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From:	Dan K. (108.52.16.23)
Subject:	Dr. Doug, one more question- a troubling study on glucose
Date:	August 16, 2012 at 3:52 pm PST

Dr. Doug, thanks for your patient advice. I found a link to this study. The sugar
and starch in question was bananas and I was hoping you could give an
explanation

"the ingestion of sugar and starch actually can cause a depression of total bodily
oxygen absorption below basal requirements.

Here are some of the actual experimental results reported by Benedict and
Carpenter. They fed one subject 400 grams of bananas (413 calories) and
observed an increase in oxygen absorption of 5.5 grams during the first hour,
and a fall in oxygen absorption below basal requirement during the second,
third, and fourth hours.

Bananas contain chiefly sugar and starch. In the same subject, after 217 grams
of beefsteak, (451 calories) which consists of protein and fat, there was an
increase in oxygen absorption during each of four hours, with a total increase of
17.5 grams of oxygen against a net increase of only 1.5 grams of oxygen after
the bananas.

With larger meals the results were even more striking. For example, after 1382
calories of a sugar mixture, there was a fall in oxygen absorption of 11 grams
over an eight hour period with no initial increase; in other words the subject
would have consumed 11 grams more oxygen if he had fasted for the eight
hours.

On the other hand, after 1305 calories of beefsteak there was an increase in
oxygen absorption of 40 grams during an eight-hour period."

the study by Benedict and Carpenter was mentioned at
http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/foods22.php

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