Fructose and Diabetes

Fructose and Diabetes
Diabetics have to worry about their sugar intake because of its effect on insulin.

But not all diabetes is the same. Some diabetes have insufficient insulin, others, usually obese adults, have plenty of the natural hormone but it does a poor job of controlling their blood sugar.

Either way, the thing to be limited in the diet is sucrose, since it enters the bloodstream rapidly and can cause wide fluctuations in the blood sugar levels.

Fructose on the other hand, is absorbed somewhat more slowly from the intestines and makes its way to the liver without causing the pancreas to release insulin.

The liver does convert fructose to glucose, which goes into the bloodstream.

But because the process takes time and is without the ups and downs of sugar levels that may occur with sucrose, doctors have long allowed diabetics patients with ample natural to use fructose as a sweetener.

One of the difficulties doctors already have is getting obese adult diabetics to avoid unnecessary calories.

Because fructose is a carbohydrate with just as many calories as sugar, many doctors see it as more of a problem than a solution, particularly if diabetics think they can load up on it.
Fructose and Diabetes