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Old Sun, Aug-25-02, 20:16
west_on_46 west_on_46 is offline
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Anything containing fructose is not a good choice. High fructose corn syrup is probably at the top of the list. Table sugar is usually sucrose, which is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose - not a good idea either.

I have, however, seen a paper showing that sucrose produced a very high rate of glycogen deposition in the muscles, a bit higher than pure glucose even. Fructose was only 50% as good. That study did not look at replenishing of glycogen deposits in the liver at all though. The makers of the many sports drinks will tell you that reglycogenating the liver is a good thing; they are partially right when talking about endurance sports - when glycogen in the liver keeps blood glucose steady. Of course they aren't concerned with ketogenic diets.
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