"W" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> "W" > wrote in message
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>> > "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> >> Well. thankfully I don't have to deal with that stuff. I don't like
> much
>> > in
>> >> the way of fruit and I dislike frozen things so I wouldn't eat
> popsicles
>> > of
>> >> any kind. I do know that if you extract one kind of sugar and use it
>> >> without the others to balance it out, problems can occur. Fructose
> taken
>> >> alone is particularly bad for diabetes. Can cause heart problems.
>> >
>> > You are right. Fructose is now shown by very good research to highly
>> > correlate to high triglycerides, high LDL, and generally higher lipid
>> > parameters. BUT, this is not happening for people who eat some fruit
> and
>> > end up getting 30 to 60 grams of fructose per day! At those low
> levels,
>> > lipid parameters do not significantly change. The people at risk are
> the
>> > ones drinking four sodas loaded with high fructose corn syrup and
>> > eating
>> > five or more servings of processed foods that are loaded with extra
> sugar
>> > or
>> > high fructose corn syrup. If you are eating 120+ grams of fructose per
>> > day,
>> > you are not doing yourself any favors for sure!
>>
>> When you eat a piece of fruit, you are getting a mix of sugars that
> balance
>> each other out. I don't know about the HFCS since it is not something I
>> consume.
>
> I get the feeling that you did not see the sugar content of blackberries,
> which I published for you in an earlier reply:
>
> Sucrose 101mg
> Glucose 3326mg
> Fructose 3456mg
>
> This is in a one cup serving of blackberries, and I am ignoring the small
> amounts of maltose and galactose just to make it easier to describe.
>
> These are roughly 6,883 mg of sugars in one cup of blackberries.
> 101/6883
> ~= 1.5% So the disaccharide sucrose is less than 2% of the "mix of
> sugars" in the fruit.
>
> Glucose and fructose are the monosaccharides, and those make up more than
> 98% of the "mix of sugars" in the fruit.
>
> Do you understand that I am trying to maximize the monosaccharides in the
> "mix of sugars" and trying to minimize the disaccharides? If yes, do you
> now see how the above "mix of sugars" helps to accomplish the stated goal?

I'm sorry. None of this really matters to me as I don't have the problems
that you have and I don't even like fruit. I eat the occasional apple,
pear, half a grapefruit or perhaps a grape or two. Once in a great while I
might have a cherry or strawberry. The last time I ate any blackberries was
when I was pregnant and only because I was required to eat fruit daily.
Believe me when I say that I didn't enjoy them. I realize that fruit is
something that most people like. I'm not most people.

I'm sorry that you have medical problems but I really can't help you there.