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You probably don’t want to eat a banana while reading “I Quit Sugar,” a new cookbook and eight-week detox program by Australian journalist Sarah Wilson.
One banana is approximately 55 percent sugar, over half of which is fructose.
Fructose is bad news, according to Wilson.
It makes us eat more, she says in her 2013 book from Clarkson Potter Publishers. It converts directly to fat and has been connected with various cancers. And fructose also makes us sick by doing such damage as inhibiting the immune system, messing with fertility, and causing things like indigestion and malabsorption.
Wilson makes the innocent banana, which seemed like a smart food choice, now feel like a hand grenade.
“I’m responsible for so much guilt in the world,” says Wilson, who adds that agave syrup is another ticking time bomb.
“People get really surprised about that,” she says, adding that a “strong marketing push” has made people believe that agave syrup is better than table sugar. But, Wilson, who writes about her sugar-free life on the blog www.sarahwilson.com, says, agave is 70 percent to 90 percent fructose.
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