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I have loved Agave Nectar after seeing it on Oprah and Dr. OZ telling us this great story about how wonderful this product is and how it is so healthy!  But my other self kicked in and said something was very wrong with this product! Again I was introduced to it by a guy from ultimate Raw Foods and everyone thought it was great but I felt it again. It was not until I got online and found out that
Agave nectar is 70-90% fructose and the rest is glucose. This is a higher
percentage of fructose than any food or drink! Fruits contain much
lower levels of fructose so it is not accurate to compare Agave Nectar
to fruit. The sugar in soft drinks such as regular Coke and Pepsi is
55% fructose and 45% glucose (it is called High Fructose Corn Syrup) so
eating Agave Nectar has more in common with drinking a super fructose
strong Coke than anything that ever existed in nature.
The medical community is very concerned about increasing fructose
consumption as it may cause liver damage as well as obesity. (1, 2)
An important historical side note. Until the mid 80’s most sugar in
the US was sucrose (the white stuff), but then the US Government
subsidized corn from which high fructose corn syrup which is made which lead
to increasing fructose consumption. The increase in fructose
consumption parallels the increase in obesity. No causal link has been
proven but there are many concerns (1, 2). The body does not process
fructose in the same way as normal white sugar (sucrose) which is
another reason to have caution (thus the concern over liver damage.
High fructose products need to be studied and the links to obesity
and hunger need to be better understood. In the meantime I will be
taking the Mayo Clinic’s advice and applying it to Agave Nectar “Avoid or limit foods that contain high-fructose corn syrup”. Folks sugar in all its various forms is bad for us, if we want to eat a
healthier diet or lose weight we know we must eat less sugar but most
of us enjoy eating sweet things so the idea of a healthy, low GI
natural sweet product is very appealing. Here lies the problem, we
truly want to believe the labeling and marketing hype and when we want
to believe something we jump right in and don’t ask questions. Now on check the internet, but more importantly and this one I have learned over the years is listen to yourself it talks and it is always right:)
References
1. Fructose, insulin resistance, and metabolic dyslipidemia Heather Basciano, Lisa Federico, and Khosrow Adeli
Clinical Biochemistry Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine
and Pathobiology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/5
2. Fructose, weight gain, and the insulin resistance syndrome
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 76, No. 5, 911-922,
November 200
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