Sugar like Cocaine

Watch this ground breaking expose about sugar & it's effect on the body & brain.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n&tag=contentMain;contentAux


What do you think hype or truth?

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  • Symonep
    Symonep Posts: 181 Member
    Read Sweet Poison by David Gillespie. It will explain it all :)
  • Sugar Blues is also a good book, passed it on so can't tell you who the author is !
  • RonSwanson66
    RonSwanson66 Posts: 1,150 Member
    Alarmist bull****.


    http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMc0_s-M08I



    Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2012 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]
    Fructose toxicity: is the science ready for public health actions?
    Tappy L, Mittendorfer B.
    Source

    aDepartment of Physiology, University of Lausanne bService of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland cCenter for Human Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
    Abstract
    PURPOSE OF REVIEW:

    The assumption that fructose may be toxic and involved in the pathogenesis of noncommunicable diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and even cancer has resulted in the call for public health action, such as introducing taxes on sweetened beverages. This review evaluates the scientific basis for such action.

    RECENT FINDINGS:

    Although some studies hint towards some potential adverse effects of excessive fructose consumption especially when combined with excess energy intake, the results from clinical trials do not support a significant detrimental effect of fructose on metabolic health when consumed as part of a weight-maintaining diet in amounts consistent with the average-estimated fructose consumption in Western countries. However, definitive studies are missing.


    SUMMARY

    Public health policies to eliminate or limit fructose in the diet should be considered premature. Instead, efforts should be made to promote a healthy lifestyle that includes physical activity and nutritious foods while avoiding intake of excess calories until solid evidence to support action against fructose is available. Public health is almost certainly to benefit more from policies that are aimed at promoting what is known to be good than from policies that are prohibiting what is not (yet) known to be bad.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :yawn: