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"Agave syrup (or nectar) is about ninety percent fructose, a form of natural sugar found in fruit. fructose does not impact blood glucose (glycemic) levels as dramatically as other sweeteners such as cane sugar. Even better, because fructose is sweeter than table sugar, less is needed in your recipes. Agave also contains a complex form of fructose called inulin. A type of friendly bacteria called bifidobacteria digests inulin to produce short-chain fatty acids that have been shown to fight colon cancer. Agave also contains sapogenins, which have anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"People with IBS don't absorb lactose, fructose, and sorbitol particularly well and have more symptoms of gastrointestinal distress than healthy people do when they consume high concentrations of lactose or the combination of fructose and sorbitol. In one study, cutting out these foods resulted in symptom reduction for 40 percent of people with IBS-like symptoms. It's not surprising that many people report benefits when they eliminate milk, and even concentrated sources of fructose like fruit juice and dried fruit." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The author concurs with Julian Whitaker, MD, that fructose is a "highly reactive molecule that readily attaches to proteins, changing their structure and interfering with normal activity. Studies show that fructose accelerates glycosylation, damaging proteins to a significantly greater degree than sucrose or glucose."34 Our most prominent source of this damaging sugar is high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks, which, according to the USDA Economic Research Service, comprised more than 25 percent of the beverages consumed by Americans in 1997." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"People with IBS don't absorb lactose, fructose, and sorbitol particularly well and have more symptoms of gastrointestinal distress than healthy people do when they consume high concentrations of lactose or the combination of fructose and sorbitol. In one study, cutting out these foods resulted in symptom reduction for 40 percent of people with IBS-like symptoms. It's not surprising that many people report benefits when they eliminate milk, and even concentrated sources of fructose like fruit juice and dried fruit." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Fructose and glucose are the most common monosaccharides in food. fructose still needs to be converted into glucose in the liver in order for the body to use it in its energy production cycle. More complex sugars may be disaccharides, oligosaccharides or polysaccharides. Sucrose, being a combination of both glucose and fructose, is the most common disaccharide in food. These are digested by salivary enzymes in the mouth and upper, or cardiac, portion of the stomach in a process called prediges-tion. Starches are complex carbohydrates, or polysaccharides (many sugars)." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Take note that products listing any of the following ingredients really do contain sugar: corn sweetener, dextrin, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrates, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, lactose, malt, maltodextrin, maltose, mannitol, sorbitol, sorghum, sucrose, and xylitol. Although all of these are sugars, fructose does stand apart from the rest. Of all the sugars, fructose causes the least severe insulin reaction.26 Drugs and Alcohol Avoiding drugs and alcohol is especially important for those with sleep apnea." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"As a fellow former sugar junkie (believe me, I feel your pain), I'm very sorry to say this means NOT EATING the following versions or anything with these versions or varieties of sugar in any of your food: brown sugar, fructose, sucrose, glucose, maltose, succinate, molasses, date sugar, beet sugar, grape sugar, cane sugar, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, corn sugar, fruit juice concentrate, sorbitol, barley malt, caramel, carob syrup, maltodextrin, dextran, dextrose, sorghum syrup." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Soda, and in fact almost all processed foods, contains high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). fructose goes straight to the liver and increases insulin resistance, which leads to diabetes. So-called "sports drinks" should be eliminated, since they are high in calories. Soda, juice, and energy and sports drinks contain empty calories that will make you fat; they also contain caffeine, which is addictive and makes you consume even more of those useless calories. If you are thirsty, drink water." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"It gets even worse if you eat high-fructose corn syrup, a very common sweetener used in packaged foods. fructose increases LDL and does not improve HDL. A recent study showed that foods with a high glycemic index have a negative effect on HDL levels.98 Foods with a high glycemic index are those foods that raise blood sugar levels quickly. These foods include items such as white bread, refined cereals, white rice, and white flour pasta. These foods greatly stress blood sugar control and cause a rapid rise in blood sugar. In response, the body secretes insulin from the pancreas." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "It gets even worse if you eat high-fructose corn syrup, a very common sweetener used in packaged foods. fructose increases LDL and does not improve HDL. A recent study showed that foods with a high glycemic index have a negative effect on HDL levels.98 If you have elevated triglycerides, you can eat all the whole grains that you want, although some diets, such as the popular Zone diet, present some provocative, controversial ideas that may be contrary to this. One of the best ways to achieve a high-fiber and low-fat diet is the vegan diet." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In this way, fructose containing fruit and vegetables are a valuable protection against cardiovascular disease and other health problems. The second major problem with fructose is its ability to combine with amino acids to form advanced glycation end products (AGEs). AGEs are believed to be permanent. They accumulate in body tissues where they accelerate aging and thus contribute to the formation of cataracts, narrowing of arteries and kidney disease. High intake of fructose contributes to increased levels of glycation in the body." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Studies show that fructose accelerates glycosylation, damaging proteins to a significantly greater degree than sucrose or glucose."34 Our most prominent source of this damaging sugar is high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks, which, according to the USDA Economic Research Service, comprised more than 25 percent of the beverages consumed by Americans in 1997. A 2005 study found that the low AGE content of a low-fat vegan diet could benefit diabetics." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"This is because when you eat fruit, the amount of fructose you ingest is significantly lower than in sweetened beverages, and the metabolic effects of it are different because the increased intake of fiber, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and antioxidants helps slow absorption and improve metabolism. However, when fructose is processed into high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), it is absorbed more quickly than regular sugar and enters your cells without any help. It doesn't require the help of insulin the way glucose does." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"In a normal physiology, once the sorbitol is formed, it is metabolized by polyol dehydrogenase to fructose. This conversion to fructose allows it to be excreted from the cell. In the diabetic with high blood sugars, the sorbitol accumulates and plays a major role in the development of secondary complications. The sorbitol is involved in a variety of ways, but the basic mechanism can be seen in cataracts, as an example." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Coffee Avoid as Much as Possible Sweeteners: high-fructose com syrup, brown sugar, cane sugar, beet sugar, fructose, sucrose, glucose, maltose, dextrose, succinat, molasses, date sugar, grape sugar, com syrup, com sugar, fruit juice concentrate, sorbitol, barley malt, caramel, carob syrup Artificial sweeteners: Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal), saccharin (Sweet'N Low), sucralose (Splenda) Artificial colorings: FD&C Red no. 3, Yellow nos. 5 and 6, Blue nos." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "The following are various versions of refined sugar: cane sugar, dried cane syrup, brown sugar, beet sugar, date sugar, grape sugar, glucose, sucrose, maltose, maltodextrin, dextran, dextrose, sorbitol, corn syrup, fructose, high-fructose corn syrup, corn sugar, fruit juice, fruit juice concentrate, barley malt, caramel, carob syrup, and sorghum syrup. Look at your breakfast cereals, white breads, salad dressing, pasta sauces, yogurts, granola and health bars, canned fruits, and so on. Sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate, found in most packaged meat products and deli meats." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Even better, because fructose is sweeter than table sugar, less is needed in your recipes. Agave also contains a complex form of fructose called inulin. A type of friendly bacteria called bifidobacteria digests inulin to produce short-chain fatty acids that have been shown to fight colon cancer. Agave also contains sapogenins, which have anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. Home Remedies Mexican folklore has revered agave and considered it sacred for its ability to purify the body and soul." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Mixing glucose and fructose yields not sucrose but "invert sugar," with a sweetness of 1.3. Honey is a form of invert sugar, about 50% glucose and 50% fructose, although some varieties have more fructose and some may also contain a small percentage of sucrose. Corn syrup: The starch in corn is made from long strings of glucose. These can be broken down to produce a syrup which is a mixture of various percentages of glucose and maltose. High fructose corn syrup: Manufacturers who want a sweeter syrup can use an enzyme to convert some of the glucose in corn syrup into fructose." - Steve Carper, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance (Get the book.)

"Additional killer ingredients in processed foods are sucrose, fructose, maltose, dextrose, polydextrose, corn syrup, molasses, sorbitol, maltodextrin, high fructose corn syrup, margarine, BHA, BHT, sulfates, sulfites, dyes and colorings." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"High intake of fructose and sucrose: Consumption of these sugars may increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Hawaii and the University of Southern California. Fructose naturally occurs in fruits, while sucrose is usually extracted from sugar cane or sugar beets. Researchers analyzed dietary data on 162,150 people who had participated in the Hawaii-Los Angeles Multiethnic Cohort Study, looking for evidence that a diet with a high glycemic load increases the risk of pancreatic cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Agave nectar, from the blue agave cactus, is an especially good source of easy digestible fructose. I explain this food in detail in Chapter 5, page 158. Bananas, mangos, and papayas are also fructose-rich (and alkaline-forming). The combination of glucose- and fructose-rich fruit is a very good energy snack, providing both quick and prolonged energy. One excellent fuel source for high-performance training, racing, or intense exercise that is often overlooked is coconut oil. Coconut oil is a rich source of medium-chain triglycerides, or MCTs." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"Fructose is also one of those building blocks, found in nature mostly in fruit, where it is packaged along with fiber and an abundance of protective nutrients. But fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion and the consequent increase in leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells that tells your brain you are full, which reduces appetite. This isn't such a problem when you eat fructose the way nature intended it to be eaten, in the form of fruit." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"If simple carbohydrates, such as glucose or fructose, are examined as a function of body weight, then as Figure 14 demonstrates, the great majority of studies indicate that the greater the amount of sugar consumed, the smaller the body weight. On the other hand, if the amount of sugar in sweetened drinks is used, then the opposite effect is found—body weight increases as a function of the amount of sweetened drinks consumed, as illustrated in Figure 15. How can this apparent contradiction in findings be reconciled?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The easier ones are sucrose, fructose, maple syrup and molasses. The trickier ones to look for are dextrose, turbinado, amazake, sorbitol, carob powder and high fructose corn syrup. Quick Tip 2: How much sugar is in your food? To determine how much sugar is in a serving of any food, check the nutrition label; sugar is listed in grams. Divide the number of grams by four to get the actual teaspoons of sugar per serving (i.e., 12 grams would equal 3 teaspoons of sugar). Alcohol sugar is somewhat better than regular sugar but it is still sugar." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"The highest rates were observed with a mixture of glucose and fructose ingested at a rate of 2.4 g/min. With this feeding regimen, exogenous CHO oxidation peaked at 1.75 g/min (see Fig. 1)! This is 75% higher than what was previously thought to be the absolute maximum. The increased oxidation of ingested carbohydrate has been suggested to be beneficial, but concrete evidence for this has not yet been published." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Inulin, fructose oligosaccharides, pectin, banana, oat and soy fiber, and several resistant carbohydrates have been shown to alter microbial populations in the colon [110-112]. Several have been shown to increase, at least transiently, Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus groups that are viewed as more healthful microbes. Various saccharides might also reduce the growth of potentially pathogenic microbial populations such as Clostridium difficile [123]. The end products of fiber and carbohydrate fermentation in the colon are short-chain fatty acids and gases." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This conversion to fructose allows it to be excreted from the cell. In the diabetic with high blood sugars, the sorbitol accumulates and plays a major role in the development of secondary complications. The sorbitol is involved in a variety of ways, but the basic mechanism can be seen in cataracts, as an example. High blood sugar, either from an inability to metabolize the sugar or by eating too much sugar foods, results in the shunting of glucose to the sorbitol pathway, which is a secondary pathway." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Because fructose doesn't trigger satiety signals, the animals could consume far more calorie-laden fruit than they would if its sugars took the normal pathways in the body, so more calories were stored as fat. Conveniently, most fruit ripens in late summer and early fall, shortly before food stores traditionally become scarce. Even in the tropics, fruit ripens seasonally. That's why, for example, orangutans in Borneo only store fat during fruiting season, prior to the dry season when food is less available." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The technique of fermenting sugar, releasing energy that can be used for living and growing, and leaving behind a less-energy rich acid, has proved popular among bacteria to this day; the lactic acid that turns milk sour is the residue of bacteria that gorged on the milk sugat called lactose; so is the alcohol that bacteria leave after eating the fructose in grapes. However, the sugars available from inorganic carbon molecules are a use-it-and-lose-it resource, one that declines precipitously wherever it is used for food." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In contrast, the average apple contains 100 calories, much of it in the form of fructose. You would have to consume three bags of romaine to get the same number of calories as in an apple. Your genes always direct you to foods that supply the most calories for the least energy expenditure. Even if you thought about all the micronutrients that you might be passing up in those bags of lettuce, the shear enormity of eating them compared to the relative ease of munching a single apple drives you to the apple. No wonder our arms were designed to hang from branches to reach fruit!" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

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