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Health & Fitness

What is Fructose?

By Joan McDaniel  

I am an LPN who ate my way back to health. Read my continuing story about researching a different kind of nutrition. I used food as my medicine. The doctors could not help. We all need to start caring for our own health and what we eat I believe we are seeing the end of modern medicine as we know it.      

Fructose has been deemed to be healthy because it comes from fruit.  It exists as a natural part of fruit.  If you only ate one or two pieces of fruit a day you would be ok but Fructose is also being used as a food additive called High Fructose Corn Syrup.  Americans are over consuming HFCS, at an alarming rate causing many serious ramifications besides Obesity.

A new UCLA study has just shown that a steady diet high in fructose can damage your memory and learning. The study was published in the Journal of Physiology.

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