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Is Fructose The Cause Of Obesity?
Is Fructose The Cause Of Obesity?
The Glycemic Index offers an interesting, and scientifically valid, way of assessing the types of carbohydrates we eat. It measures and rates the way these carbohydrates enter the bloodstream. And in doing so offers a way of approaching a meal so that it may be both nutritionally valid, and keep hunger pangs at bay. This of course is one way of preventing overeating. And its a great way for parents to try and curb their children’s desire to eat unhealthy food between meals.
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The Glycemic Index rates carbohydrates as having either a high, low or medium glycemic index. And the idea is to eat more foods that have either a low or medium glycemic index, and less with a high one. Low glycemic index foods enter the bloodstream more slowly, and so don’t raise blood sugar levels like high glycemic index foods.
So, what is a carbohydrate? All sugars, or foods that are broken down into sugar, are carbohydrates. This includes regular sugar, glucose (often used in sports drinks), fructose, (in fruit), lactose, (found in milk and similar products like yoghurt), maltose, (found in malt which is often used to flavor cereals), all types of starches, from potatoes to noodles and pasta, and legumes, such as lentils and peas (though these also contain some protein).
Fruit is considered to have a low GI (not fruit juice though). Interestingly though, recent research has found what they believe is a link between fructose and obesity. However, the type of fructose studied was in corn syrup, which is a refined and concentrated form of fructose. It also doesn’t have the beneficial fiber, antioxidants and other phytochemicals that fruit does. This was also preliminary research done in an animal model, so it may not be valid for humans. Researchers from the University of Florida found that fructose may make people believe they are hungrier than they should be. And when these researchers interrupted the way fructose was metabolized, the rats they were working with did not put on weight, even though they still ate fructose.
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Help! High Fructose Corn Syrup Ate My Bones!
Bette DowdellSo let me tell you how it is: This world came with rules.Well, we don’t like rules so much, so sometimes we decide we know better.Like, for instance, the makers of high fructose corn syrup. They’re big rule breakers. They say that isn’t so, but trust me, they break the rules.But we pay the price.Well, I could write about many things to prove my point, but let me talk about minerals.Our bodies need minerals. Big time. Because our food no longer provides much nutrition, most of us are mighty low in minerals.Minerals act as catalysts, making things happen, things that need to happen for function and good health. Not enough minerals means not so many things happening, which means reduced function and less than good health.Except for all my foot-stamping, probably nobody ever told you about this. When’s the last time you had a conversation about, say, magnesium–probably the most important mineral of all, the initiator of more than 300 body functions? See what I mean? Big problem; no talk.And here’s where nature’s rules come in. Nature insists on balance. Your body will balance your minerals even if it leaves you in a ditch. For instance, if your calcium and magnesium get out of balance, you body will eliminate whatever it must to get them balanced. So, if your magnesium is scraping bottom, your body will eliminate calcium until it’s scraping bottom, too. You’re in the ditch, but they’re balanced.Since most of us are low in most minerals and our bodies attempt to keep things going by constantly balancing what minerals we have, is it any wonder that fatigue and disease rates keep zooming higher?So we’re in a world of hurt, and the villain hasn’t entered the scene yet.Enter high fructose corn syrup, processed to a fare-the-well, a concoction never seen in nature. Part of the processing strips minerals. So, HFCS is hugely unbalanced, in nature’s view of things.When the I-got-no-minerals HFCS gets into our bodies, then, it shouts ‘Hallelujah!’ and scarfs down our minerals to balance itself. Our bodies then balance down what’s left. We think we’re just enjoying a soda, but World War III is going on inside us. And we’re losing.The result? Our bones go south, our skin withers and aging gets ferocious–even early on. Our brains take a licking. Triglycerides go up. Insulin resistance increases. Not to mention that all sorts of diseases see us as easy pickings. HFCS is bad, bad stuff.We need to do two things to win the battle: We need to have a good vitamin/mineral program so our bodies have what they need, and we need to quit eating and drinking stuff that contains high fructose corn syrup so it can’t do a number on us.You can read about the vitamin/mineral part in the author’s box below. That’s kind of the easy part.The second, avoiding HFCS, takes a lot of label-reading because HFCS is everywhere, in everything. All I can say is you get on to it. Reading labels may never be your favorite thing to do, but you gotta do what you gotta do to get the results you want to get.Unless you like that lower-than-a-snake’s-belly feeling.
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