Patients over 15 stones banned from hospital beds due to safety fears

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11. re: "I wish medical science would tune out the moralists and try to find out exactly what that is"

I could not agree more.

The data showing the real differnces in fructose verus glucose impacts on metabolism, insulin release, and ultimately appetite and obesity are piling up. Yet, if I hear one more poorly informed person--even other epidemiologists and related medical researchers-- state there is no difference--"sugar is sugar" and further the old tome, calories in equals calories out and that's all that is involved, I am going to lose it.

I keep remembering how long we waited for the dogmatic few to release our understanding of what causes gastric ulcers (after overwhelming evidence of the role of H. pylori) and try to hold onto hope that eventually we will open up to really trying to understand the issues of what is causing our obesity epidemic--ALL the causes.