By Oana Pop ,
Project Weight Loss Editor
August 04, 2008A researcher from UT Southwestern Medical Center said that dieters on low – carb diets lose weight because they reduce the intake of fructose, a sugar type which is rapidly assimilated by the body and transformed into fat.
People should take in consideration what type of sugar they eat and find the appropriate one for their body. The right type of carbs a person eats it`s just as important in controlling your weight as the number of calories a person eats, according to Dr. Elisabeth Parks.
Health guidelines inform that limiting the amount of processed carbohydrates, many of which are high on fructose corn syrup, may help prevention of weight gain and the news about fructose support this advice.
"Our study shows for the first time the surprising speed with which humans make body fat from fructose," Dr. Parks said. Our metabolism reacts differently at fructose, glucose and sucrose and each one of these sugar types can be made into triglycerides.
Triglycerides are a form of body fat which once installed in the process of synthesis can`t be slowed down from turning into fat. The study which exemplifies the upper statements took place with the help of six individuals which performed three tests.
In one test, the breakfast drink was made 100 percent only of glucose. In the second one they had to drink syrup made of 50 percent glucose and the other half fructose. In the third test the drink was made of a 25 percent of glucose and 75 percent of fructose.
"There are lots of people out there who want to demonize fructose as the cause of the obesity epidemic. I think it may be a contributor, but it's not the only problem. Americans are eating too many calories for their activity level. We're overeating fat, we're overeating protein; and we're over eating all sugars,” Dr. Parks said.
Therefore, people who are trying to lose weight shouldn`t eliminate fruits, but that limiting processed foods having the type of sugar needed may surely help.
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