Are table sugar and high fructose corn syrup just empty calories or can they be actively harmful?
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This underscores why a whole foods, plant-based diet is preferable to a plant-based diet that includes processed junk.
I’ve touched on the harm of refined sugars before in:
• Flesh and Fructose (
• Are Sugary Foods Addictive? (
• Mercury in Corn Syrup? (
• Dietary Guidelines: Pushback from the Sugar, Salt, and Meat Industries (
For healthful alternatives in baking, see The Healthiest Sweetener ( and for beverages, Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant (
But what about the fructose in fruit? How much fruit is too much? I’ll be addressing these questions in a series of videos coming soon. And I’ll also be doing more videos on the burgeoning epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and what we can do about it.
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