Originally Posted by
79pmooney
By contrast, mankind has consumed fructose in large amounts forever. Pigging out on ripe fruit has been happening since before we evolved to humans.
Most fruit contain an almost even split of fructose and glucose... Before industrial revolution humans never consumed large amounts of any sugar. Pigging out on fruit or honey was a seasonal thing lasting few weeks per year and not everyday. Back in the old days it was really hard to overeat fruit or sugar to cause weight gain because of its limited supply...In our modern times majority of sugar consumption is not from fruit but from refined sugars which get added to so many different foods out there....Most people today don't eat sugar for fuel but as comfort food because they are addicted to it.