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Roy > wrote:

> On Apr 20, 10:35*am, Doug Freyburger > wrote:
> > James Silverton wrote:
> >
> > > There is a rather sensible article available on the Los Angeles Times
> > > web page:
> >
> > Water is toxic starting at over 10 liters per day. *Water is not toxic
> > below that level. *Sugar works the same way. *In the US the total
> > consumption of sugar has gotten high enough to make a lot of people sick.
>
> ==
> Most people do not have a problem with sugar other than diabetics. The
> human body uses sugar much like your car uses gasoline and can
> manufacture its own from starches and does so quite efficiently and
> automatically with no prompting from the user...you. People have been
> railing against sugar consumption for decades for all the good that it
> does.

The difference, is that some people are now warning about the dangers of
fructose, not just any sugar. It's true that the body uses "sugar" as a
basic source of energy for cells, but it uses glucose, not fructose.
Fructose is not digestible by the GI system, but only by the liver.

That's the claim.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA