Re: Comparing hot dogs to vegetables and natural fruit sugar to HFCS? - edited to delete duplicate info

#38295,
OK. perhaps you would like to explain the reason for the success of the Gerson Anti-Cancer protocol which uses fresh apple juice combined with fresh carrot juice, both of which have a high content of fructose.

Fructose in natural foods vs. fructose in HFCS:

Fructose makes up half of the sucrose molecule, and HFCS contains similar proportions of fructose and glucose as sucrose does (HFCS is 55% fructose). Fructose may be found alone (free) or complexed with glucose as sucrose. In most fruits, much of the fructose is bound to glucose. Fructose entry into blood is slowed when it is in sucrose form, because sucrose must be first split by enzymes in intestinal cells. Fructose molecules in HFCS, however, are free, and therefore absorbed more rapidly. It is thought that the enzymes in the liver responsible for breaking down fructose are overwhelmed by the large loads of fructose delivered by HFCS-sweetened beverages, allowing for large quantities of fructose to be released into the blood.

There are no “safe” sweeteners - whole fruits and root vegetables are the only sweet-tasting foods that are health-promoting. Added Sugar in any form is calorie-dense and deficient in nutrients, and therefore detrimental to health.

References:

1. Teff KL, Grudziak J, Townsend RR, et al. Endocrine and metabolic effects of consuming fructose- and glucose-sweetened beverages with meals in obese men and women: influence of insulin resistance on plasma triglyceride responses. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 May;94(5):1562-9.


Just to illustrate how beneficial eating fruit is, consider this important study. A sixty year study of about 5000 participants found that those who were in the highest quartile of fruit consumption during childhood were found to have a 38 percent lower incidence of all types of cancer as adults.
Reference.............
Maynard M, Gunnell D, Emmett P, et al. Fruit, vegetables and antioxidants in childhood and risk of cancer: tge Boyd Orr cohort. J Epidimiol Community Health 2003;57:219-225.

Your response to DQ..........
"You are implying that humans have benefited from fruits since time immemorial, and they haven't".

Yes we have......................
http://www.livescience.com/history/080429-nutcracker-man.html


Your comment #38295 ........
"Goodness...... my oh my. Don't eat a steamed hot dog with 10 ppm nitrates in it but dig into a plate of butterhead lettuce with 1200 ppm nitrates . Fantastic logic. Didn't even comment on the fact that fructose - from fruit, is just as bad for those with cancer (specifically pancreatic cancer - but how about others) as is high fructose corn syrup and that the cancer actually feeds on it".


Regarding the consumption of Vegetables and Cancer........

"many studies have shown that eating fresh fruits, beans, vegetables, seeds, and nuts reduces the occurrence of cancer. I plotted cancer incidence in 25 countries against unrefined plant food intake and found that as vegetables, beans, and fruit consumption goes up 20% in a population, cancer rates typically drop 20%. But cruciferous vegetables are different; they have been shown to be twice as effective. As cruciferous vegetable intake goes up 20%, in a population, cancer rates drop 40%.
The evidence is now overwhelming that cruciferous vegetables play a major and unique role in the widely recognized protective effects of natural plant foods against cancer--and are the most important players in this arena. The biologically active compounds from raw and conservatively cooked green vegetables enhance the natural defenses of the human body against DNA damage and they even fuel the body's ability to block growth and replication of cells that are already damaged. For those in the know, these foods are the most important nutritional factors to prevent common human cancers".............
http://www.drfuhrman.com/feeds/whatshappening/2009/04/cancer_alert_your_best_...

Chrisb1.