Fructose

[Amethyst579]

This is interesting "Fructose Leads to Weight Gain, Physical Inactivity, and Body Fat"

Read more: http://www.diabetescare.net/article...hysical-inactivity-and-body-fat#ixzz3bw0lX1jt and full article in Nature is here http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150411/srep09589/full/srep09589.html Professor Robert Lustig has an excellent presentation on YouTube about Fructose metabolism.

 

[andcol]

yep - it turns off your leptin receptors so you do not feel full so that you gorge. Which is great if you only eat fruit the end of the summer so you store fats for the winter. Unfortunately we eat it all year round. You also need vitamin D to process it and therefore why there is so much vit D deficieny in the western world given that sugar is also 40% fructose and the introduction of fructose in so many foods