What is a "regular basis?"
A regular part of your diet that you eat on a daily basis.
he opined that the explosion in obesity and diabetes in the United States could largely be attributed to the federal subsidies encouraging fructose (corn) sweetener, which became a replacement for sucrose (cane and beet sugars) and is now included in most packaged foods including nearly all soft drinks in the United States.
There's no biological basis for this hypothesis. Sucrose (table sugar) is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. HCFS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose. There's no way 5% changed the course of humanity.
What did change, and you can see it in charts of macronutrient consumption, is that people started cutting out fat and replacing it with vegetable oils and carbohydrates.
Ermighard !! You're so much smarter than me !!! But anyway here is the way it was explained to me by Dr. Jackson:
Sucrose (table sugar) is 50% glucose and 50% fructose.
Sucrose is a disaccharide, also known as a "double sugar," typically derived from cane or beets. Each molecule of sucrose is equivalent to one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose, however they are chemically bonded together at the molecular level, which is what gives sucrose its own definition as a sugar. When eaten, each molecule of sucrose must be broken down by the acids and enzymes in the digestive tract, resulting ultimately in pure glucose, which is what the body utilizes to transport the nutrition to each of its cells.
HCFS is 55% fructose and 45% glucose.
I think you are referring to HFCS, or High Fructose Corn Syrup. (I looked up HCFS and it stands for Hardcore Foot Sex). Yes. corn syrup actually contains pure 100% glucose, but enzymes are added to it which digest some of the glucose and convert it into fructose, which provides a sweeter flavor. The actual ratio of glucose to fructose may vary. Both of these, however, are separate simple sugars which are not chemically bonded together and hence are more directly absorbed into the body during the digestive process.
Consuming an excessive amount of sucrose will signal the brain to give the feeling that you have had "too many sweets," as the digestive juices are used up in the breakdown of each sugar molecule, and the body subsequently needs to produce more.
Consumption of simple sugars do not signal the brain in the same way, as they are absorbed more directly: --thus, people will readily overconsume the soft drinks and other foods that contain HFCS, which may result in obesity and/or diabetes.
Sucrose is a disaccharide, also known as a "double sugar," typically derived from cane or beets. Each molecule of sucrose is equivalent to one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose, however they are chemically bonded together at the molecular level, which is what gives sucrose its own definition as a sugar. When eaten, each molecule of sucrose must be broken down by the acids and enzymes in the digestive tract, resulting ultimately in pure glucose, which is what the body utilizes to transport the nutrition to each of its cells.
Glucose is driving metabolic disease around the world. It's unfortunate that the dietary guidelines and HFCS are temporally coincidental, which just means we have to look more carefully for clues. One place we can look is the introduction of products like "Pepsi with real sugar" and "Mountain Dew Throwback" made with sucrose. I may have missed it, but I don't think we saw any decline in obesity associated with these products. We haven't seen any declines in obesity related to the explosion of artificial sweeteners and diet sodas either. There's a reason, and it's because at the population level we're still devouring more carbohydrates than ever. Carbohydrates are metabolized into glucose, regardless of the source. There is no such thing as "good sugar" or "good carbohydrates."
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