins and minerals that balance the fructose out. Unfortunately, though, thanks to places like Montsanto the fruits we consume now are mostly mutants. So, watch the fruit consumption as well (his advice)

The more sugar/fructose you eat, the more sensitive you are to it. Also, the older you get, the more sensitive you become. He suggests going off sugar products  for at least 2 weeks to begin to get this under control. That means going off processed foods as, once you start reading labels, you’ll see just about everything has fructose in some form, from bread on down the line.

Bottom line, he says that the #1 food we need to look out for is fructose. But guess what #2 is…Beer!!!  Think about beer belly syndrome- Wine’s ok, though, it doesn’t activate the same pathways.

Just wanted to share the highlights, but hope you have time to listen to this amazing interview!

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