betsywalton

Suit yourself. Good luck with your health.

1. The objective was to prospectively compare the effects of HFCS- vs sucrose-sweetened soft drinks on acute metabolic and hemodynamic effects. Compared with sucrose, HFCS leads to greater fructose systemic exposure and significantly different acute metabolic effects. Le, M., Frye, R., Rivard, C., Cheng, J., McFann, K.,…

Sugar lobbyists are promoting high fructose corn syrup? Wouldn't they be paid to promote....sugar?

smart woman

Ah, gotcha. Yes indeed it would travel very quickly

Well said. if it's dark chocolate, it may actually be good for you.

[quote}The only metabolic difference between HFCS and sucrose (except for the different glucose/fructose ratio of course) that I'm aware of is that glucose and fructose in HFCS is free compared to the bonded form in sucrose, hence you don't need sucrase. True, and the process by which sucrose catalyzes sucrose breakdown…

Yes and you get fatter faster eating same amount of poor quality food. Pastries are an example.

You would be hard pressed to consume that, but if you did it would digest much more slowly and you would gain less weight than if you ate those calories in donuts.

I don't get how just because one is absorbed faster, there is a difference. The same amount of insulin would be released no matter how quick the sugars were metabolized. Also, you have to realize eating your body weight in celery would not even come close to the calories in a pastry. You would probably not get fat because…

Because HFCS absorbs more rapidly. It is more bio available. If you think in extremes, many veggies are carbs/fibers (which are very complex carb chains). If you eat them all day long you likely won't gain weight. That is because they take a large amount of energy to digest (they burn calories to absorb) and they can't…

Insulin spikes when glucose is consumed. We expect that....your question is rather strange.

Acg posted graphs showing response of several substances including glucose, triglycerides, and insulin. It shows the response pre and post prandial to meals consumed throughout the day. I agree with you that neither substance is great, my stance, which is correct, is that they are not metabolized the same. Thus, one cannot…

??No protein is not dangerous. It is also not a carbohydrate. Proteins are nitrogen based compounds.

You simply demonstrated that the body eventually removes the sugar from the blood, but ignored the mechanism by which that occurs.

it's not the 24 hour profile we worry about, my friend, it's the spikes. You missed it. Nice try.

Carbohydrates are composed of four groups: monosachs, disachs, oligosachs, and polysachs. Monosachs are least complex and are the most readily absorbable forms of carbs (examples are glucose and fructose as stand-alone molecules). The more complex the carb, the more work your body must do to digest it—and the longer that…

? I don't know where you went to medical school, but that's what they taught us at Duke. I trust my credentials.

Best advice is talk to your provider. Cymbalta is an SNRI (same class as Effexor). Weight gain isn't normally a side effect, but could be caused by something else going on with your drug regimine or your metabolism. Wellbutrin, recommended here by a few respondants, is a different class of anti-depressant. It also helps…

Because sugar, by chemical structure, is a carbohydrate. It is pure carbohydrate C12H6O12 in structure. It is same as saying turkey is protein. It's chemical structure is nitrogen based, thus it is classified as protein.

One of the issues with high fructose corn syrup is that when metabolized, it causes spikes in blood sugar well beyond those of sucrose (table sugar). Sucrose is a different chemical compound which, though it causes spikes, does so in a less exaggerated manner. This physiological response in blood sugar levels to HFCS…