Is all sugar equally bad? If not, what makes the sugar in fruit different?
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This thread is an absolute disaster of misinformation.
Different sugars affect our body in different ways. Some of them contain fructose – and this includes fruit – which is metabolized by your liver, and is an endocrine (hormone) disruptor. It can supress the feeling that you’re full thus make you still feel hungry and contribute to over-eating.
Fruit contains fructose, but there are good things in whole fruit that make it worth eating. It’s worth noting, however, that the fruit you buy at the supermarket today has been altered over decades of selective breeding (even if organic) to contain more sugar and less fiber, meaning the cost/benefit isn’t so simple. Things like grapes cause a big insulin spike. Look at what a banana used to be. The fruit we eat today is nothing like the fruit we used to eat.
High-fructose corn syrup is not good for you, but it’s only 5% more fructose than the sugar in fruit. Drinking orange juice is just as bad for you as drinking Coke or Pepsi when it comes to your metabolism (orange juice at least has vitamins in it)
Also worth noting is emerging research around artificial sweeners that is suggesting that if you consume them at the same time as other food, you can still experience insulin spikes in your body because of the complexity of how our guts and brains work.
See: https://www.nakoo.net/social/videos/video/70-fat-chance-fructose-2-0
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