Sugar Makes You Dumb

[Patrick]

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.ca/201...spain.html

...We add it to other foods, reducing nutritional value and increasing energy density, seductiveness, and palatability. However, none of those problems apply to whole fresh fruit, which is also rich in fructose and has been eaten in quantity by our ancestors for tens of millions of years. So is fructose really the main problem, or is it the overconsumption of low-nutrition refined foods in general?...

...We looked at bodyweight -- which is the Annals [of Internal Medicine] data that you’re aware of -- in each case there was no effect of fructose when it was isocalorically exchanged. There was no adverse effect on bodyweight, blood pressure, or uric acid. We do see a very consistent and strong effect on bodyweight when fructose is providing excess energy...

Here is the actual full interview: http://evolvinghealthscience.blogspot.ca...-john.html