{"id":1733,"date":"2010-05-22T07:48:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2010-05-22T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:48:26","slug":"weekend-bonus-hypertension-and-fructose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/22\/weekend-bonus-hypertension-and-fructose\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Bonus: Hypertension and Fructose"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader posted a link to this slide show and lecture.\u00a0 There’s a\u00a0 LOT of biochemistry in the lecture and it’s 49 minutes long, so if you decide to watch it, congratulations — but you may want to grab a cup of coffee first.<\/p>\n

Uric Acid, Fructose and Hypertension<\/a><\/strong><\/object><\/div>\n
View more webinars<\/a> from Joel Topf<\/a>.<\/div>\n

The brief synopsis: \u00a0there’s good scientific evidence that hypertension is largely\u00a0the result of too much uric acid, and elevated uric acid is largely caused by (drum roll, please<\/em>) … TOO MUCH FRUCTOSE!\u00a0<\/p>\n

So let’s think about this … the FDA is demanding that the food industry reformulate their recipes (at no small expense) to drastically reduce the sodium content.\u00a0 This is in spite of several studies in which\u00a0drastically reducing sodium showed little effect on blood pressure.\u00a0 And of course, it’s likely that people will\u00a0respond to low-sodium foods by adding\u00a0salt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the federal government continues to subsidize\u00a0corn, just in case the Great Depression ever comes back.\u00a0 Thanks to those subsidies, high-fructose corn syrup is dirt cheap, which is why it’s\u00a0in a gazillion food products and also\u00a0why our consumption of fructose has skyrocketed since 1970.\u00a0 If the federal government really wanted to encourage better health, they could stop demanding that the food industry produce low-sodium foods and drop the corn subsidies instead … but that won’t happen because it would mean saving taxpayer dollars instead of spending them.<\/p>\n

@#$%ing brilliant …<\/p>\n

Hat tip to Gwen for the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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