Fructose: Benefit Or Harm To Health

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1 What is Fructose?2 What Makes Fructose Harmful?3 What to use instead of Fructose?

Is Fructose Good or Bad…

How good or bad Fructose is. What it is, where it is found. The effect of Fructose on our body. What it can be replaced with.

Raise your hand if any of us loves sweets! I think the vast majority will, if not all!

But our distant ancestors did not even come close to consuming the amount of sweets that we consume now. Apart from fruits and natural sources of sugar, like honey or maple syrup, and even then in minimal quantities, they had nothing to indulge themselves with.

For modern people, dessert has become a full-fledged part of nutrition; often it is precisely with something sweet that we finish our meal.

Relatively recently, we also started drinking sugar. All kinds of sodas, fruit juices, and energy drinks supply us with a huge amount of sugar and empty calories.

But in this post we will not be talking about calories, but about something more serious — Fructose, which, as I have noticed, many followers of a healthy lifestyle advise replacing simple white sugar with.

They claim that Fructose is also present in fruits, and fruits are very good for us! But they probably forget that in fruits, Fructose is present bound with other nutrients and fiber.

But let us figure out together whether Fructose is good for us or not.

What is Fructose?

This is a simple sugar that naturally occurs in fruits, honey, maple syrup, and other foods.

Many times I come across statements from people that sugar is sugar everywhere, even in Africa, and that there is absolutely no difference between them. It turns out there is a difference, and quite a significant one at that.

For example, simple white sugar, or Sucrose, consists of roughly equal parts of the sugars Glucose and Fructose.

Glucose is used by every cell in our body for energy; it is vitally necessary for our functioning, and our body is capable of synthesizing it on its own.

But with Fructose, things are much more serious: in order for us to be able to assimilate it, it must first reach the liver; our body is unable to synthesize it on its own, and finally, we are quite capable of living normally without it.

The greatest danger of Fructose lies precisely in HOW it is digested and assimilated by our body, and this is not such a simple and easy process as, for example, with Glucose.

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What Makes Fructose Harmful?

Fructose does not go directly into our cells like Glucose; it must first undergo a process of metabolization in the liver. Excessive consumption of this sugar leads to overload and intoxication of the liver, and Fructose begins to be stored as fat in our fat cells. That is why many people who try to lose weight and limit themselves in fats (even healthy ones) should first of all limit themselves in this simple sugar.
Over time, Fructose damages liver cells, which can lead to fatty liver, insulin resistance, or resistance to insulin,type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is a serious physiological condition in which our body synthesizes insulin but cannot use it effectively. Also, some scientists claim that Fructose has the same effect on the liver as alcohol, that is, a destructive one.
It provokes the liver to synthesize fat, which ultimately gets deposited around the organs, and this has already been proven to be one of the risks for developing cardiovascular diseases.
It provokes leptin resistance. Leptin is a hormone that controls appetite and metabolism. Fructose interferes with the proper function of this hormone, as a result of which our metabolism slows down, we do not feel full, and we eat much more. And we gain extra pounds that are then very hard to lose.
It enters into a chemical bond with proteins and polyunsaturated fats (vegetable oils), resulting in the formation of special particles that provoke oxidative oxidation and chronic inflammation — and from there they already give rise to many chronic diseases.
Fructose turns into free fatty acids, or the so-called harmful form of Cholesterol.
It completely shifts the balance of the intestinal microflora, increasing the growth and multiplication of pathogenic bacteria. And as we already know, many diseases of modern humans begin precisely with the intestines.
It increases the synthesis of Uric acid, which plays one of the main roles in the development of high blood pressure, kidney stones and gout.
It has a negative effect on nerve cells, triggering the process of inflammation.
Cancer cells almost always use only Fructose as a source of energy for growth and division!
Fructose is addictive! And by its mechanism of action on our body, it stands in the same place as narcotic substances.
And last but not least — eating Fructose is the same as eating fat, which will instantly start being deposited wherever it wants!

For healthy people, the daily norm of Fructose, whether it comes from fruit or honey, is approximately 50 g per day.

You would have to try really hard to overeat fruit and the Fructose in it. By the way, most fruits consist half of Fructose and Glucose.

It’s a completely different matter, for example, with honey (in 100 g — 45 g Fructose) or with dates (in 100 g — 25 g Fructose).

But even there, Fructose is still bound to other beneficial nutrients, which does not allow it to overload our liver so easily and strongly.

Let’s not forget about simple sugar, which is also approximately half Fructose and which many people consume in amounts far exceeding the norm.

For people suffering from chronic diseases, pregnant women, and children, consumption of this simple sugar should be minimized as much as possible! Because it is already obvious that many diseases and conditions should be blamed precisely on Fructose, and not, as previously thought — on Saturated fats.

What to use instead of Fructose?

This is a very painful issue, because even honey — a natural product — contains a fairly large amount of Fructose.

Maple syrup, on the other hand, is a good alternative, since most of the sugar in it is Glucose. Another good alternative would be natural, calorie-free Stevia.

I also urge you to stop drinking your calories in the form of fruit juices and sodas.

Avoid synthetic sweeteners, they are far more harmful than even plain sugar. The same applies to Agave syrup — a newcomer among sweeteners, it consists almost entirely of Fructose.

In America, due to its cheapness, high-fructose corn syrup (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is especially popular. Many people wonder — is it more harmful than sugar or not?

Corn syrup is an unnatural, synthetic product that consists, at the very least, of at least 50% Fructose, and some of its varieties even 99%. It is impossible to find out exactly which corn syrup a manufacturer decided to add, for example, to candy. Therefore, I advise not to consume corn syrup and not to buy food containing it.

I also ask you to protect yourself from the most terrible form of Fructose — pure Fructose as a sweetener; unbound to any substances, it is toxic! And it provokes the development of the symptoms and diseases I described above much faster!

I try to avoid sugar, as much as I can. For dessert, we always have fresh fruit at home; I sweeten desserts with this Stevia, maple syrup, honey or dates.

Yes, I know, this already sounds like a broken record — that it’s worth reducing sugar in your diet! But at least start giving preference to the right kind of sugar, and as we already know — it definitely should not be Fructose.

I urge you to start taking sugar much more seriously, because we greatly underestimate its harmful toxic properties and then suffer from it ourselves.

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