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Fructose Protocol

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that fructose is the single leading contributor to obesity in the western diet.”   Doctor Joseph Mercola MD, Note obesity is but ONE problem caused by this deadly "food"   Fructose is the NUMBER ONE source of calories in the US.

What Causes Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension ???

“Our data is unequivocal starch does not cause diabetes, dextrose does not cause diabetes but sucrose and fructose can cause diabetes.”   Doctor Richard Johnson MD

"It turns out that one of the most profound ways to raise uric acid is by consuming the simple sugar fructose. fructose breaks down into a variety of waste products that are bad for your body, one of which is uric acid. As it turns out, uric acid drives up your blood pressure." Doctor Richard Johnson MD

"What if you were to learn that every day, 25 percent of your calories came from a poison, disguised as a food? And what if you discovered that this chemical imposter was responsible for your insulin resistance and weight gain? And elevated blood pressure. And elevated triglycerides and LDL. And depletion of vitamins and minerals. And even gout, heart disease and liver damage? What if you were to discover that this toxic substance had been dumped into your food in gradually increasing quantities for the last thirty years, with the full knowledge and blessings of the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the USDA and the FDA?      Doctor Robert H. Lustig MD  UCSF        Start of series, NOTE You MUST watch this nine part series This video will help you kick the deadly sugar habit. Most fructose you will ingest is contained in table sugar which is half fructose and HFCS.

“Not only does fructose have more damaging effects in the presence of copper deficiency, fructose also inhibits copper metabolism--another example of the sweeteners double-whammy effect. A deficiency in copper leads to bone fragility, anemia, defects of the connective tissue, arteries, and bone, infertility, heart arrhythmias, high cholesterol levels, heart attacks, and an inability to control blood sugar levels.” Klevay, Leslie, Acting Director of the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, N.D

"Crystalline fructose “is produced by allowing the fructose to crystallize from a fructose-enriched corn syrup.” This information is from the sugar producers themselves. So, it is made from corn syrup, and not only corn syrup, but “fructose enriched” corn syrup. Sounds like another name for high fructose corn syrup. Another ingredient of crystalline fructose is arsenic. Additional chemical compounds that make up crystalline fructose are heavy metals, lead, and chloride." Doctor Joseph Mercola  HFCS on Steroids

“Fructose is rapidly metabolized in the liver flooding metabolic pathways and leading to increased triglyceride synthesis and fat storage in the liver. This can cause a rise in serum triglycerides, promoting an atherogenic lipid profile and elevating cardiovascular risk.” Gaby

“Even small amounts of fructose circulating in your blood stream are potentially damaging. The rate of fructose-protein cross linking is ten times that of glucose.” McPherson et al, Note this is HFCS accelerated glycation production

"What Could be Worse than High Fructose Corn Syrup? Enter “crystalline fructose,” a high-octane variety of HFCS. Whereas regular HFCS contains 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose, crystalline fructose is at minimum 99 percent fructose, which could only mean that all the health problems associated with fructose may be even more pronounced with this product. In addition to that, crystalline fructose may also contains arsenic, lead, chloride and heavy metals. One popular product containing crystalline fructose is Vitaminwater." Doctor Joseph Mercola, HFCS on Steroids Note you MUST read labels

"Chronic fructose exposure alone causes metabolic syndrome.”   Robert H. Lustig MD  UCSF   

"Fructose consumption increases the risk for gout.”   Robert H. Lustig MD  UCSF   

"Sugarless gums and candies sometimes contain sorbitol a sweetener that your digestive system has trouble handling. As with fructose sorbitol tends to ferment in the intestine causing diarrhea."   Prevention

"Unripe fruit is higher in antioxidants than ripe fruit. It also contains less fructose."   Doctor Richard Johnson MD, Note eat your fruit as unripe as you are able 

Refined Sugar is 50% Fructose

Not only do we get the extremely destructive fructose from HFCS but HALF of common table sugar is fructose. Buyer beware. IMO try to eliminate ALL forms of sugar from your diet except natural fruit. Even then some of us need to go light on the high sugar fruits. Like me.

Cancer and Fructose

" Importantly, fructose and glucose metabolism are quite different... These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation."    Cancer Research

"Doctor Otto Warburg first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. Malignant tumors tend to use a process where glucose is used as a fuel by the cancer cells, creating lactic acid as a byproduct. The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from cancer cells is then transported to your liver. This conversion of glucose to lactic acid generates a lower, more acidic pH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid buildup.”    Doctor Joseph Mercola MD, Note here is the important connection between cancer and pH and why you MUST pay a lot of attention to your pH especially if you have cancer. Getting your pH back to a slightly basic with all the lactic acid is a PROBLEM you  MUST solve

"ALL forms of sugar are detrimental to health in general and promote cancer, but in slightly different ways, and to a different extent. Fructose, however, clearly seems to be one of the overall most harmful.”    Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

“Cancer cells thrive on sugars, particularly fructose. It has been demonstrated that cancer cells actually metabolize glucose and fructose differently from other cells. While cancer thrives on both, it uses fructose specifically to proliferate. It’s no wonder that cancer has moved quickly up the list of killers in our society since we started adding high-fructose corn syrup to everything from sodas to bread. With such damning and irrefutable research, I still don’t understand why it hasn’t become standard practice to immediately put cancer patients on fructose-free diets to help disrupt cancer growth.”   Doctor David Williams MD

Cancer cells feed on fructose, study finds

We have known since 1924 and Doctor Warburg's discovery of the cancer mechanism that sugar plays an important part in cancer. Now we see that fructose may be the bad guy and glucose not as bad. Please remember table sugar is half fructose and HFCS may be as much as 83% fructose.

Gout and Fructose

“Women who drank two cans or more of non-diet soda a day, or 12 ounces or more of orange juice a day, were more than twice as likely to develop gout. Women who drank just one soda or 6-ounce glass of juice per day were at 74 percent and 41 percent greater risk, respectively. The culprit appears to be fructose ... [F]ructose increases levels of the chemical uric acid, which causes gout. When uric acid levels in the body get too high, the acid hardens into sharp crystals that are deposited in joints."    Journal of the American Medical Association November 10, 2010

Fructose is the leading cause of uric acid production and thus gout.

HFCS/Fructose is a Direct Cause of Metabolic Syndrome

“Fructose is isocaloric but not isometabolic. This means you can have the same amount of calories from fructose or glucose, fructose and protein, or fructose and fat, but the metabolic effect will be entirely different despite the identical calorie count.”   Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

When you eat 100 calories of fructose you will gain far more weight and move a step closer to metabolic syndrome than if you ate 100 grams of good fat or protein. This is because they are metabolized differently with the fructose promoting metabolic syndrome. I try to eat NO fructose.

Fructose PROMOTES Weight Gain

“Fructose, which is hidden in virtually every processed food, tricks your body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism, as it turns off your body's appetite-control system. Fructose does not appropriately stimulate insulin, which in turn does not suppress ghrelin (the "hunger hormone") and doesn't stimulate leptin (the "satiety hormone"), which together result in your eating more and developing insulin resistance. Fructose also rapidly leads to weight gain and abdominal obesity ("beer belly"), decreased HDL, increased LDL, elevated triglycerides, elevated blood sugar, and high blood pressure -- i.e., classic metabolic syndrome.”   Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

There is little question IMO that fructose promotes weight gain. The evidence is there. This nation started ballooning out as HFCS was introduced.

Fructose Promotes

• Abdominal obesity
• Anemia
• Arthritis
• Arrhythmias
• Bone fragility
• Blood Sugar Problems
• Cancer
• Chromium Dysfunction
• Copper Dysfunction
• CVD
• Diabetes
• Fat
• Gout
• HBP
• Heavy Metal Accumulation
• High Cholesterol
• High LDL
• High triglycerides
• High Uric Acid
• Glycation
• Insulin resistance
• Magnesium Dysfunction
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Obesity
• Liver disease
• Weight Gain

UnRipe Fruit is Lower in Fructose

"Unripe fruit is higher in antioxidants than ripe fruit. It also contains less fructose."   Doctor Richard Johnson MD, Note eat your fruit as unripe as you are able the ripening process converts the carbs to sugars this conversion consumes antioxidants

I have started to like the taste of the less sweet unripe fruit.

HFCS and Crystalline Fructose Products from HELL

"Doctor Richard Johnson has developed a program to help people optimize their uric acid levels, and the key step in this program is complete elimination of fructose."

“Of all the molecules capable of inflicting damage in your body, probably the most damaging of all are sugar molecules. Fructose in particular is an extremely potent pro-inflammatory agent that speeds up the aging process. Fructose has become the number one source of calories in most all developed countries.”   Doctor Joseph Mercola MD, Note one more reason you CANNOT eat processed food. Processed food is loaded with fructose.

Fructose contained in fruit is OK in moderation since the fiber (See Fiber Protocol) in the fruit will slow the release of the Fructose. Free Fructose used to sweeten food and drink is not good. HFCS (See HFCS Protocol) is worse. Fructose interferes with copper (See Copper Protocol) metabolism to such an extent that collagen (See Collagen Protocol) and elastin production is impeded. Women and some men, me included who don’t want saggy skin (See Skin Protection Protocol), please take note this means saggy skin among other more serious problems. More than small amounts of pure Fructose can quickly harm your liver (See Liver Protection Protocol). Fructose raises triglyceride (See Triglyceride Protocol) levels a lot, and is thus a very dangerous sugar you should avoid. Fructose is known to inhibit the excretion of uric acid and thus can worsen or lead to gout (See Gout Protection Protocol) and a whole host of other arthritic like problems.

Fructose contains no beneficial enzymes (See Enzymes Protocol), vitamins, minerals or micronutrients and actually leeches them from your body. Unbound fructose, found in large quantities in HFCS (See HFCS Protocol), can interfere with your heart's use of vital minerals such as magnesium, copper and chromium and thus IMO is a factor in sudden, no warning, heart attacks.

For alternatives to Fructose as a sweetener (See Sweetener Protocol)

Agave is HIGH in Fructose 

             Source Doctor Mercola MD from lab analysis

More

http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/highfructose.html

The Extreme Dangers of Fructose 

Fructose Can Cause Your Blood Pressure to Skyrocket

This site was last updated on: 19 July 2011 12:04 PM

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