Re: fructose = toxic & addictive foods = chronicly high insulin levels = obesity
- From: "TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 16 Aug 2006 07:02:21 -0700
outsor@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"Some good reading on high fructose corn syrup:"
I was reading articles about corn syrup a year or more ago and its
effect on hungar feedback activity. That is not the point, your naive
commentary on an article you did not read is. I did not speak in favor
of using corn syrup, all my responses were taken up with correcting your
vacuous lifestyle food cult agenda driven spin and propaganda. You
confuse having a good response with being able to make a response, any
response, regardless of its validity, such is the level of your grasp of
the science involved. Unless you have read the article, you still don't
know about the hunger feedback loops involved but still you prsist in
massaging the keyboard as though it alone could substitute for the
facts.
I'll dumb it down a bit for you so you can understand what was said.
Here is a quote from the article that you would have seen had you
actually read and understood the article:
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"Prof Lustig said that the way in which food was now processed, which
had changed significantly in the last 30 years, had created an
environment in which foods were essentially addictive due to their
effect on the hormone insulin.
"In particular, fructose [sugar] - too much - and fibre - not enough -
appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects
on insulin," he said.
Prof Lustig said it was known that insulin acted on the brain to
encourage eating in two ways.
Insulin blocks the signals that travel from the body's fat stores to
the brain by suppressing the effectiveness of another hormone, leptin -
leading to increased eating and decreased activity.
The hormone also promotes the signal that seeks the reward of eating,
carried by the chemical dopamine which makes people want to eat to get
the pleasurable dopamine "rush".
When leptin is suppressed by the effects of insulin caused by
high-sugar, low-fibre diets, it decreases levels of activity and
increases appetite - known as leptin resistance.
Prof Lustig said that sugar was now added to foods that never used to
contained sugar, and meanwhile fibre was removed. Both were factors
which promoted insulin production and made foods addictive, he said."
***
He was speaking of sugars added to foods and specifically of HFCS and
its effects on humans. ie. obesity. My comment was:
"Hmmmm..... And I've been told repeatedly about how it is all about
fats
and calories...... "
Which means that for the last 100 to 150 years, and continuing right to
this day, we've been brainwashed to believe that weight gain was
related singularly and directly to excess consumption of fats and fat
calories. And to this day, doctors, nutritionists and weight loss
"experts" will invariably tell you to cut fats without any regard
whatsoever to the gallons of soda and kilos of HFCS in foods that is
consumed every day.
The simple upshot is that sugars and especially HFCS are much more a
factor in todays obesity epidemics than are fats in general. This is
undeniable.
Our consumption of fats has actually diminished by about 10% since 1970
and our consumption of carbs has increased by about 12% in the same
timeframe.
Look, if you are too dense and uneducated to figure out and understand
what is being said, then sit there quietly and politely ask questions
or go do some research on your own. Eventually you will be up to speed.
At that point you can join the discussion like a reasonable adult.
Until then, shut the f up.
TC
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