Category Archives: Glucose

Isomaltose Versus Sucrose: Postprandial Comparison

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Increasingly is it being shown that the glycaemic response following a meal is a significant contributor to the risk of disease. Meals or foods that produce high glycaemic responses are now thought to contribute to the development of insulin resistance … Continue reading →

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Roughly 50 Essential Factors

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Robert Barrington
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Fructose and Leptin

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Evidence suggests that animals fed high fructose diet have increases in adiposity, body weight and energy intake. There are now many such studies in the nutritional literature involving a wide range of animals, but centred mainly on rodents, particularly rats. … Continue reading →

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Postprandial Effects: Glucose Versus Fructose

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Robert Barrington
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Carbohydrates Foods Are Not All Equal

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Carbohydrate foods describe those with digestible starch. Bread, pasta, potato and rice are all carbohydrate foods and all contain high amounts of starch. Carbohydrates also include simple sugars such as lactose, glucose and fructose. Carbohydrate foods are interesting nutritionally because … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on Sucrose as a Metabolic Poison

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Sucrose is a disaccharide composed of a fructose and glucose moiety linked through a glucosidic bond. When ingested sucrose is hydrolysed by the sucrase enzyme to form fructose and glucose within the small intestine. The glucose and fructose are then … Continue reading →

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Sucrose: A Tail of Two Sugars

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Sucrose is the chemical name for table sugar. It is the white crystalline powder that most people put in their tea or coffee. Sucrose is chemically a disaccharide sugar, which means that it is composed of two monosaccharides joined together … Continue reading →

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Fructose and Insulin Sensitivity in Humans

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Rat studies show that feeding sucrose (table sugar) to rats can induce insulin resistance. In fact studies using intakes of sucrose equivalent to the upper range of human intakes show the development of insulin resistance in just a few weeks … Continue reading →

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Carbohydrate Timing

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Robert Barrington
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Sugary Soft Drinks: A Slow Walk to the Grave?

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Sugar consumption is associated with a significantly increased risk of many Western lifestyle diseases. In particular, high intakes of refined crystalline sugar can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and dental caries. However, it is obesity … Continue reading →

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