So, how do I know, it's not the liver cancer craving for non-diet coke?
Drinking sugary drinks, even just 1/day, is linked to high risk of liver cancer
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Re: Drinking sugary drinks, even just 1/day, is linked to high risk of liver cancer
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fructose is most commonly found in fruit. I am still trying to work out if fruit is a healthy option or not. (Nutritional science can't seem to make up their mind on much).
Considering a 33cl can of coke has as much sugar as 4 apples I doubt it. Most fruits actually aren't that sweet: https://www.sugarnutritionresource.org/news-articles/what-su... Fruits are also packed with nutrients/vitamins and are way more satiating than a small can of coke, the later serving 0 purpose in a diet besides temporarily relieving a sugar addiction
They also have fiber, so it's nowhere near the same thing as drinking soda.
Re: Drinking sugary drinks, even just 1/day, is linked to high risk of liver cancer
#13Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [0] is a thing, AIUI it's largely caused by how fructose is handled exceptionally poorly by the liver. Sucrose (sugar) is basically half fructose and half glucose. I often encounter people who don't realize common sugar is half fructose. So even if they understand that a diet "high in fructose" is a risk factor for these things, they don't necessarily appreciate that sugar == fructos…
Fructose is most commonly found in fruit. I am still trying to work out if fruit is a healthy option or not. (Nutritional science can't seem to make up their mind on much).
> Fructose is most commonly found in fruit.
The salient point intended by my comment is that nutritionally, sugar/sucrose is fructose.
The bond linking the glucose and fructose subunits in sucrose is cleaved immediately by an enzyme in the stomach. From that point on, the fructose subunit is no different from fructose found in fruit (or HFCS for that matter) and handled identically by the liver.
Except the volume of refined sugar you find in processed foods/drinks containing sugar generally far exceeds the amount of fructose found in intact fruit, while also lacking any protective soluble fiber.
"Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits" - wikipedia page for sucrose
Re: Drinking sugary drinks, even just 1/day, is linked to high risk of liver cancer
#14Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [0] is a thing, AIUI it's largely caused by how fructose is handled exceptionally poorly by the liver. Sucrose (sugar) is basically half fructose and half glucose. I often encounter people who don't realize common sugar is half fructose. So even if they understand that a diet "high in fructose" is a risk factor for these things, they don't necessarily appreciate that sugar == fructos…
Fructose is most commonly found in fruit. I am still trying to work out if fruit is a healthy option or not. (Nutritional science can't seem to make up their mind on much).
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