A reader remarks on fruit juices:
Yep. I don’t think being skinny as a rail as a kid means fruit juice is not bad for a person. It just takes most people many years of gaining a half to a pound of mostly visceral fat per year a while to notice. It might also be that one’s liver is more efficient — spilling less fat to be stored while metabolizing all that fructose — when one is young. I ate the popular low-fat, calorie restricted diet until about 1996, when thanks to my wife, we gradually learned how wrong that was. I didn’t gain significant weight or body fat until my mid-thirties, at the height of the low-fat (replaced by sugar in processed foods) craze. Turns out sugar, especially sugars metabolized as fructose and simple starches which are quickly converted to sugar, are the real problem. And as you posted recently, perhaps the abundance of soy bean oils used for cooking and processing foods. And the recent research showing nanoparticles of titanium dioxide lodging in the pancreas might also cause metabolic syndrome; titanium dioxide being the most common “white” color in the world, and used in everything from aspirin and vitamin pills, to foods, to paint and plastics and beyond. I just can’t imagine how TO2 is getting in our pancreases. /sarcasm.
I’ve been constricting my potato choices recently. I had not heard there were concerns about TO2 in the body, which is appallingly interesting..
