Tag Archives: Fructose

Soft Drinks: Another Study, More Bad News

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Regular readers of this blog will be aware of the detrimental effects that soft drink consumption has on health (here, here, here and here). Sugar sweetened soft drinks are damaging because of the presence of fructose either in the form … Continue reading →

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Fructose and Ethanol: Do They Have a Good Side?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Crystalline fructose devoid of its natural fibre, and ethanol (alcohol) are metabolic poisons that have deleterious effects on the liver (here). Because both are almost exclusively metabolised in hepatic tissue, large influxes over a short period of time result in … Continue reading →

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Central Adiposity: Harbinger of Doom

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Robert Barrington

The body mass index (BMI) is the current accepted medical technique for assessing the degree to which a subject is overweight, and by extrapolation their risk of cardiovascular disease. The Worlds Health Organisation (WHO) has BMI classifications for normal weight, … Continue reading →

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Can You Lose Weight Without Dieting?

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Robert Barrington

That ‘dieting’ is necessary for weight loss is an erroneous belief peddled by the diet and food industry. The law of thermodynamics shows that energy balance dictates weight gain or loss, this is true. However, for a forced calorie restriction … Continue reading →

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Fructose and Ethanol: Brothers in Disease

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Research suggests that moderate intakes of ethanol in the form of wine, beer, cider, spirits or other alcoholic drinks are beneficial to the health. Although their polyphenol content has been shown to contribute a certain degree of this protective effect, … Continue reading →

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Palmitoleic Acid: de Novo Lipogenesis Marker?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Robert Barrington

High intakes of fructose in the absence of adequate fibre are known to cause liver overload which stimulates the hepatic de novo lipogenesis pathway. Palmitic acid (PA, C16:0) is a 16 carbon saturated fatty acid that is the end product … Continue reading →

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Fatty Liver: Bad News

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Robert Barrington

arbohydrates are increasingly being seen as the cause of weight gain and obesity. More specifically, overconsumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates are now considered to be a direct cause of insulin resistance, which subsequently causes development of the metabolic syndrome … Continue reading →

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Too Sweet and Too Fat

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Robert Barrington

ietary fructose is increasingly being seen as the cause of obesity. This is because fructose is the primary driver of mammalian insulin resistance that leads to abdominal fat accumulation and development of the metabolic syndrome. The most common fructose containing … Continue reading →

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Beans and Oats: Cholesterol Control

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Robert Barrington

igh plasma concentrations of cholesterol do not cause cardiovascular disease. Instead, both high levels of the small dense low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle and low concentrations of the high density lipoprotein (HDL) particle are associated with cardiovascular disease. This is … Continue reading →

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Fructose Digestion and Absorption

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Robert Barrington

ructose is increasingly being seen as a major contributory cause of the insulin resistance that characterises the metabolic syndrome. Fructose is present naturally in nature in foods such as fruits, but evidence suggests that consumption of fruit does not lead … Continue reading →

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