This is my understanding. Cane sugar is a complex sugar, containing
fructose and glucose. When the body gets the sweet taste, it
immediately starts producing insulin to "store" the excess sugar. The
glucose portion goes directly into the blood, and replaces the drop in
blood sugar that would normally accompany an insulin surge maintaining a
normal blood sugar level. The fructose portion is then stored, either
in muscle, or as fat for later use. Once the glucose is used up,
insulin levels drop and the stored fructose is converted to fructose and
burned. If only moderate amounts of sugar are consumed, then virtually
no sugar is converted to fat.
Now with pure or near pure fructose, the body once again produces
insulin, dropping the blood sugar (glucose) level. But no glucose comes
in, only fructose comes in. The fructose is stored in muscle tissue,
but is stuck there because of the high insulin levels. Blood sugar
drops, making you hungry, so you eat and or drink more to try to get the
glucose level back up. If it is sweet fructose then that only adds to
the problem. Once the level of fructose reaches a saturation level in
the tissues, it starts being stored as fat, which is much more difficult
to access and burn than sugar stored in the muscle.
Thus HFCS converts much more into fat than a mixture of glucose and
fructose, such as honey, or cane sugar.
Marshall
On 9/26/2012 3:30 PM, sol wrote:
We all are free to believe what we like, but I've read too much on the
other side of the argument re corn syrup, sugar, etc.
I'm not buying into the demonization of sugars. I have read (and it
"sounds" likely buy may not be true), that the reason for concern with
HFCS is that it contains a lot of starch, that isn't measured as
"sugar" or "calories", so the idea is it has more calories than are
accounted for by the "sugar" portion. Other than that, I just don't
buy the hysteria. However I do believe that polyunsaturated fats,
including fish oils etc are the demon in those diseases.
sol
Dorothy Fitzpatrick wrote:
There is huge evidence mounting on a daily basis; that fructose corn
syrup
which is in EVERY type of processed food, including burghers, bread,
'healthy' fruit drinks, in fact - everything - is responsible for
obesity
and all types of disease including cancer. Cancer LOVES corn syrup
as does
candida. They are also discovering that low fat food makes you FAT
because
it contains corn syrup. dee
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