The worse part of high fructose corn syrup is the fructose, not the glucose.  It is, by the way, not much different than table sugar.  HFCS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose.  Table sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose.  Your apple is 55-60% fructose and 40-45% glucose.  The sugar in your apple and HFCS are about exactly the same.  If the apple was not just picked and eaten but bought from a grocery store, the time that has past has reduced any nutritive content of that apple significantly.  Todays fruits are just about the same as a sweet beverage.  But, more on fructose.

- Fructose has no enzymes, vitamins, and minerals… so it takes micronutrients from your body to assimilate itself.
- Fructose is not converted to useable glucose, but instead is removed by the liver.
- Fructose converts to fat more than other sugars leading to greater weight gain.
- Fructose raises serum triglycerides.
- Fructose increases total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol.
- Fructose reduces insulin sensitivity.
- Fructose interferes with the metabolism of minerals and chelates
minerals out of the body including iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc and
copper.
- Fructose increase lactic acid in the blood.
- Fructose can cause bloating, gas and diarrhea.






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Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 9:08:57 AM
Subject: Re: Zero Carb

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:59:48 -0500, Bill Wilcox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> And just like animals, plants don't want to be eaten.

Not necessarily.  Many plants seeds use animals as a distribution system.

> The fruits we eat today have been bred to have way too much sugar, fructose, which has been show to be much worse than table sugar.

If you're getting your fructose from high fructose corn syrup, I agree.  But you're not going to convince me that it's worse to eat a super-sweet apple than it is to eat a handful of sugar candy.

--  Robert Kesterson
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