The reason, I suppose, that many "experts" talk about sugar or something else that clearly makes no sense, is that they are unfamiliar with the literature, and won't "think outside the box," for whatever reason. I was taught to just look at the evidence, and not to make assumptions about what "experts" say. Here's an important piece of evidence that most of the anti-sugar crowd probably has never read:
THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY Vol. 271, No. 17, Issue of April 26, pp. 9982-9986, 1996 © 1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. Printed in U.S.A.
"The Advanced Glycation End Product, Ne-(Carboxymethyl)lysine, Is a Product of both Lipid Peroxidation and Glycoxidation Reactions*"
QUOTE: "CML is also formed during metal-catalyzed oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in the presence of protein... We also report that CML, heretofore described as a gly-coxidation product, is formed during peroxidation of polyunsat-urated fatty acids (PUFA) in the presence of ribonuclease A (RNase), a protein that contains neither enzymatically nor nonenzymatically attached carbohydrate... oxidation of fatty acid is clearly a more efficient source of CML, despite the fact that the glucose is in solution throughout the course of the experiment, while the PUFA are only progressively solubilized. Further, after 6 days of incubation, a large fraction of the arachidonate was oxidized based on its solubilization in the aqueous phase, while 2% of the glucose is oxidized during this same time period... The observations described above indicate that CML, previ-ously described as a glycoxidation product or AGE, may, in fact, be derived from PUFA during lipid peroxidation reactions. UNQUOTE.
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