Picked up a 2-year old National Geographic mag. at Goodwill today, cover article caught my eye, "Sugar- Why We can't Resist It". Knew it would be awhile, waiting for my wife to find some duds for a trip to Indiana.
It's a historical narrative as much as scientific, explaining things about how sugar "came to be" in the first place. As a youngster I consumed abnormally large quantities of carbonated beverages, before the days of artificially-sweetened. My teeth paid the price. By my late teens, I was cutting way back on sugar consumption, even bought the little saccharin tablets sold for diabetics to use in my ever-lovin' coffee. Then along came "Tab" soda, cyclamate-sweetened, as well as Fresca. My main concern has always been over tooth-decay, never other harmful effects, which though spoken of, I tended to ignore.
Forum membership here has revealed to me a number of folks vitally concerned about sugar ingestion. Until this article, I have kind of ignored their perspectives about sugar. But, convinced now, I am. Never knew fructose, fruit sugar, found naturally, did not provide food energy to the body as sucrose, or glucose, does. The latter swims about in the bloodstream providing cellular nourishment (no, Jim, not cell-phone nourishment!). Fructose is on the other hand metabolized by the liver to FAT, which goes on to provide nourishment, along with the nice side-effect of coating our arteries (whether good or bad).
I can't scan the whole danged article, and not sure how to provide a link. I'll try that angle. It was in the August, 2013 issue. imp
It's a historical narrative as much as scientific, explaining things about how sugar "came to be" in the first place. As a youngster I consumed abnormally large quantities of carbonated beverages, before the days of artificially-sweetened. My teeth paid the price. By my late teens, I was cutting way back on sugar consumption, even bought the little saccharin tablets sold for diabetics to use in my ever-lovin' coffee. Then along came "Tab" soda, cyclamate-sweetened, as well as Fresca. My main concern has always been over tooth-decay, never other harmful effects, which though spoken of, I tended to ignore.
Forum membership here has revealed to me a number of folks vitally concerned about sugar ingestion. Until this article, I have kind of ignored their perspectives about sugar. But, convinced now, I am. Never knew fructose, fruit sugar, found naturally, did not provide food energy to the body as sucrose, or glucose, does. The latter swims about in the bloodstream providing cellular nourishment (no, Jim, not cell-phone nourishment!). Fructose is on the other hand metabolized by the liver to FAT, which goes on to provide nourishment, along with the nice side-effect of coating our arteries (whether good or bad).
I can't scan the whole danged article, and not sure how to provide a link. I'll try that angle. It was in the August, 2013 issue. imp