Originally Posted by
prathmann
But I've only heard that as the definition of a poison from Lustig. Mosby's Med. Dictionary defines a poison as:
"any substance that impairs health or destroys life when ingested, inhaled, or absorbed by the body in relatively small amounts. ..." without any mention of exclusive liver metabolism as a requirement. Maybe that's why I haven't noticed any skull & cross bone labels on orange juice containers despite the high fructose content.
Uh, ok... i think you're reading into this too much. Excess fructose can impair health, will destroy life through chronic over ingestion, and is absorbed by the body in a small amount - the rest of which has to be metabolized by the liver like many other poisons. It doesn't have a skull and cross bones on it, but not all poisons have a skull and cross bone on them. The ethanol in your beer is one and mentioned in the presentation.
If you think it's safe to drink 1L of OJ a day and that you won't develop metabolic syndrome, that is cool. Otherwise i'm calling your bluff.