Three Surgeon Generals and the Joint Chief of Staff consider obesity a threat to National Security, because at least 9 million young adults (27% of all Americans aged 17-24 in 2005) were too overweight to serve in the military.
In his 12 April 2012 UCTV Prime series: “The Skinny on Obesity" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 23591], Dr. Lustig explains how our bodies metabolize sugar and exposes the consequence of the over abundance of sugar in today's processed convenience foods. His research reveals that sugar is metabolised in the same way as alcohol or other toxins, causing damage to the liver and other organs. http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity/
Using the Food and Agriculture Organization data base and linking it to the the International Diabetes Federation data base, country by country, Dr. Lustig’s research found that calories from sugar are the only ones that correlate with the increase in obesity related diseases. His research also proved that the dogma of “a calorie is a calorie” asserted by dieticians and food manufacturers is all wrong.
Clinical nutritionists have known for decades that all calories are NOT equal. In fact, refined sugar is 50 times more potent than other calories in increasing diabetes rates world wide.
In nature, fat and carbohydrates/sweets are never found together in the same food. Sugar, which is highly refined, is the only food that is metabolized as both a fat and carbohydrate. When sugar and other refined carbohydrates are consumed, 80% of the glucose is is metabolized by all the organs in the body, which convert it into glycogen until it is replete. Glycogen provides energy. What is not utilized, converts into fat. Only 20% of glucose is metabolized by the liver.
However, fructose can only be metabolized in the liver, because only the liver has the transporter for fructose. Thus, all the fructose one consumes in junk food and