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Post #549280 by JuliaKhanam on Fri, Aug 20, 2010 3:37 AM

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You might like to re-think your preferences with regard to sweeteners. Although the juice of the agave cactus is about half glucose and half fructose as it comes from the plant, it is refined to remove the glucose. β€œ β€˜It's almost all fructose, highly processed sugar with great marketing,’ said Dr. Ingrid Kohlstadt, fellow of the American College of Nutrition and associate faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.” However, the dangers of fructose are well known, and agave nectar is almost 100% fructose. Fructose raises triglycerides, promotes belly fat, and contributes to fatty liver, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. It increases the formation of glycation end-products, which speed up the aging process.


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[ Edited by: JuliaKhanam 2010-08-23 07:39 ]