http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130813/ncomms3245/full/ncomms3245.html
Here is a link to a New York Times article titled "Is Sugar Toxic?" It gives a good basic overview of the problem.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=all
The NY Times article referred to a video of a talk by Dr. Robert Lustig titled "Sugar: the Bitter Truth." It is lengthy, but well worth the time to watch. It does get pretty technical but I glossed over the biochemistry parts of the lecture and listened for the summaries. Some of my take-aways include that calories in do not necessarily equal calories out. A calorie is not a calorie. Quality matters! There are good carbs and bad carbs, good fats and bad fats.
Fiber is good for you, the more the better. Eat your carbs with the fiber which naturally occurs with them.
I learned that fructose does not stimulate insulin production. Only the liver can metabolize fructose. Sugar intake causes an increase in uric acid production, which leads to hypertension....so why do we have a hypertension epidemic? It's the sugar in our diets.
High fructose corn syrup is in sports drinks. That is great for athletes, as fructose goes straight to the liver for metabolism where it replaces stored glycogen. But athletes are not the only ones drinking sports drinks. Kids drink them.
There is an epidemic of obese 6 month olds. Lustic thinks this could be because baby formula is 10.3% sugar. For comparison, sodas are 10.5% sugar. Americans are feeding their infants baby milk-shakes.
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My agronomist brother Daniel alerted me to new study results from Wake Forest University showing that dietary fructose causes liver damage in the animal model.
http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2013/Dietary_Fructose_Causes_Liver_Damage_in_Animal_Model_Study_Finds.htm
If you are at all interested in what you are eating and what these foods are doing to you, you might take a look at these articles.
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