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February 7th, 2014 Blog, Fitness/Health Comments Off on Sugar Is NOT Just Sugar

Sugar Is NOT Just Sugar

1 Taspoon Sugar (sucrose)
Until about a month ago, I believed all sugars were about the same. Wrong.

Briefly, as shown in the diagram below,…

Sucrose is 1 part glucose and 1 part fructose

…sucrose – white table sugar – is made of one part glucose (the energy of life) and one part fructose (what I now regard as “feast or famine” energy).

Bottom line: glucose and fructose are two very distinct molecules structurally that are metabolized entirely differently in our bodies. Read more »

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