A research conducted in California has highlighted the following:

Sucrose is commonly known as table sugar, and is obtained from sugar cane or sugar beets. When sucrose is consumed, the enzyme beta-fructosidase separates sucrose into its individual sugar units of glucose and fructose. Both sugars are taken up by their specific transport mechanisms. The body responds to the glucose content of the meal in its usual manner; however, fructose uptake occurs at the same time. The body will use glucose as its main energy source and the excess energy from fructose, if not needed, will be poured into fat synthesis, which is stimulated by the insulin released in response to glucose.

FRUCTOSE IS THE CULPRIT….Side effects of Fructose;

After eating fructose, 100percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver has to break down only 20percent. Every cell in your body including your brain utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is “burned up” immediately after you consume it. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (The damaging form of cholesterol) and triglycerides, which gets stored as fat. The fatty acids created during the fructose metabolism accumulate as fat droplets in your liver and skeletal muscle tissues, causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Insulin resistance progresses to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes. Fructose is the most lipophilic carbohydrate. In other words, fructose converts to glycerol (G-3-P), which is directly used to turn FFA have, the more fat you store. Glucose does not do this. When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than 1 calorie is stored as a fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat. Consuming fructose essentially consuming fat. The metabolism of fructose by your liver creates a long list of waste products and toxins, including a large amount of uric acid, which drives up blood pressure and causes gout. Glucose suppresses the hunger hormone ghrelin and stimulates leptin, which suppresses your appetite. Fructose has no effect on ghrelin and interferes with your brain’s communication with leptin, resulting in overeating.

If anyone tries to tell you “sugar is sugar” they are way behind the times. As you can see, there are major differences in how your body processes fructose and glucose. The bottom line is; fructose leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome- not to mention the long list of chronic diseases that directly result.