From Stephanie Trotter
I enjoyed your look at sugar’s health effects, and was fascinated by the statement that “fructose doesn’t affect leptin production [the hormone that makes you feel full]; one small study even suggests it ups the level of its counterpart ghrelin, the hormone that makes you hungry”. In other words, fructose encourages overeating (1 February, p 34).
This fits my experience while at boarding school where the diet was biased towards sweet puddings, white bread and jam – all filled with this sugar. I spent four years putting on weight in term time and I was also permanently hungry.
Seaview, Isle of Wight, UK
