sugar

I thought milk sugars are different than other types, like refined sugars like table sugar, HFCS, etc.

I was amazed at how many non sweetened cereals contain HFCS. If your non-sweetened cereal has 10g in a serving, that is pretty high.

I agree about trying oatmeal.

Fructose Metabolism By The Brain Increases Food Intake And Obesity, Review Suggests
ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2009) —

M. Daniel Lane and colleagues at Johns Hopkins have built on the suggested link between the consumption of fructose and increased food intake, which may contribute to a high incidence of obesity, and Type 2 diabetes.

Over the past four decades life-styles have gravitated toward the excessive consumption of 'high energy' foods and sedentary behavior that has resulted in a high incidence of obesity and its pathological consequences. This scenario has led to the increased occurrence of insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. At present, approximately thirty percent of adult Americans can be classified as obese. Moreover, these changes now extend into the younger age group.

M. Daniel Lane and co-workers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore have now pulled together work, largely in their laboratory (many papers beginning in 2000), dealing with the role of malonyl-CoA in the signaling system in the brain (specifically the hypothalamus) that has inputs into the higher brain centers that determine feeding behavior, most notably appetite. Two papers in the journal PNAS in 2007 and 2008 showed that glucose and fructose act quite differently in the brain (hypothalamus) - glucose decreasing food intake and fructose increasing food intake. Both of these sugars signal in the brain through the malonyl-CoA signaling pathway and have inverse effects on food intake.

Lane commented: "We feel that these findings may have particular relevance to the massive increase in the use of high fructose sweeteners (both high fructose corn syrup and table sugar) in virtually all sweetened foods, most notably soft drinks. The per capita consumption of these sweeteners in the USA is about 145 lbs/year and is probably much higher in teenagers/youth that have a high level of consumption of soft drinks. There is a large literature now that correlates, but does not prove that a culprit in the rise of teenage obesity may be fructose."

The fact that fructose metabolism by the brain increases food intake and obesity risk raises health concerns in view of the large and increasing per capita consumption of high fructose sweeteners, especially by youth.

I am always over on my sugar according to MFP.

However I do not eat anything with high fructose corn syrup or refined sugar. I get it all from fruit and veggies. I also try to eat medium or low Glycemic index foods.

Perhaps there will come a day when I worry about these natural sugars, but not yet. I'm still losing weight and feeling good. And since I'm always under in Carbs, I'm okay with it for now.

I am always over on my sugar according to MFP.

However I do not eat anything with high fructose corn syrup or refined sugar. I get it all from fruit and veggies. I also try to eat medium or low Glycemic index foods.

Perhaps there will come a day when I worry about these natural sugars, but not yet. I'm still losing weight and feeling good. And since I'm always under in Carbs, I'm okay with it for now.

There will not be a day when you need to worry about natural sugars! You are doing fabulously, and if you can cut out refined sugar, you are already ten steps ahead of most!

How do you stay under on sugar? two percent milk has 6 sugars which is 1/4 of my total. My morning cereal has 10 sugars and that is not sweetened.
Guess I am more interested in fat and protein.