It's not just high fructose corn syrup that will get you, fructose from any source, including certain fruit with high concentrations as well as table sugar will mess with your liver and other body bits.
In fact, HFCS is only High Fructose in comparison with corn syrup, approximately 50% fructose/50% glucose vs corn syrup at 100% glucose. Table sugar (sucrose) is also 50-50 glucose and fructose.
From SciTechDaily, February 19:
Researchers say an evolutionary foraging instinct that relied on the sugar fructose, may now be fueling the formation of Alzheimer’s disease.
An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose production in the brain, may hold clues to the development and possible treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This is according to scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Published recently in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the study offers a new way of looking at a fatal disease characterized by abnormal accumulations of proteins in the brain that slowly erode memory and cognition.
“We make the case that Alzheimer’s disease is driven by diet,” said the study’s lead author Richard Johnson, MD, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine specializing in renal disease and hypertension. The study co-authors include Maria Nagel, MD, research professor of neurology at the CU School of Medicine.
Johnson and his team suggest that AD is a harmful adaptation of an evolutionary survival pathway used in animals and our distant ancestors during times of scarcity....
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