Fructose triggers an unwanted disease

Fructose is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) that is contained in many fruit - fruit that is ripe.
Monosaccharides are carbohydrates in the form of simple sugars. As disaccharides, monosaccharides taste sweet, water soluble, and crystalline.

Monosaccharides are classified by the number of carbon atoms they contain (trioses, tetrosa, pentose, hexose, and heptose) and active group, which can be aldehyde or ketone. These are then combined, eg aldohexoses and ketotrioses.

Further, each carbon atom that binds the hydroxyl group (except at both ends) are optically active, resulting in several different carbohydrates although essentially the same structure. For example, galactose is aldohexoses, but has different properties from glucose because the atoms are arranged differently.

Examples are:

    * Trioses: glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone
    * Tetrosa: eritrosa
    * Pentoses: lyxose, ribose, and deoxyribose
    * Hexoses: idosa, glucose, fructose, and galactose
    * Heptose:


Researchers found the beverages and foods containing fructose such as soft drinks and junk food lead to high blood pressure, stress, weight gain and diabetes, especially in men.

"These findings suggest that excessive levels of fructose may be an epidemic of obesity and diabetes," said Dr. Richard Johnson of the University of Colorado-Denver, as quoted by Reuters.

Fructose is a simple sugar with the highest level of sweetness but low calories. When compared with sugar sucrose, fructose is much sweeter and should be able to reduce the intake of excess calories in the body.

But it was the use of fructose instead trigger an unwanted disease. Fructose is found in many drinks soft drinks and junk food also. Even in experiments using rats, fructose proven to increase body weight more quickly than those who do not eat them.

Fructose is widely used by the food industry because it has some advantages over sucrose or sugar. But the side effects of fructose could actually be reduced by taking the drug allopurinol, the medication to relieve gout by reducing the level of acid in one's urine.

Johnson and colleagues of Mateo Orfila Hospital in Spain studied 74 men who were given 200 grams of fructose per day. Half of the male respondents were given the drug allopurinol.

After two months, it turns out they are not given the drug allopurinol metabolism disorder such as increased blood pressure, distended stomach and cholesterol levels are difficult to detect.

Fructose was sparked a sense of 'addiction', which makes a person want a sweet drink continuously. This is evident in rats fed fructose drinks. "They drink very quickly and wanted to add an unlimited amount," said Mariana Morris of Wright State University, Ohio.

This is happening at the same mice analogous to those seen in humans. Fructose is also found to increase stress hormones in rats. "The same will happen in humans, especially if you eat them at night," said Morris.

uUntuk it, the American Heart Association recommends the use of cane sugar or sucrose and fructose drink compared to a certain limit but trigger the disease. For a woman should not consume more than 100 calories or 6 teaspoons (25 grams), while men are not more than 150 calories or 9 teaspoons (37.5 grams) per day. Hopefully there are benefits.