Here is an excerpt from that article in TIME.
“The fructose-drinking volunteers also were not as sensitive to insulin, the hormone released by the pancreas to capture and break down glucose in the blood and store it as fat. Insulin insensitivity is one of the first signs of diabetes.”

It doesn’t stop there, In the process of trying to break down all these sugars a multitude of things are happening to you. Your ability to control your apetite is compromised by the inaccurate release of Leptin a hormone that controls hunger. It directly affects the part of your brain the satiety center and between the two you never really feel satisified once you start taking in your calories with high sugared products. Another very important item to note is that whenever we take in a lot of sugar we “get a sugar high”. For a short time you feel good and then you crash. Your body wants to continue that high it’s an addiction thats why one can of soda is not enough. I’ve talked to people who drink six cans a day. There’s more and more.

The American consumer doesn’t have a clue how bad it really is and the medical community can only cite specific studies, such as the one mentioned in TIME.

I explained the differences of sugars to a friend this past weekend.
If I take my right hand and try to overlap my left or clone it, I can’t.
It’s a mirror image of each other but not the same. With sugars it’s the sterochemistry that matters and how they react specifically with other compounds and the resulting complex that is formed is the critical thing. Not that they are just all called sugars.

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take care
Tony

Childhood obesity in our country is no joke. Today the food available to us is certainly not the food that was available 50 years ago. This is why it is so incredibly important to educate ourselves and, most importantly, our children, on how to take care of ourselves and eat properly. If we don’t, we can EXPECT illness and disease later on in life. Well, I could go on and on!

Most of the information I have read on sugar and its impact on the body have been from medical and nutrition journals, magazines and various sections of nutrition books. I would, however, recommend starting with this book, “Suicide By Sugar: A Startling Look at Our #1 National Addiction”, by Nancy Appleton. It has gotten good reviews and it is on my list of books to read as well.

Currently, Michelle Obama is making a campaign against childhood obesity in this country. All of our foods are so filled with white refined sugars, transfats, sodium and other chemical #5’s and sprayed down with detrimental pesticides, how and what can we eat at all? Never mind the fact that putting your healthy foods in plastic containers can disrupt your hormones in your middle age.

I would love your book recommendations about this. Its a great choice but very hard to choose. Yeah, we are sweeties!