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It's fructose in tomatoes!

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I checked and got the answer from Bernstein. It's fructose in tomatoes, which he avoids and it's in carrots too.
It's now known that fructose encourages triglyceride formation and it also interferes with the awareness of satiety, which is why some low carb diets advise against it. I still haven't checked the quantities of fructose in tomatoes or carrots. that's next on the list. I doubt if it's enough to stop me eating them.
 
Hi Hana,
This article may be of interest to you.

Regards Graham

High Fructose Intake Could Lead To Weight Gain And Obesity
Dear Reader,

Sugar intake creates cravings that prompt further sugar intake.

And now we find (no surprise) that fructose intake sets the same cycle in motion. But if you enjoy a soft drink now and then, and you'd like to do so without jumping on the merry- go-round of craving, an HSI member offers a sweet suggestion.

The ups and downs

You can thank your lucky hormones you don't weigh 800 pounds.

During a meal, your levels of the hormones insulin and leptin rise, triggering a feeling of being full. So unless you've paid for an all-you-can-eat buffet, you stop consuming. Later, your level of ghrelin, another hormone, begins to rise, prompting hunger.

It's a good system. It controls, rewards, and protects. It's also easy to undo.

In a previous alert I told you about a study in which nutrition researchers at the University of California, Davis in the US, examined the effects that fructose beverages have on insulin, leptin, and ghrelin levels in subjects of normal weight.

Blood samples showed that insulin and leptin (prompting being full) levels were lower, and ghrelin (prompting hunger) levels were higher in subjects who drank fructose beverages compared to subjects who drank glucose beverages. Researchers concluded that these hormonal responses to heavy fructose consumption could lead to excessive caloric intake, weight gain, and obesity.

A US research team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine recently added additional evidence to that finding.

In animal studies, the Hopkins team demonstrated that the brain metabolizes fructose faster than glucose, so its effects are more strongly felt. This depletes cellular levels of a key energy-storage molecule known as ATP. The result: Appetite increases.

The researchers write: "The fact that fructose metabolism by the brain increases food intake and obesity risk raises health concerns in view of the large and increasing per capita consumption of high fructose sweeteners, especially by youth."

And they could have added: especially in soft drink consumption.

http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/conten ... type=HWCIT
 
Thanks Graham1
High fructose corn syrup is a menace in the USA, but as long as their department of Agriculture subsidises corn production, and Americans have the horrendous sweet tooth they have, they are stuck with it.
 
So If corn syrup is so gigot loaded with fructose and my daughter is not only allergic to fructose and sucrose but is a server Coeliac and allergic to gluten and wheat, what do I feed her? I am beginning to think that she can't eat anything anymore and am at my wits end. She has been a very sick little girl for going on 11 years now and every year is bringing more and more problems.
 
Hi and welcome to the forum.

I am bumping your post up in the hope that someone will answer it.

Take care.

Leesa 1234 said:
So If corn syrup is so gigot loaded with fructose and my daughter is not only allergic to fructose and sucrose but is a server Coeliac and allergic to gluten and wheat, what do I feed her? I am beginning to think that she can't eat anything anymore and am at my wits end. She has been a very sick little girl for going on 11 years now and every year is bringing more and more problems.
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I assume from your post that you are in the US.

Having recently spent six weeks on the West Coast (obviously making me an expert) I agree that most processed foods seem to be full of corn syrup and the general claim for 'healthy food' is not low sugar but that they don't use corn syrup as a sweetener.

I was stunned by the amount of sugar in everything.

What to feed your daughter on?

Well, nutrition 101 :D

Avoid any processed foods - then as long as you don't buy corn syrup your daughter won't get to eat any at home.
This includes breakfast cereals of any kind.
Just treat breakfast as another meal and eat the same food.
Salad for breakfast is cool 8)

Avoid any foods based on wheat and you will avoid the coeliac complications.

This puts you right down the middle of the low carb diet promoted on this forum!

Beans and pulses.
Any vegetables - you are better off than most T2s in that you can lay into the root vegetables as well as the leaf vegetables.
However go gently, as tomatoes and carrots seem to be fructose rich. Leaf vegetables should be fine.
Proteing, protein, protein.
Eggs, fish, meat (although I do hear some scary things about antibiotics used in US meat prodction).
Dairy products (don't get me started on US cheese).
Fruit of all kinds seem to be a risk as she is allergic to fructose which is a fruit sugar.
Join us and avoid fruit.

Viv's modified Atkins might be a way to go.

You need to make a list of foods, eliminate the ones with gluten or fructose, then start meal planning with what is left.
Don't look at pre-packaged and processed foods.
Look at the natural fresh ingredients and start from there.

Ignore what the media tells you that you should eat at any meal, and just prepare what you like and eat it when you like.

I would recommend bacon and eggs for breakfast, but I don't regard the fat with a few pink bits in that I found in the US as bacon :twisted:

Yeah, I returned to the UK bitter and twisted over the food (but loved the country and the people).

Cheers

LGC
 
I stopped being a vegetarian when my husband gave me British bacon for the first time because it tasted so much better than what we had in the US. However, if you can get Canadian Bacon, Back Bacon, or PeaMeal (sp?) Bacon it is fairly similar. Also, Pork Roll is amazing.....
 
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