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Fructose may be the ultimate driver of obesity (bigthink.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

• Hypotheses explain the rapid rise in obesity over recent decades.

• Energy balance: Weight gain due to consuming more calories.

• Carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis: Excess carbohydrate intake stimulates the insulin response.

• Effect of Protein: Eating insufficient protein causes constant hunger.

• New hypothesis: sugar, especially fructose, is to blame for obesity.

• Fructose suppresses mitochondrial function, causing hunger and thirst.

• In the long term, regular exposure to fructose can damage mitochondria.

• Corn syrup, honey and cane sugar are common sources of fructose.

• Fruits are still healthy, but they contain less fructose than juices or candies.

[–] ikidd 1 points 10 months ago

Excess carbohydrate intake stimulates the insulin response.

This. This right here is where the obesity epidemic comes from. People eat way, way more carbs than any time in history, and we wonder why everyone is fat. Carbs do not induce a satiation mechanism like fats, the opposite in fact. Yet it's fats that get demonized because of the shit science that came of the Seven Countries study.