Terry Chamberlin wrote: > Marshal said: > > Sucrose is glucose plus fructose. Sucrose is the > disaccharide, and frutose and glucose are the > mono-saccharides. I am not sure where you are getting > that information, but it is wrong.> > > You are correct. I was pulling info out of my head > from memory (getting spotty these last few years!). I > can remember when it was all the rage for awhile for > hypoglycemic folks to use fructose instead of sugar > (sucrose) because, they were told, fructose was a more > complex sugar that took longer to break down. That was > a load of something, wasn't it?
You are half right. Hypoglycemic people do take fructose, or glucose. The reason is that they are simple sugars which bring up the blood sugar level very quickly. I use to give my wife honey which is a combination of these two simple sugars when she had type II diabetes and would get hypoglycemic. It works much faster than the more complex sucrose sugar which can be very important since they can go into a coma, and once in a coma, getting them any sugar without an IV is virtually impossible. When the sugar level is low, you want immediate elevation of the sugar, not something that takes a long time. Marshall > > > The three signs of advancing age are 1. Loss of > memory, and, uh, 2., uh, I can't remember the other two. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
