InChristAlone
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Unfortunately too much fructose can fatten the liver and cause high triglycerides for sedentary individuals. Fructose cannot be directly metabolized by most cells, it has to be processed first in the gut, liver and kidneys, where it is converted into glucose, lactate and fatty acids. But fructose can enhance glucose oxidation and restore glycogen during and after exhaustive exercise. Sucrose is beneficial for exercise but what about for people like me who sit at their computer a good portion of the day? Ray Peaters are using sugar because they become dependent on it if they have developed hepatic insulin resistance. (which might be me after a high fructose diet for 10 yrs perfect blood sugars but high adrenaline after highly refined starches)But.... why?
Fructose can be oxidized more easily than glucose, and can even be used as carbohydrate when glucose can't. This is one of the main points that Peat makes.
Glucose and sucrose for diabetes.
Since the first doctor noticed, hundreds of years ago, that the urine of a diabetic patient tasted sweet, it has been common to call the condition the sugar disease, or sugar diabetes, and since nothing was known about physiological chemistry, it was commonly believed that eating too much sugar...raypeat.com
If it is both interchangeable with glucose, more easily metabolized, and also provides special functions that glucose can't, what is the reasoning to favor starch over sugars?
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