The B1G Piece wrote:Also, Zuckerberg is going to have a lot of money.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Srsly... They metabolize differently. Sugar (sucrose) is equal parts fructose and glucose, and each molecule of fructose and glucose are bound together (therefore requiring an additional metabolic "step" before the body can do anything with it). HFCS has a higher percentage of fructose than glucose (thus the "high" in "high fructose corn syrup"), and the fructose molecules in HFCS are unbound (gets immediately absorbed without that additional metabolic "step"). Fructose mostly metabolizes to fat, glucose to energy with the excess stored as glycogen (a carbohydrate that converts back to glucose when needed).

Funny thing is, when they make HFCS, the syrup from the corn starch is almost all glucose. They throw in enzymes and stuff to turn much of the glucose into fructose because fructose is more water soluable (easer to use in making soft drinks, processed foods, etc.).

"The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," says Meira Field, PhD, a research chemist at United States Department of Agriculture, "but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high-fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic."[60] While a few other tissues (e.g., sperm cells[61] and some intestinal cells) do use fructose directly, fructose is almost entirely metabolized in the liver.[60]

"When fructose reaches the liver," says Dr. William J. Whelan, a biochemist at the University of Miami School of Medicine, "the liver goes bananas and stops everything else to metabolize the fructose." Eating fructose instead of glucose results in lower circulating insulin and leptin levels, and higher ghrelin levels after the meal.[62] Since leptin and insulin decrease appetite and ghrelin increases appetite, some researchers suspect that eating large amounts of fructose increases the likelihood of weight gain.[63]

Excessive fructose consumption is also believed to contribute to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.[64]

jamiethekiller wrote:grapefruits suck

td11 wrote:mary died from diabetes at 15

drsmooth wrote:

The B1G Piece wrote:Also, Zuckerberg is going to have a lot of money.

is there any way to determine if he's ever made $1 off of me?

because if so I want it back