{"id":1745,"date":"2011-04-17T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2011-04-17T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T13:57:38","slug":"sweet-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1745","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Taubes, whose book <em><a title=\"Good Calories, Bad Calories\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science\/dp\/1400033462\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1303048114&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\">Good Calories, Bad Calories<\/a><\/em> has been very influential among the paleo community (perhaps best exemplified by former UC Irvine economist <a title=\"Art De Vany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurdevany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art De Vany<\/a>), has an excellent <a title=\"Is Sugar Toxic?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/17\/magazine\/mag-17Sugar-t.html?ref=magazine&amp;pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in this week&#8217;s\u00a0<em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Lustig\u2019s argument, however, is not about the consumption of empty calories \u2014 and biochemists have made the same case previously, though not so publicly. It is that sugar has unique characteristics, specifically in the way the human body metabolizes the fructose in it, that may make it singularly harmful, at least if consumed in sufficient quantities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The phrase Lustig uses when he describes this concept is &#8216;isocaloric but not isometabolic.&#8217; This means we can eat 100 calories of glucose (from a potato or bread or other starch) or 100 calories of sugar (half glucose and half fructose), and they will be metabolized differently and have a different effect on the body. The calories are the same, but the metabolic consequences are quite different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The fructose component of sugar and high-fructose\u00a0corn syrup is metabolized primarily by the liver, while the glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized by every cell in the body. Consuming sugar (fructose and glucose) means more work for the liver than if you consumed the same number of calories of starch (glucose). And if you take that sugar in liquid form \u2014 soda or fruit juices \u2014 the fructose and glucose will hit the liver more quickly than if you consume them, say, in an apple (or several apples, to get what researchers would call the equivalent dose of sugar). The speed with which the liver has to do its work will also affect how it metabolizes the fructose and glucose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Definitely <a title=\"W1OY20\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grandiloquentbloviator.com\/2011\/04\/w1oy20.html\" target=\"_blank\">W1OY20<\/a> material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Taubes, whose book Good Calories, Bad Calories has been very influential among the paleo community (perhaps best exemplified by former UC Irvine economist Art&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1745\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet Science<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-s9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}