When you consume glucose it is absorbed into the blood and if not needed
immediately, converted to glycogen. Glycogen is the short term energy
storage supply, and is converted into glucose if and when needed.
However only so much glycogen can be stored, and if more is generated
than can be stored, then some is converted into fat for long term storage.
Now if you eat fruit, it is converted first into glycogen, then as
needed into glucose for energy when needed. It has a lower glycemic
index because of this conversion into glycogen first. That is good, and
makes fructose in fruit one of the better sources of sugar.
But when it is in something like a soda, there is way more of it than
would be needed for energy, and it is easy to quickly reach the maximum
holding point for the glycogen, sodas will typically get you so much
more sugar than fruit. So if you drink more soda than the body can burn
as fuel and fill up the glycogen storage system, it is quickly converted
to fat, which is why soda's can cause obesity.
Marshall
Annie B Smythe wrote:
No Ode, it's not fructose it's not ftuctose itself that's the culprit,
rather HFCS. It changes from something good that's found in fruit to
something else entirely when they process it. And it ends up
conataining mercury a lot of the time.
Bethann
Control your destiny or somebody else will.~Jack Welsh
Ode Coyote wrote:
So it's fructose that's the culprit..so..one shouldn't eat fruit or
you'll get fat.
..or is it just plain too much sugar of all sorts?
..or something else that's unique to the individual and just not simple.
My blood sugar has been high all my scrawny life and I wasn't raised
with any sweets at all.
Every time it gets tested, the doc scratches his head and sends me
out the door with instructions to fast for a day and come back.
I come back and he scratches his head again, checks blood flow to my
feet, calls it exceptionally great and sends me away without further
comment.
In 50 years NO ONE has ever bothered to tell me what the heck they
see. [ I only assume it was unchanged after fasting and nothing like
what they expected to see. ]
From personal observation of energy levels, I don't start losing
energy till about the 2nd day of not eating anything, nor have I ever
felt a "sugar rush"
Odd Ball? No surprise there.
Ode
At 11:01 AM 3/12/2010 -0500, you wrote:
The question is does it contain corn syrup which is nearly 100%
glucose and great energy food for the body when expending a lot of
energy since glucose is what the body burns, or high fructose corn
syrup which is nearly 100% fructose and is converted by the liver
into fat which is stored, causing the body to produce more insulin
because it expects at least some glucose with the sweet taste, and
thus makes you hungry leading to obesity both ways. It is
implicated in much of the obesity of Americans, or any culture where
they drink lots of soft drinks.
Marshall
Ode Coyote wrote:
What's wrong with Glucose? [Can't live without it ]
Skip a few Snickers and you'll be fine.
Ode
At 02:51 PM 3/11/2010 -0600, you wrote:
I wouldn't touch gatorade. Have you checked the ingredients?
Yes, you'd get potassium, but also lots of things you probably
aren't wanting, including sugar/corn syrup. Sara
gatorade.
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