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Dietary sugar consumption and health: umbrella review

Dietary sugar consumption and health: umbrella review

Fructose & Survival

Fructose & Survival

While so much is written these days calling attention to the significant threat posed by fructose on our metabolic health, it’s important to put this into historical context. As we look back in time, it is ...
What’s Making Us Fat? The Uric Acid Connection

What’s Making Us Fat? The Uric Acid Connection

So many people these days are having issues with weight gain and even obesity and with good reason. The diet that many people are consuming is remarkably different in comparison to what people ate even one ...
Fructose, Uric Acid and Diabetes

Fructose, Uric Acid and Diabetes

Over the past 100 years there has been a dramatic rise in two important health-related metrics: the incidence of type-2 diabetes and the consumption of fructose, and sugar in general. What bears exploring ...
Sugar, Uric Acid, and the Etiology of Diabetes and Obesity

Sugar, Uric Acid, and the Etiology of Diabetes and Obesity

If Fructose Is So Bad – Should I Eat Fruit?

If Fructose Is So Bad – Should I Eat Fruit?

With all the nuances of dietary recommendations from keto to paleo to vegan to who knows what else, one thing is clear: there is absolutely no need for added fructose, or any sugars for that matter, in the h...
Another Reason to Avoid Fructose

Another Reason to Avoid Fructose

Is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) really as much of a problem as people would like us to believe? And in fact, what about fructose in general? After all, the actual biochemistry of fructose metabolism does ...
Intake of fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Intake of fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Fructose and Diabetes Risk

Fructose and Diabetes Risk

Over the past several decades efforts have been made to try to convince us that, as it pertains to sugar, fructose is our best choice. One of the reasons often cited for this messaging was the misguided noti...
Added Sugars – Not a Good Choice for Infant Nutrition

Added Sugars – Not a Good Choice for Infant Nutrition

Who can forget the message of Mary Poppins telling us that "…a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." Yes, we humans certainly like our sugar. To be sure, added sugar certainly increases our desire t...