CNN reports that a study that found that the more fructose (the sugar naturally found in fruit and vegetables) you eat, the more likely you are to have hypertension (1).
With all the worries about fructose products (high fructose corn syrup, refined fructose, etc.), this is not a cop-out to avoid fruit and vegetables all together. When you eat the whole fruit (or as much as possible), you get a small amount of fructose and plenty of fiber, which helps you properly process the sugar. Dr. Robert Lustig, MD at University of California, San Francisco shows how in his lecture, Sugar: The Bitter Truth. The section on biochemistry is technical, but well worth the time, if you have it and remember some of your high school biology.
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