Artifex Bellator
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While reading an anti-sugar Mercola article, I came across this interesting quote:
"Fructose elevates uric acid, which decreases nitric oxide, raises angiotensin, and causes your smooth muscle cells to contract, thereby raising your blood pressure and potentially damaging your kidneys"
So I Googled it. Pages and pages of the exact same quote came up on search after search. This is obviously coming from a particular source, does anyone know the source of this and have a counter argument?
I would think that a slight raise in BP is a stretch to say it would cause damage to the kidneys. I see they used the word "potentially", to increase the association of sugar and negative health issues. That logic could be used in many different ways to simulate a valid argument, but what about the other parts of the statement?
"Fructose elevates uric acid, which decreases nitric oxide, raises angiotensin, and causes your smooth muscle cells to contract, thereby raising your blood pressure and potentially damaging your kidneys"
So I Googled it. Pages and pages of the exact same quote came up on search after search. This is obviously coming from a particular source, does anyone know the source of this and have a counter argument?
I would think that a slight raise in BP is a stretch to say it would cause damage to the kidneys. I see they used the word "potentially", to increase the association of sugar and negative health issues. That logic could be used in many different ways to simulate a valid argument, but what about the other parts of the statement?