Reply #8: Actually it has been fruit juice companies that have been promoting that belief.

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Soda isn't healthy but heavy juice consumption isn't healthy either in fact it is dangerous. Fruit sugar (fructose) is not benign. The following well documented article is about the health reprecussions of just regular fructose not high fructose corn syrup.


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Fructose...worsens the lipid profile in the bloodstream.

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...the hormonal response to dietary fructose differs from the response to other simple sugars... fructose does not stimulate the "stop eating" signal as readily as other carbs, then, it's possible that people will consume more calories before they feel full.

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Starting in late 2005, nephrologists at the University of Florida began reporting that fructose led to elevations in uric acid (Nakagawa T, et al. 2005) (Nakagawa T, et al. 2006). Elevations in uric acid can lead to kidney stones. But, these researchers found that high uric acid levels reduced nitric oxide levels, and this, in turn, contributes to insulin resistance and a serious medical condition known as "metabolic syndrome."

Then, in 2007, the Florida nephrologists reported that fructose -- but not glucose -- accelerated the progression of kidney disease (Gersch MS, et al. 2007). However, up to this point, all of this research was conducted in rats.

In January 2008, researchers from Harvard reported that the incidence of kidney stones in both men and women was related to fructose consumption (Taylor EN, et al. 2008).

Translation?: Fructose has detrimental effects on kidney function, which, in turn, can lead to other health problems.

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