toxic sugar
table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. high fructose corn syrup is 45% glucose and 55% fructose. fruit contains nearly 100$ fructose. sugar pretty much goes straight into the blood stream. your pancreas notices and produces insulin. which is some sort of signal to every cell in your body to metabolize sugar. but your liver is the only thing that can metabolize fructose. if your diet is too high in fructose, your cells run out of glucose to metabolize before the liver metabolizes the fructose. so your cells start to ignore the insulin message and you have a problem: insulin resistance. insulin resistance encourages cells to grow. like fat cells. ie you get fat. especially around the middle. abdominal fat it's called. all that fat increases your bad cholesterol. which accumulates in your arteries. near your heart. leading to heart attacks. and death. insulin resistance encourages cells to grow. not just fat cells. but normal cells that shouldn't be growing. insulin resistance is a pretty serious enabler of cancer. maybe not causes cancer. but it sorta takes the foot off the brake pedal. yeah, the people who study how sugar affects the body don't eat the stuff. they treat it like it's a toxin. which apparently, it is. course who are we going to believe: some skinny old scientist in a lab coat saying bad, or our taste buds saying yum?