On: Fructose, processed food, NAFLD, and changing the food system

Episode: 14

Date: September 2018

Background: endicronologist.

Key Subjects:

• Issues with sugar:
  • Contributes to inflammation, gout, high blood pressure, fatty liver, etc. (see “Fructose and Glucose” write-up).
• Issues with processed food:
  • It’s not the added sugar you know, it’s the added sugar you don’t know.
  • Every diet out there that works, works because it is based on all real food.
• Focus on real food:
  • Fibers can help prevent some of the absorption of fructose.
    • By lining part of the intestine.
    • Fructose doesn’t get absorbed, gets digested by the gut bacteria instead.
  • Need both soluble and non-soluble fibers: real food.
    • Fiber bars (only soluble fibers) don’t work.
• End subsidies that seem to make processed foods artificially cheaper than real food.