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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Sugar - harmless, no - deadly, yes
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 17:39:53 EDT
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

>   Honey may not contain sucrose, but it also does not contain any
>   fructose.  Honey contains about 85% glucose, at least,
>   thats what I remember from biology, whereas sucrose is only 50%.  

Impossible.  Sucrose contains NO glucose and NO fructose.
Sucrose contains only sucrose.

Or did you mean to say that _table sugar_ is half glucose?
This I've never heard before.

>   We all know that it is the glucose thats the problem,
>   not sucrose or fructose. 

I didn't know this.  Does anybody know whether this is true,
or have any explanation?

	Frank Silbermann