A Fatty Diet Slows Down Metabolism Even Without Sugar Via Fructose!
That sugar isn’t healthy is something almost everyone knows today, even if they don’t really care or restrict themselves. But that sugar could be harmful even without sugar in food? That sounds strange, doesn’t it? Do we have evidence, studies, results? Yes, I think we do. I found a nice PhD dissertation that tries to answer exactly this question. And the results are very interesting. I’ll try to summarize them briefly here. In discussions on X, I came across a great experimenter in the field of nutrition. He runs his blog at exfatloss.com . Recently, he raised an interesting point about the low-carb keto diet . For some people, it simply doesn’t work, and no one knows why. He observed this himself and shares his findings with others on his blog. The idea came to him while listening to lectures by Rick Johnson, M.D., on fructose research. Specifically, that the body produces fructose on its own, for example, with too much salty food and a lack of water, or when consuming food containin...