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Article: Fructose Causes Liver Damage

24% caloric intake as fructose... Come on.

Its sad that people will read this and think they need to stop eating things they enjoy, when in reality, they are eating a fairly balanced diet. There's nothing balanced about the diet in that study.
 
blacklac said:
24% caloric intake as fructose... Come on.

Its sad that people will read this and think they need to stop eating things they enjoy, when in reality, they are eating a fairly balanced diet. There's nothing balanced about the diet in that study.
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Also note many people eat liver cleansing foods like onions.
 
This isn't a very good study. Since the sources of protein and fat were different as well, all they really can conclude is one diet caused liver damage while the other didn't. Heck, you could just as easily title this article as "Pork Causes Liver Damage" or "Butter Causes Liver Damage".

If you are going to assess the effects of fructose in a diet, change ONLY fructose between the diets. They even admit this by saying they are doing another study which assesses dextrose vs fructose...which is the study they should have done to start with. I'm surprised this got published.
 
Both diets had the same amount of fat, carbohydrate and protein, but the sources were different, Kavanagh said. The high-fructose group's diet was made from flour, butter, pork fat, eggs and fructose (the main ingredient in corn syrup), similar to what many people eat, while the control group's diet was made from healthy complex carbohydrates and soy protein.
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This is dumb. All they need to do was replace the fructose in the first diet with dextrose.

Are these researchers really that ignorant or just trying to misrepresent. Not sure which is worse.
 
I actually think is a good 1st step in understanding the health risks of fructose enriched, corn based products. There is a major obesity and health crisis currently that needs to be understood, and when most of the 'affordable foods' contain high levels of these ingredients we should be studying their affects. Folks on this board are generally well educated about nutrition and informed about what they put into their body. That's much less true for the average Joe. My $.02...
 
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