Health & Fitness
What is Fructose?
By Joan McDaniel
I am an LPN who ate my way back to health. Read my continuing story about researching a different kind of nutrition. I used food as my medicine. The doctors could not help. We all need to start caring for our own health and what we eat I believe we are seeing the end of modern medicine as we know it.
What is Fructose?
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Fructose has been deemed to be healthy because it comes from fruit. It exists as a natural part of fruit. If you only ate one or two pieces of fruit a day you would be ok but Fructose is also being used as a food additive called High Fructose Corn Syrup. Americans are over consuming HFCS, at an alarming rate causing many serious ramifications besides Obesity.
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A new UCLA study has just shown that a steady diet high in fructose can damage your memory and learning. The study was published in the Journal of Physiology.
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