Fructose: Nightmare Sugar

Fructose is half of table sugar and almost everyone in a modern culture eats a lot of it.  Every cake, donut, coke, candy bar that you ingest pours huge amounts of fructose into your system and a cascade of nasty chemical, hormonal and metabolic responses.  One researcher did a nice summary by stating: "Fructose elevates triglycerides, cholesterol, uric acid, urea nitrogen and carnitine in blood [and] decreases glucose tolerance, increases insulin resistance and causes a shift in balance from oxidation to esterification of nonesterified fatty acids, resulting in elevated secretion of VLDL". [1]

Ouch! Short of kidnapping your family and torching your house, what else could something do to you? Look at that list: fructose raises most of the major markers for heart disease.  Other studies have shown that fructose leads to arteriosclerosis, which will very bad for you penis. [2]

Every male should understand what makes fructose unique and why it is one of the hardest foods for our sex lives:

REFERENCES:

1) J of Nutr, Sep 1998, 128(9):1442-1449, "Long-Term Fructose Consumption Accelerates Glycation and Several Age-Related Variables in Male Rats", Boaz Levi and Moshe J. Werman

2) J Atheroscler Thromb, 2005, 12(5):260-267, "Fructose Ingestion Enhances Atherosclerosis and Deposition of Advanced Glycated End-products in Cholesterol-fed Rabbits"