Scientists Say Fructose Changes Brain To Cause Overeating
_Featured_, Diet, Health-Wellness Saturday, January 5th, 2013
Eating or drinking fructose appears to cause changes in the brain that can lead to overeating, according to a new finding that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Using brain imaging, Yale University researchers discovered that fructose triggers regions of the brain that increase appetite. Fructose, which is manufactured from sugar cane, beets and corn, is often added to processed foods and drinks. Consumption of fructose has risen dramatically since the 1970s — along with obesity.
When the researchers analyzed the brain’s reaction to glucose, the scans showed people had increased levels of hormones that can make them feel full. The study sample size was small (only 20 subjects), so the results are not conclusive.
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There are two basic fructose distinctions that are ignored here. Mother nature’s version of fructose comes in fruits and berries as well as grains & vegetables. Mother nature’s fructose may or may not do the same thing that processed fructose does when extracted, cooked, mixed with other things, and, generally, introduced into the body in strange compositions. Surely science has not become so blindly religious that it ignores such commonly basic observations. Or has it?
[...] Scientists Say Fructose Changes Brain To Cause Overeating (consciouslifenews.com) [...]
FRUCTOSE!? : Indeed it burns your brain cells away slowly, and similar to sugar it does. Doctor Proffessor Geuns from the K.U. University of Leuven – Belgium, made Laboratory toxicology analyses during 30 years and stated clearly those substances like Fructose’s and sugars, (all processed sweet food additives) are toxic and harmful for the brain and many other organs. Myself being a certified orthomlecular medical nutrition therapist, advice everyone to decrease the sugar consumption to the lowest level possible, and to consume sugars that aren’t processed at all but just natural, such as: direct sugarcane “cold pressed”, cold pressed honey, and slow carbohydrates like fruit (preferably not dried but purely fresh fruit) such that one can allow oneself body to metabolically transfer the slow carbohydrates into fuel for the cell-structures. We actually shall never feed our cells with sugars, but mostly with substances that one can find in nature. There are plenty of studies done by universities that show that sugar and fructoses affect the brain cells and our dopamine’s stronger than hard drugs leading to addiction, and the neurological poisoning can be avoided by alerting the public about the dangers of consuming foodstuffs wherein the sugars are added by the manufacturers of food. Maybe awareness and education together with sensibly the public about the dangers of sugars is The Crucial and Urgent approach. Look at this petition and sign up and share others to do the same please: http://www.change.org/petitions/law-enforcement-for-a-health-warning-label-attention-to-all-health-ministries-of-all-countries-and-the-world-health-organization
Have also a look at the following pages: http://www.antisugarassociation.org
And also this page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anti-Sugar-Association-ASA/113254575369187?ref=hl