Food firms using fructose will be able to boast of health benefits despite fruit sugar being implicated in soaring US obesity levels.
But the EU has now ruled that food and drink manufacturers can claim their sweetened products are healthier if they replace more than 30% of the glucose and sucrose they contain with fructose. The decision was taken on the advice of the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa), on the grounds that fructose has a lower glycaemic index (GI) – it does not cause as high and rapid a blood sugar spike as sucrose or glucose.
But, say obesity experts, fructose is metabolised differently from other sugars – it goes straight to the liver and unprocessed excess is stored there as fat, building up deposits that can cause life-threatening disease.
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Eddie my bold.
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But, say obesity experts, fructose is metabolised differently from other sugars – it goes straight to the liver and unprocessed excess is stored there as fat, building up deposits that can cause life-threatening disease.
But what do the food companies care, they see more profit coming in and so what if it causes more problems there friends in big pharma can make more money when Doctors prescribe more and more drugs. What a wonderful world, I don't think.Who is behind EFSA?
Martin
Canadian CBC aired an excellent documentary just two weeks ago on "The
Secrets of Sugar": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDaYa0AB8TQ
It shows how the sugar industry deliberately concealed the health risks known to them already back in the 70s.
Sounds like tobacco tactics?
Sounds like some historically unprecedented legal and financial claims?
Sounds like Coca Cola will only be allowed to advertise mineral water at Olympic Games and soccer world cups?
I think so.
Have you ever wondered why "life-style" diseases started spreading only once sugar consumption surpassed the metabolically safe levels of max.
50g/day (acc. to WHO) back in 1900?
And why they exploded only since sugar is found in almost every processed food?
(http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/Fructose/Fructose.html).
Have you ever wondered why ADHD became the number one performance killer in our schools? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21904085
Have you ever wondered why insulin-dependent forms of cancer are on the rise?
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/blog/the-warnings-from-a-cancer-doctor
Because sugar and HFCS both contain fructose, which messes up the whole metabolic system.
Evolutionarily, it was meant as a fruity calorie boost once a year prior to winter.
Today, it's the all-year number one calorie source in the US, and on the rise worldwide.
Something went wrong.
Something has to change.
As a first step, the EU must withdraw their "health claim" and issue a
"health warning" of fructose and sugar in general.
Only then will we be back on the right track.
We can change legal laws any time - but we cannot change biochemical laws.
Please spread the word.
Only half the story. It would be a storm in a teacup if the current low EU quota on the use of HGFS remained in place. There isn't enough of it available to make much difference.
This quota is due to end in 2017 leaving the door wide open for the replacement of sucrose with HGFS.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/uk-sugar-eu-isoglucose-idUKBRE9680FP20130709
This is one issue that people from all sorts of backgrounds and views may agree on.
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