Who’s Afraid of a Little Something Sweet?

It’s time to put a stop to the demonizing and scare tactics.

In fact, in the same paper, the author seeks to dispel other myths about fructose by pointing out the following facts:

• Fructose coexists with glucose in all common nutritive sweeteners including honey, fruits and vegetables, agave nectar, and regular table sugar (50 percent fructose, 50 percent glucose)

• The human body is well adapted to handling sugars in normal ranges

• Replacing all the fructose in manufactured foods with other nutritive sweeteners would not improve health or solve the obesity crisis

There is also a list of good reasons for why people should continue to have fructose in their diets.

• Fructose is sweeter than glucose, so a balance of both helps food manufacturers use less sugar overall in foods.

• Since fructose is absorbed differently than glucose, it blunts a glycemic response, leading to lower insulin levels.

• Fructose makes things with naturally unpleasant flavors (like vitamins and minerals) taste better.

• Unlike non-caloric, artificial sweeteners, fructose helps to fuel the body with energy.

The truth is that fructose is metabolized in the liver and is first used to replenish liver glycogen stores, which are in turn used to fuel the body during fasting. The average human liver has the capacity to store around 85 to 100 grams or more of liver glycogen.

When fructose is consumed in a normal range as our hunter-gatherer ancestors did when they ate fruits and vegetables all year round – and as part of a reduced-calorie diet for building muscle and losing weight – it and its cousin sweeteners such as sucrose, glucose, honey, agave nectar, fruit juice concentrates, and sugar alcohols really aren’t so freaky after all.

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