Cutting out fructose while ingesting 100% nutrition may be the key!
Dr. Elizabeth Parks who is an associate professor of clinical nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center said the following regarding her study published in Science Daily:
"Our study shows for the first time the surprising speed with which humans make body fat from fructose … Once you start the process of fat synthesis from fructose, it's hard to slow it down … It's basically sneaking into the rock concert through the fence. It's a less-controlled movement of fructose through these pathways that causes it to contribute to greater triglyceride [i.e. fat] synthesis.”
Something that makes avoiding this more difficult for those who are looking to eat healthier is that fructose is in many diet foods and even many health foods!! Thanks to Dr. Mercola for this fabulous information. Below are some dangerous facts about Fructose:
-When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than one calorie is stored as fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat. Consuming fructose is essentially consuming fat!
-The metabolism of fructose by your liver creates a long list of waste products and toxins, including a large amount of uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and causes gout.
-Every cell in your body, including your brain, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is “burned up” immediately after you consume it. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (the damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which get stored as fat.
Now is the time to detoxify, cut out damaging foods (especially fructose) and become the new you!!
We'd love you to share your tips on cutting out fructose from your diet, and also foods that you have found it in! Email them to ebagley@mlis.com and they will appear in our comments section
Eliza
