Monday, January 21, 2013

Quotations: Lustig on Fructose and Glucose in Nature

Glucose
Despite its absolute necessity for life (see chapter 10), dietary glucose isn’t perfect. When it exists in nature without fructose, it’s called “starch,” and it truly does supply “empty calories,” energy for either storage or burning.
Fructose
Fructose is never found alone in nature. Rather, it is always partnered with its more benign sister molecule, glucose.
Robert Lustig,   Fat Chance
p.154, 156

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