It makes them feel important and relevant. We can split hairs to talk about how fructose has a different metabolic impact and fate to glucose, or save wasted time and effort and confusion, and simply tell people to eat less damn processed sugar and worry about other things.
In the grand scheme of things, sugar is sugar is sugar.
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The reality is that table sugar is 50/50 glucose and fructose. This is around the same ratio as "high fructose" corn syrup. As I stated earlier in the thread, natural corn syrup is lower in fructose than table sugar is, and they turn it into HFCS precisely to make it a closer analogue to the product the food industry tends to replace it with.
The two are different in that the glucose and fructose molecules are linked in sucrose, whereas HFCS is merely a mixture of both forms of sugar, but either way your stomach acids take care of that and the molecules end up being perceived by the metabolic system in an identical fashion.
Avoid both. If you find metabolism and nutrition interesting, feel free to read up on the peculiarity of fructose metabolism, because it is quite different, but either way both sucrose and HFCS have the same adverse impact.
I used to be a sugar addict. Now I'm a stevia addict, 0 calories and end of problem.
I tend to agree with this. I've experimented with trying different types of sugars and sugar alternatives. My own personal experience is that sweeteners lead to craving sweet things which leads to going back to regular sugar when tempted. Better to stay away from sweets entirely.
My wife and I have cut sugars, HFCS, etc almost completely out of our diets (as in less than 10g/day for all) and we feel better, sleep better, have better blood labs and are in our target weight bands.
It does seem odd the Dr. would say something unless they saw a flag in labs or physical.
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Table sugar, HFCS, Honey, Maple Syrup are all chemically just about the same. Fine in moderation, but very bad for your body if consumed excessively in the long term. Unfortunately sugar is in just about every type of packaged food and most people regularly eat way too much of it. Check out Dr. Lustig's presentations on Youtube where he gets into the science of how excess fructose gets turned into fat in the liver and over time can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Interesting stuff. Also check out "That sugar film" Where the Australian guy dramatically upped the sugar in his diet but still ate the same amount of calories as he was eating before, he ended up gaining a lot of fat.
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