I just finally got around to watching this lecture. To be perfectly honest, I'm amazed that it has taken 30 years for someone, let alone a doctor, to explain why sugar and specifically fructose is bad for your health. All the pathways listed are required to be known by undergraduate nutrition majors. I'm an exercise biology major and have taken several biochem classes on top of one upper division nutrition class and I understood exactly where he was going. Nobody put this together before? Apparently people did as the lecturer talks about Pure, White and Deadly. I don't believe he had the evidence that we now do though. Why does the FDA continue to ignore these things?
I completely agree with what he says. My nutrition lecturer was actually doing research on this and found that fructose was terrible for people and that they gained weight, had health problems, etc much more readily than others. If you mix this along with what The Zone Diet author Barry Sears states, then the following is what is required for optimal health: high fiber, no refined sugar, no refined vegetable oils, balance of omega-3s and omega-6s. To be perfectly honest, if I could afford it, I would probably go paleolithic. However, watching this lecture and recently watching Dr. Sears talk on inflammation and the Zone, I feel it is in my best interests to start making some changes. Perhaps the first step is limiting my sweets. Perhaps a small treat once a week reduced to once every two weeks would do. I don't know, but what I'm saying is that if you wanna be healthy and perform well, popular nutrition will not really be helping you.
