Whether or not Mercola is being an extremist, there is still scientific proof and truth in refined fructose not being assimilated into the body the way most other sugars are, and certainly not the way a whole food containing fructose and fiber would be. Agave nectar is highly refined and almost all fructose, so no different really than high fructose corn syrup. It's "digested" (or not) in the body more like alcohol than sugar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Start at 40 minutes into this if you only want to see the biochemistry chart part of this presentation.
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biochemistry of refined fructose
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Posted 1 year ago #
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i found the truth about AGAVE, finally. A great explanation. This rings true for me. Read the entire article at the below link.
Mike Adams (naturalnews.com) contacted the manufacturer, who wrote a loooong rebuttal, explaining the 2 different processes being used by 2 differenet manufacturers, the first of which is out of business and which is the one the negative report is based on, even thouugh the good guy was contacted. Not one word of his explanation was contained in the negative report. I will use agave in Elana's recipes.
it appears to me that agave is very successful and is probably competition for the toxins aspartame and Splenda (?), making this an attack by TPTW (The Powers That Were).
Here's the full article: http://www.naturalnews.com/025060_agave_nectar_sugar_sugars.html
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For anyone who has read Dr. Mercola's original article against agave nectar, apparently it upset enough people within the agave industry that he has now written a follow-up.
(He even tested the Madhava brand that Elana recommends.)And here's another link on fructose that was in my e-mail the other day:
http://zrtdocsblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/hypertension-hepatocytes-and-fructose.html
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interesting...
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