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If you recall from the chapter entitled ‘Simple Sugars vs. Complex Sugars: Understanding the Difference’, you are aware that simple sugars are the best thing you could fuel your body with and in fact your body is in dire need of this exact component in order to energize itself properly.
On the other hand, complex sugars are a tough pill to swallow. They require far more digestive work to break down, resulting in molecular carbon overload, causing acidic after-effects, and excessive work for the pancreas, liver and kidneys. If any sugars are evil, this would surely be the group and I don’t disagree with the villainization of complex sugars. I think the mainstream paranoia about sugars can be appropriately applied to complex sugars (processed sugar additives, grains, breads, dairy, many alcoholic beverages, and starchy foods like potatoes and corn).
However, simple sugars simply are being found guilty by association and are unfortunately being mischaracterized. In fact, these harmful effects, which are commonly attributed to sugars definitely persist when an individual consistently eats foods containing complex sugars, are nowhere to be found when the same individual eats simple sugars.
When it comes to simple sugars, there are actually five types, but out of those five there are two main kinds that are the most ubiquitous: glucose and fructose. Glucose is found in vegetables and fructose is found in fruits. Out of the two types of simple sugars, fructose is clearly superior, even though glucose is still a perfectly healthy and sustainable fuel for the body. There are a couple of reasons for that which are spelled out here.
The simple sugar from glucose (vegetables) actually requires insulin in order to pass through the cell walls, which causes extra work for the pancreas. On the other hand, fructose can enter the cell wall by diffusion requiring little or no insulin whatsoever. Put another way, the body can absorb the energy from fruit while expending very little to no energy to do so. This is one way that fruits are superior to vegetables.
On another note, fruit contains more angstroms of energy compared with vegetables, which can literally be measured. In other words, they are more electrically active and provide a higher level of energy and awareness to the body. We are after all electrically conductive beings — the body can only benefit from this heightened level of electrical power that fruits have, compared with vegetables.
Lastly, fruits are more liquified, lower in starch and cellulose (complex sugars), and fructose is overall easier to digest than glucose from vegetables. So the fact that fruits are higher in sugar as compared with vegetables is not a fair impeachment, because fruits contain multiple qualities making it easier for the body to digest and covert into usable fuel.
Unlike overloading the body with complex sugars — resulting in excessive carbonic wastes and the body working overtime to store the excess molecules as fat storage — with fructose, the body so easily and efficiently will transport the materials from the intestines to the bloodstream and to your cells, which are waiting eagerly to receive the fructose’s energy, fuel, and alkalizing properties. Put simply, your body gets much more ‘miles per gallon’ on a unit of fructose than it does for any other kind of sugar. It’s the most efficient and beneficial fuel for the body by far.
Fructose gets a bad name because of things like ‘high-fructose corn syrup’ which is actually a complex, refined and processed sugar made from corn — this is not only a starchy food containing complex sugars inherently, but one that is GMO (genetically modified)! It’s absolutely correct for high-fructose corn syrup to be so controversial.
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