On Apr 20, 11:01*am, Dan Abel > wrote:
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> > On Apr 20, 10:35*am, Doug Freyburger > wrote:
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> > > > There is a rather sensible article available on the Los Angeles Times
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> > > 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.
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> > 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
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> 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.
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> That's the claim.
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> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
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Alarmists beating their own drum mostly.
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