Fructose

New obsession: avoiding fructose in all its forms. I watched a video last night about how the body processes fructose (only in the liver) and what gets created when it gets processed (really bad stuff), and I'm now scared out of my mind.

I'm planning on avoiding anything with fructose in it, including High Fructose Corn Syrup, table sugar, molasses, maple syrup, and honey.

Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

It's by Robert Lustig, an endocrinologist and pediatrician, given at UCSF in 2009. It's long. To sum up his conclusions:

Fructose metabolism leads to hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and gout.

Fructose makes your body think it's starving, and so people will continue eating for longer if they are on a high fructose diet.

Glucose not so much.