This info is from https://www.anh-usa.org/how-sweet-it-...and-deception/ The whole article is interesting, but this highlight, regarding fructose caught my attention.

Fructose is commonly thought of as “fruit sugar,” but fruit also contains glucose—and fiber, sometimes a great deal of it, not to mention other nutrients. But studies indicate that fructose, processed and stripped of its co-factors, causes metabolic syndrome in animals. The metabolic processes involved in the breakdown of fructose can lead to a buildup of uric acid—which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Fructose can raise blood triglyceride levels, which can trigger atherosclerosis, increases fat deposits around the viscera, and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight people.

As Dr. David G. Williams writes in his Alternatives newsletter,
Cancer cells thrive on sugars, particularly fructose. It has been demonstrated that cancer cells actually metabolize glucose and fructose differently from other cells. While cancer thrives on both, it uses fructose specifically to proliferate. It’s no wonder that cancer has moved quickly up the list of killers in our society since we started adding high-fructose corn syrup to everything from sodas to bread. With such damning and irrefutable research, I still don’t understand why it hasn’t become standard practice to immediately put cancer patients on fructose-free diets to help disrupt cancer growth.

Agave, which is derived from the agave cactus (which also produces tequila), sounds like an ideal alternative, but some health advocates like Dr. Joseph Mercola have some serious concerns about it, and say its acceptance is the result of deceptive marketing.They say that most of the agave sweeteners you find on supermarket shelves are not natural products and are not organic. What is clear is that it is not low-calorie and does not have a low glycemic index. It is 50% to 90% fructose.

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Do be aware that Dementia is a greater danger than cancer.
Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.
• The number of Americans that die each year from Alzheimer’s disease has risen 66 percent since 2000.
• Each year, Alzheimer’s kills more Americans than breast and prostate cancer combined.
• Alzheimer’s is the only disease in the top 10 causes of death in America without a way to prevent it, cure it or slow its progression.
• Death rates for other major diseases, including the number-one cause of death (heart disease), have declined — thanks to the government’s commitment to research

While of course we should be concerned about reducing the risk of cancer I think the prospect of spending a considerable period of time at the end of our lives suffering dementia is far more scary.

Increased fructose intake as a risk factor for dementia.Reemphasizing the Role of Fructose Intake as a Risk Factor for Dementia

JFH Awesome post! And people should realize that table sugar is half fructose, so if you have cancer: no sugar.

So should we really have a couple of helpings of fruit daily? Yes, probably so. The fibers, which are also provided by fruit, cause the fructose to be utilized even slower.

I think the main concern is refined sugar, particularly high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) but there is a huge market for fruit juices and smoothies that are presented as equal to whole fruit. I think anything that helps you consume a lot of calories very quickly is not a good idea.
Our supermarkets now sell orange segments to save the hassle of peeling an orange, ready sliced apples/grapes etc. We really have got to try to slow down the rate at which calories are consumed and encourage the consumer to expend a few calories practising the skills and eye/hand coordination required to get it from table to mouth.

Yup, but as the fruit. Not as the juice.

Ted, in the states all apple juice concentrate comes from china and I keep asking myself, what do they put into it.

The only way you could be certain about the apple content of apple juice is to juice your own apples and frankly I believe you are better off eating whole fruit and not juiced fruit. Anyone whose tried juicing will know how much fruit is required to produce 1 liter of juice and to consume that much fruit as whole fruit would take ages if you had to eat them normally.
The effect of fructose on renal biology and disease

The latest research on AD reckons the insulin levels from the pancreas are not linked to the brain, which generates its own seperate insulin levels, which are linked to AD. Type 3 diabetes?

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4315609.stm

The other reeason to juice your own apples would be to get LIVE enzymes also.

But my point is that eating the apple would provide the same enzymes and you would be using your own energy, muscles and digestive system to reduce the apple to juice.
Using a machine and producing fibre waste that you are not going to consume creates wasted energy. Sure if you juice 3 fresh apples for me and offer it to me I will drink it and enjoy it BUT I think it would be better for my health (though probably not as tasty) to have eaten those whole apples myself and exercise my jaws, had an impact on my oral health, produced a greater fibre intake to the gut, provided more substance for friendly gut flora to thrive on and generally have a better impact on my whole digestive system. I also think the "hit" on blood glucose produced from the 3 apples juiced is likely, if repeated regularly during the day (I do like the idea of you juicing fresh apples for me throughout the day and I know your a very kind person) this eventually speeds up the development of metabolic syndrome.

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I never really understood why so many people would prefer juice to the original substance. Although, once upon a time I help some people with an apple press. We pressed a lot of apples, worms, wasps and all. Remarkably good apple juice and great laxative. Then comes the cider. Now I understand.

But I don't get all those bottled juices with that HFCS to poison them.

Fructose is a poison, as explained here by Robert H. Lustig M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, University of California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

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