A key component of fruit juice may be behind our current obesity epidemic. This common sugar has been shown to flick a metabolic switch in our bodies that increases our hunger, thirst and fat accumulation, as well as insulin resistance, …
Article – Unifying the Different Theories on how Diet Causes Hypertension
While most people think that poor diet is ultimately the cause of the obesity and diabetes epidemics, there remains great debate on what is the critical part of the diet that is responsible. Is it just too many calories in …
Article – Fructose Lurks Within the Obesity Epidemic
It tells about the book Nature Wants Us to Be Fat and how obesity was meant to aid survival but today we are over-activating this “survival switch” to become fat and diabetic. The primary problem is fructose, a sugar that …
Article – Newsweek – Scientists Reveal a ‘Health’ Food That Leads to Weight Gain
“Most of the fructose we have comes from high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar and added sugar, which are made of glucose and fructose,” Richard Johnson, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Newsweek. …
Podcast – The Effect of Fructose on Brain Health with Cynthia Thurlow
The Effect of Fructose on Brain Health with Cynthia Thurlow on her Everyday Wellness Podcast. Sugar (which contains fructose) increases the risk for both behavioral conditions (such as ADHD and bipolar disease) as well as dementia. Learn why! Listen to …
Paper – The fructose survival hypothesis for obesity
It is finally out! For those of you who want to read the deep science behind the fructose story, the overall fructose survival hypothesis has now been published in the Royal Society of Medicine’s journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal …
Podcast – Fructose and Pregnancy and Perinatal Issues
This is a discussion I had with pediatrician Christopher Magryta, who is a leading authority on nutrition in children. Here we discuss the perils associated with drinking soft drinks during pregnancy. We also discuss the fructose paradox, as the fetus …
Video – A Darker Side to Uric Acid
Discussions with Sara Banta on how uric acid may have a role in obesity and metabolic syndrome. Uric acid is not just the cause of gout, it is intricately linked with the processes involved in weight gain, fat accumulation and …
Podcast – Sandy K Nutrition – Episode 170 – The Toxic Truth About Sugar & Disease with Dr. Richard Johnson
A podcast with Sandy Kruse on fructose, and especially its role in alcoholism. Listen to the podcast here.