blood fructose is more damaging than blood glucose

Fructose causes seven times as much cell damage as does glucose, because it binds to cellular proteins seven times faster; and it releases 100 times the number of oxygen radicals (such as hydrogen peroxide, which kills everything in sight).

Source: Fructose: the poison index | Robert Lustig | Comment is free | The Guardian

added 2013-10-22T15:06:02Z by anders

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