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‘Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show’ Episode 223: Dr. Richard Johnson Defends His Fructose-Only Obesity Hypothesis


Dr. Richard Johnson contends fructose explains why we’re fat and sick

In recent years, the research community has been looking into what exactly is causing the population to become obese and diseased. While many of us in the low-carb world believe that carbohydrates drive insulin which leads to fat storage and health decline based on the historical science (shared by Gary Taubes in Good Calories, Bad Calories) as well as recent research, not everyone is on board with this message. My podcast interview guest today says fructose and fructose alone is the culprit in obesity and health.

In Episode 223 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” you will hear from Dr. Richard Johnson who authored a book entitled The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That Is Making You Fat and Sick that you may have seen and wondered how it fits into your own health regimen. I’ve previously blogged about his contention that fructose is detrimental towards health and that consuming starchy foods plays no role in obesity and disease. This runs counter to what many of my readers and listeners believe which is why Dr. Johnson was such a great guest for an interview. Listen closely to his rationale about why he contends fructose and not all carbs are culpable (except for 15-20% of the population dealing with insulin resistance conditions such as pre-diabetes or diabetes). I had to educate him a bit about what a genuine “low-carb diet” really is, but this was still a rather FASCINATING TOPIC!

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What about this idea shared by Dr. Richard Johnson that fructose is the culprit in why people are fat and sick? Do you buy his reasoning why it isn’t all carbohydrates that explain this? We’d love to have your comments shared in the show notes section of Episode 223. Pick up your own copy of The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That Is Making You Fat and Sick to learn more about the work Dr. Johnson is doing. And I appreciate his appearance on my podcast to talk about his life’s work.

Coming up next week, we have Mackay Rippey, an acupuncturist in New York state, who discusses healthy living from a rather unique standpoint on Monday. Then on Thursday, you’ll hear from Patrick “The Diabetic Warrior” Lecky as he talks about how to NATURALLY clinically “cure” this terrible disease. You won’t want to miss these interviews! SEE YA!

January 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: 1
  • http://www.TheBunnellFarm.com Tom Bunnell

    This guy means well, he just can’t grasp the fact that natures fructose factories in the form of plants and trees and vegetation have been altered by man and his inventions to increase their fructose and sucrose content in our fruits and vegetables and seeds by about a thousand times what they once were.

    I agree, Tom! Dr. Johnson is ALMOST there, but it’s a shame that he gets the fructose connection to insulin, fat storage, and disease, but not the carbohydrate connection. Why would it apply to that 15-20% he claims needs to cut all carbs and not the 80-85%, too?

    Dr. Johnson and most low-carbers will certainly agree that if we could get people to ditch fructose almost entirely from their diet that we’d be a much healthier and fitter nation of people. I am just concerned that someone with that predisposition to insulin resistance and diabetes he talked about and doesn’t know it yet will get discouraged and angry that their “no fructose” diet isn’t working when they need to cut out almost all carbohydrates to see results. Before I ate this way, I didn’t even know what insulin was!

    THANK YOU again for your feedback, Tom!

    –Jimmy

  • Peter Silverman

    I don’t know if he’s right, but this interview does explain 2 things.

    Why the Japanese can eat a high starch diet and have a 2% obesity ratio as opposed to 30% in the US.

    Why giving up sugar hasn’t lowered my somewhat high blood sugar level (he says once your sugar is high you may need to restrict all carbs).

    Thanks Jimmy for bringing us this very provocative interview.

    One thing in his research that he didn’t say in the interview is that beer has a similar effect to HFCS.

    I think there’s a lot more to this than meets the eye. Dr. Johnson is certainly one of the leading voices right now in the field of exposing fructose for what it is–a culprit at the very least in obesity and disease.

    –Jimmy

  • http://www.TheBunnellFarm.com Tom Bunnell

    The quantities and calorie totals of the food the Japanese eat and drink vs The United States is why they have a 2% vs 30% obesity ratio. — We have millions of thin people right here in the United States that also consume 75% to 90% of there daily calories in carbohydrates and for the same reason. — They choose to eat and drink lesser amounts. — Culturally the Japanese choose not to be gluttons except for there Sumo wrestlers.

    Obesity is just one facet in this

  • Sharon Drosehn

    Maybe the Japanese aren’t exposed to hfcs like we are. An American child grows up eating this stuff and some of them start down the road of insulin resistance. Then they must keep all carbs very low.

    I have an aunt who’s my same age who eats very little and practically lives on carbs. I still can’t figure out how she pulls it off. I on the other hand have always pigged out and am now pre-diabetic and trying to do low carb. I guess some Americans are in her camp and are doing fine. Some are in my camp and their health is suffering from the hfcs, sugar, calorie, carb overload that they’ve subjected their bodies to all these years.

    It all comes back to : don’t eat junk food; have sweets as a rare treat, eat real food. I don’t think people who can eat little are morally superior. Their culture helps them (Japan) and in America, the ones who can pull off eating carbs and little food just have a different mindset and possibly better body chemistry or genes or something. Maybe in America we have more of a “freedom-no limits” mentality that is great in some ways but not when it comes to food.

  • Meese

    Didn’t David Gillespie (author of “Sweet Poison” from Episode 219) have similar points to make about fructose? Seems like fructose has a special role in the (huge) continuum of carbohydrate-driven…er…badness.

    After reading Gary Taubes’ GCBC, “The Sugar Fix” left me wanting more detail on the science. Johnson writes like he wants us to take too much of what he has to say on faith. If fructose is specifically implicated in leptin & insulin resistance, it’s possible that it opens the door to all the unfortunate effects of other carbs…but he admits the mechanism hasn’t been discovered yet. I hope Taubes’ people are successful in getting studies funded. I’m dying of curiosity here!

    We all are waiting on those studies, Meese. Someday and hopefully SOONER than later.

    –Jimmy