Which sugar is bad? Is fructose as bad as glucose?
Here’s a recent study that found that sucrose and fructose double liver fat production when compared to glucose. Both need more “processing” than glucose making them more expensive. My theory is that the body compensates for this by trying to increase fat stored. The study found that this happens even with moderate amounts of sugar.
https://scitechdaily.com/even-moderate-amounts-of-added-suga...
>Ninety-four healthy young men took part in the study. Every day for a period of seven weeks, they consumed a drink sweetened with different types of sugar, while the control group did not. The drinks contained either fructose, glucose or sucrose (table sugar which is a combination of fructose and glucose). The researchers then used tracers (labeled substances that can be traced as they move through the body) to analyze the effect of sugary drinks on lipid metabolism.
>Fructose and sucrose double fat production beyond food intake
Of course it does. Sucrose is 50/50 fructose/glucose and fructose uses the liver as the metabolic pathway but glucose does not.
Pretty clueless that the linked article tries to correlate these results with type 2 diabetes, when insulin resistance is caused by glucose intake. The only correlation there is that if you're consuming a lot of fructose, you're probably consuming a lot of glucose, too.
Fructose isn’t as bad from that perspective because it has to be metabolized by the liver first. But with that in mind, consuming too much fructose can lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease which is basically cirrhosis but from other causes.