Dean Esmay wrote:
>
> >> There's another problem here.  Fructose is known to be atherogenic when
> >> eaten in large quantities.
> >
> >What I've read last in the reviewed literature is that this is the case
> >in rats.  The conclusion for me is that it directly applies to lawyers
> >and we may encounter an inter-species extrapolation problem.
>
> <chuckle>  Well let me be more precise then; intake of fructose has been
> shown to increase blood triglycerides.  For examples, see:
>
> Hollenbeck, CB.  Dietary fructose effects on lipoprotein metabolism and
> risk for coronary artery disease. Am J Clin Nutr, 1993 Nov, 58:5 Suppl,
> 800S-809S
>
> Jeppesen, J; Chen, YI et. al. Postprandial triglyceride and retinyl ester
> responses to oral fat: effects of fructose.  Am J Clin Nutr, 1995 Apr,
> 61:4, 787-91
>
> Truswell_AS. Food carbohydrates and plasma lipids--an update. Am J Clin
> Nutr, 1994 Mar, 59:3 Suppl, 710S-718S
>
> Swanson, JE et. al. Metabolic effects of dietary fructose in healthy
> subjects. Am J Clin Nutr, 1992 Apr, 55:4, 851-6
>
> Bantle, JP et. al.  Metabolic effects of dietary fructose in diabetic
> subjects. Diabetes Care, 1992 Nov, 15:11, 1468-76
>
> Note that some researchers firmly believe that the elevated triglyceride
> response observed in many human subjects as a results of a high-fructose
> diet is temporary and should not affect most healthy young adults, there
> does not appear to be a clear consensus on the matter.  It is also readily
> acknowledged even among skeptical sources that some people are clearly
> sensitive to the stuff and will show ongoing trouble with triglycerides
> (and possibly other serum lipids as well) with a high-fructose diet.

Question:  How much fruit (pick one) does it take to make a level
teaspoonful of pure crystaline fructose sugar?  It is possible to eat
enough fruit in one sitting to absorb the amount of fructose it took in
the above mentioned studies to CAUSE the arthrogenic effects or the
hypertriglyceridemia seen in those studies?  The bigest question for me
here aand many of these authors is the role fructose sweeteners may play
in the food we eat (might I say the highly processed food we eat).
Let's be clear, fruit and naturally(?) occuring fructose in whole foods
(?) are okay to eat and may not have come close to inducing
hypertryglyceridemia or be arthrogenic.

Andrew  x-S
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