If the borrower chose a 20-year loan term at a rate of 4.25 percent (mortgage rates tend to be less for shorter term mortgages), the monthly payment would be $1238 ($26 less than the borrower currently pays) and the borrowerâs loan balance would reach $160,000 in five-and-one-half years.
The Deadly Effects of Fructose â Part 2. Fructose and fatty liver. Fructose is even more strongly linked to obesity and diabetes than glucose. From a nutritional standpoint, neither fructose nor glucose contains essential nutrients. As a sweetener, both are similar. Yet fructose is particularly malevolent to human health compared to glucose due to its unique metabolism within the body.
Winter. The thing to know: fruit contains a lot of fructose. Sure, whole fruit contains vitamins, minerals and fibre, which slow the absorption of the sugar, but fructose is fructose. The other thing to know: we are designed to metabolise the amount of sugar contained in two small pieces of fruit a day.