Fructose Does Not Cause Weight Gain in Isocaloric Diet

Of course it doesn't.

In a meta-analysis that promises to generate a spectacular debate, Canadian researchers have challenged what they call "the fructose-centered view of obesity" with the finding that fructose does not cause weight gain in the setting of a calorie-controlled diet.

The results were reported here at the International Diabetes Federation World Diabetes Congress 2011 by John Sievenpiper, MD, PhD, from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and his colleagues.

In presenting the findings, Dr. Sievenpiper added fuel to the fructose debate, which has already sparked inflammatory headlines, lively letters to journal editors, and impassioned YouTube lectures that have gone viral, elevating some of his opponents to almost "rock star status," he said.

Richard Johnson, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of The Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That Is Making You Fat and Sick, said he has concerns about the Canadian findings.

"The way fructose stimulates weight is by causing leptin resistance; hence, it will not be observed with short-term studies or with isocaloric diets. Understanding physiology is required," he told Medscape Medical News.

No, s**thead, Johnson.

Understanding thermodynamics, specifically the First Law, is all that is required.

And you clearly do not know it.

Moron.