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An advocacy group called Citizens for Health has petitioned the FDA to require food manufacturers

to list the amount of fructose in foods.

Nutrition Facts labels already tell you how much sugar is in a food,

but these folks want you to know how much of that is fructose and how much is other sugars such as glucose. Their argument

mirrors the widely held belief that fructose is somehow uniquely to blame for

the obesity epidemic and all the related health crises.

As our fructose intake has climbed in recent years,

so have rates of obesity and diabetes.

And in the lab, researchers have confirmed that feeding animals high levels of fructose

makes them fat and sick.

If this particular form of sugar is particularly dangerous.

Shouldn't it be disclosed on the label the way the amount of trans fats,

a particularly harmful form of fat, is shown separate from the amount of total fat?

When you study nutritional biochemistry,

you learn that different sugars

have different metabolic pathways, or fates,

as they're sometimes called in the textbook.

Unlike other sugars, which are taken up by the bloodstream and used by cells

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