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<blockquote data-quote="Gyorgy_Jaros" data-source="post: 1868957" data-attributes="member: 460386"><p>Hoping that this might help with the confusion:</p><p></p><p>Carbohydrates we eat, with the exception of milk carbohydrates, are long chains that are broken down to glucose. The glucose is absorbed into the blood and becomes available for energy production in the body. Sugar is also a carbohydrate: a 50-50 combination of glucose and fructose, the latter having no direct energy providing role, and being handled by the body differently from the former. It is taken up by the liver and turned into certain kinds of fatty substances that can cause insulin resistance, among other things. The liver can convert a small protion of fructose consumed into glucose, but this amount is well below the amount one consumes nowadays.</p><p></p><p>Thus, while there are other factors as well, the fructose part of sugar actually causes insulin resistance, which is a precursor of Type II diabetes. Glucose and other carbohydrates do not cause insulin resistance, but they convert it into prediabetes, and eventually Type II diabetes, through their insulin stimulating activity. The pancreas eventually fails to deliver any insulin at all and, therefore the condition becomes a fully blown Type II diabetes. Therefore, the main reason for avoiding sugar is to prevent the development of insulin resistance. It has nothing to do with calories, glycaemic rates or loading, HbA1C, or even with rates of absorption.</p><p>Regard sugar as medicine, like all medicines, may be acceptable in very small concentrations, but can be a poison in large concentrations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gyorgy_Jaros, post: 1868957, member: 460386"] Hoping that this might help with the confusion: Carbohydrates we eat, with the exception of milk carbohydrates, are long chains that are broken down to glucose. The glucose is absorbed into the blood and becomes available for energy production in the body. Sugar is also a carbohydrate: a 50-50 combination of glucose and fructose, the latter having no direct energy providing role, and being handled by the body differently from the former. It is taken up by the liver and turned into certain kinds of fatty substances that can cause insulin resistance, among other things. The liver can convert a small protion of fructose consumed into glucose, but this amount is well below the amount one consumes nowadays. Thus, while there are other factors as well, the fructose part of sugar actually causes insulin resistance, which is a precursor of Type II diabetes. Glucose and other carbohydrates do not cause insulin resistance, but they convert it into prediabetes, and eventually Type II diabetes, through their insulin stimulating activity. The pancreas eventually fails to deliver any insulin at all and, therefore the condition becomes a fully blown Type II diabetes. Therefore, the main reason for avoiding sugar is to prevent the development of insulin resistance. It has nothing to do with calories, glycaemic rates or loading, HbA1C, or even with rates of absorption. Regard sugar as medicine, like all medicines, may be acceptable in very small concentrations, but can be a poison in large concentrations. [/QUOTE]
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