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Excessive sugar intake linked with unhealthy fat deposits

https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Pr...hy-fat-deposits

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Sugar consumption is linked with larger fat deposits around the heart and in the abdomen, which are risky for health. That’s the finding of a study published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

“When we consume too much sugar the excess is converted to fat and stored,” said study author Ms. So Yun Yi, a PhD student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. “This fat tissue located around the heart and in the abdomen releases chemicals into the body which can be harmful to health. Our results support limiting added sugar intake.”

Excess sugar consumption is a worldwide problem. The six countries with the highest sales of sugary drinks per capita are Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, the US, and Saudi Arabia. The demand for sugar is expected to increase in Asia, Africa, and Russia.
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THIS must be why such placement of excess fat is connected to metabolic syndrome. Powerful correlation effect.
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Agreed. If you wanted to give a healthy person metabolic syndrome rapidly, I'd start with excess sugar, manufactured oils, and lots of refined flour. There are a lot of recipes and processed foods with these primary ingredients.
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They never say "Unhealthy Sugar". I'm not so sure that visceral fat is all that unhealthy - in and of itself. The circumstances that generate it are the problem. In a metabolically disregulated state the body is just doing what it has to in order to cope with fructose intake at levels beyond what it was ever designed to handle. When the diet is such that metabolic health is restored are those "unhealthy" fatty deposits still a cause for concern? Well, even if they are the body gets right at the job of burning it away. One of the first health markers that I saw improve to a healthy state after going low carb was my elevated ALT/AST due to fatty liver & inflammation. I still weighed 375 pounds and had loads of visceral fat.

My 'beef' with the wording of this is that the fat still sounds like the bad guy. It implies that sugar in moderation won't cause the fat to do it's unhealthy thing. While that is technically true, the kind of moderation required to achieve metabolic health is not what the typical reader has in mind and the wording of this article gives no clue. The real bad guy is the sugar - particularly the unhealthy fructose half of sugar.

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