Hello, this is Monica Reinagle.

Welcome to the Nutrition Divas Quick and Dirty Tips for eating well and feeling fabulous.

The other day, some of us were having a conversation about fruit on the Nutrition Diva

Facebook page and a reader posted a list of scary statements about fructose anxiously demanding to know whether or not they were accurate.

His list included things like this.

You can eat as much fructose as you want, but you'll never feel full.

In fact, you'll feel hungrier. And fructose is converted directly into fatty

acids in the liver. And fructose leads to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

And this might have been my favorite one.

Eating fructose is like eating invisible fat because it slips past the body's defenses, therefore we need to avoid eating fruit during weight loss.

Now apparently these so-called facts were gleaned from a book written by a television personality

associated with a popular weight loss reality show.

According to her Wikipedia entry, this individual has no formal education, training, or credentials in nutrition,

biochemistry, or health sciences.

Her degree is in media and communications,

which is perfect because she has a career in television.

Unfortunately, she's also written a number of books on weight loss and acts as a weight loss coach

on television.

I say unfortunately because she appears to be spreading a lot of misinformation,

foe science, and needless anxiety.

And when it comes to fructose, there's plenty of that to go around already.

So are these charges against fructose true?

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