Low-carb and paleo forums are full of people who eat none or very little sugar and their lipid panels horrify mainstream doctors.
Indeed. Healthy nutrition is not a matter of making a single choice, and individuals vary greatly in their responses to foods and drugs. (As one example: Green tea puts my blood pressure -up-, quite a lot, up to 12 hours later).
Lustig is making two main points I think:
Carbs aint carbs. Fructose in its various forms is more like a saturated fat metabolically than a carb.
The safe dose of fructose is pretty low for most people.
I haven’t heard him advocate VLC.
The most important point is that carbs aint carbs.
Indeed. Healthy nutrition is not a matter of making a single choice, and individuals vary greatly in their responses to foods and drugs. (As one example: Green tea puts my blood pressure -up-, quite a lot, up to 12 hours later).
Lustig is making two main points I think:
Carbs aint carbs. Fructose in its various forms is more like a saturated fat metabolically than a carb.
The safe dose of fructose is pretty low for most people.
I haven’t heard him advocate VLC.
The most important point is that carbs aint carbs.
True, but then fats ain’t fats as well -- different fatty acids have rather different effect on humans. Which is also true of different amino acids...