Re: Avoid sugar; watch this scientific presentation
bronzepig just because God made it doesn't mean its safe to eat. Common sense aside haha not so common sense about poisonous plants. I remember a study some years ago where they followed a herd of wild horses, and monitored their health. They tested for infections, parasites, and whole mess of other goodies that I don't remember.
When they found tape worm inside their intestions they didn't treat to elevate the parasitic infection. Further monitoring found that the infection didn't worsen over time! It actually elevated on its own. What was happening was when the horse contracted the parasite they ate small amounts of poisonous plants to kill the parasite. Pretty neat and not something you learn everyday!
tullius not trying to discredit you but his presentation was based on the excessive amount of consumption of fructos. Not normative. He even said (true or not) that the avarage American consumes 130lbs of this stuff annually. Add this on top the fact that manufacturers remove essential dietary fibers so as to make it more preservative freindly, and you got a problem.
He even gives an example himself where the marathon runner can actually benifit from consumming fructos after the race. Thus replenishing lossed sugars burned by the liver during extreme and prolonged physical activity.
But seeing that Americans live a largely seditary lifestyle this is unlikely in most cases
It is also my impression that he was making a comparison to alcohol consumption as in to many beers. Filtering of both fructos and alcohol is handled by the liver, and LARGE amounts of either is toxic. Fructos unlike glucos isn't used by other organs. Coupled with that fructos is resistant to insilin and the fact you don't know when you have enough and you get a problem.
Those are my initial impressions anyway on the material presented anyway. Most of it was filled with medical jargle that was hard for my simple mind to understand