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Old May 20th, 2012, 02:31 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
Doug Freyburger
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Default Sugar can make you dumb!

Bill O'Meally wrote:
Dogman cited:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/sugar-dumb-...190918006.html


Interesting article. I'll assume you posted the article to prompt
discussion, rather than to flame two other posters :-)


When I read the article I thought it was a flame by scientists who
conducted the experiment, goot too little result to really mean
anything, flamed as their article.

Also, I would have liked to have seen a group get a sucrose solution to
compare that to the HFCS. I'd love to see further scientific evidence
to help shut up those ads about how HFCS is "just sugar", and is
actually good for you.


There are studies where groups of rats are fed the same number of
calories of different types of sugars. The groups that get more
fructose do gain more weight than the groups that get more glucose. The
effect by type of sugar is tiny compared to eating too much sugar of
any sort.

Eat far less sugar and it stops mattering what type. The fact that
fruits that have sugar in them are beneficial to people who have never
gotten fat in the first place teaches us that fructose or any other type
of sugar is not evil in an of itself. When overused it becomes toxic.
But once overused it stays toxic at even small doses and that's why
those of us who are natural low carbers need to keep any sugar intake
low.