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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-facts-on-fructose/">The Facts on Fructose</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted October 30, 2007 at 03:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">We all know that food labels can be misleading, but what about fructose instead of plain old sugar on a sports drink ingredient list? Is fructose a “healthier” version of the sweet stuff? Nope - Fructose is not better for you than table sugar, and drinks that contain lots of fructose can cause intestinal gas. Fructose is a single sugar molecule, while granulated white table sugar is called sucrose and is made up of two single sugars, glucose and fructose bound together. When table sugar reaches your intestines, the double table sugar, sucrose, is immediately split into its single sugars, glucose and fructose. Almost all of the glucose is absorbed immediately into your bloodstream. In the presence of glucose in your intestines, most of the fructose is also converted to glucose, which is rapidly absorbed into…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-facts-on-fructose/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-facts-on-fructose/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-facts-on-fructose/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/the-facts-on-fructose/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/diet-myths/">diet-myths</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>