Oh boy don't I know it about HFC. Quite a while ago (prior to being diagnosed Type 2) and while I was still allowing myself to have bad things like pop (mostly Coca Cola). my doc noticed weird anomalies in routine blood work(s), in liver function. So then she began questioning my alcohol "habits". And I told her my consumption. She shook her head noting that was not enough to result in what she saw. Then she asked if I consumed pop. I affirmed my consumption of 5-7 cans of coke per day. "Bingo". She explained with HFC so many were only focusing on it's "caloric" content vs real sugar. And yes they're the same. BUT, she explained it's what or how it does in your body. She said it's processed through the liver exactly like alcohol. Unlike sugar. And she said it can cause the same liver issues as being an alcoholic! I have not consumed pop since and work VERY diligently to avoid all sources of HFC and liver is back to being good again. Who knew?
It's amazing to hear.
Many people don't understand or care to understand a lot of these small details.
The liver is an amzing organ that can be treated poorly...and still can recover to a perfectly good organ.
I had the thought many times to start a healthy eating thread and lay out some details on certian things we should avoid and why.....but I never did.
I also am not an expert on the subject but like I stated earlier....I have been doing a lot of research and learned a lot of things that I am glad to have learned....
You taught me something else I wasn't obviously paying attention to with the high fructose supplement.......I had no idea the liver was involved in the process as you described.
After learning about many things I came to a conclusion that the carnivore diet would be an acceptable diet ( also providing a few supplements to make up for loss of certian minerals ect ). It is indeed much harder than one would imagine to just eat meat.....the carnivore diet also wants you to limit the spices or additons to the meat and cooking process......plain meat is boring meat.....
It is easy to just say yeah I can kick back and just crush a pound of bacon for any meal I want........which you could.....but I would highly consider taking lean protiens into the diet as well......or more often than a bacon diet as it has been notedthat bacon is approx. 70% fat.
Don't forget to get lots of your monosaturated fats......this is healthy, how much is too much is something I don't have a set number on.
I find when I eat a diet that is high in meat and veggies and everything else is limited I find the amount I eat is a lot less than when I ate a more... " traditonal " diet........by traditional I mean following the 4 main food groups and what they " tell you " is a healthy diet.
It is either I just don't like what I am eating as much or my body indeed does not need as much as I think it does.
Either way my " diet change " is now becoming my permanent new way to eat full time.
I have changed my diet many times over the years, went to the gym ect ect......but this is a life style change and what is happening now feels like I want to feel......good news is I get to eat a lot of BBQ!!!!!!
I always use to succumb to staying on a very healthy diet....and reverting back to eating junk in my previous years.....I am getting older and maybe wiser???
Real sugar is limited to very rare.....once or twice a month or so to endulge in a dessrt or something.....it still tastes amazing and I have to live right?
Sorry for the ramble.
