ABC Radio National’s The Health Report with Dr Norman Swan is an excellent resource. Yesterday, he had a superb interview with a paediatric endocrinologist Dr Robert Lustig from UCSF’s Center for Obesity.
Lustig argues that fructose in food (which is biochemically a carbohydrate) but acts biologically like a fat and a hepato-toxin worsening childhood obesity. Food companies like it because it they can market food that is high in fructose as “low sugar” and “low fat” when biologically it is high in both and stimulates appetite. High fructose (and sucrose) foods increase appetite and overall food consumption.
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Jazakallahu khayran – thanks for posting this guys. I had absolutely NO clue about how much sugar aka fructose aka gloopy corn syrup goes into our food. I’ve been looking the labels of the food I buy over the last couple of days (and I used to think I was a careful shopper) and I am stunned.
A great interview. I got a bit confused on the issue of fiber and how it relates to insulin production. There is a quick explination here (by Lustig):
http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cach.....01916.html
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