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Old Fri, Dec-11-09, 12:17
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Plan: paleo/lowcarb
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Originally Posted by Hutchinson
But I'm sure you accept that your personal consumption of carbs and fructose is NOT TYPICAL.

Of course. I was responding to your question as it was phrased.
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Excessive fructose intake (more than 50 g/d) is probably the cause of Type 2 Diabetes. I don't think most people have any idea that they are consuming anywhere like that amount of fructose daily.
I think you may have misread my post. I'm not planning to increase my consumption of fructose, I'm planning to reduce it by substituting pure dextrose in place of sucrose in those rare applications where I'd want to sweeten something with sugar. Not that I expect to see any real impact on my health because the amount I'm getting is already vanishingly small, but if it's true, as the evidence indicates, that fructose is significantly more dangerous than glucose, we might see lower incidences of disease by replacing the fructose with glucose without requiring people to reduce carbs. It would interesting to see this tested on a large scale.
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