http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Food labels appear mundane enough, but the tug of war playing out behind them about what's on them is anything but. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-food-thought-panel-discusses-products.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:19:09 EST news282298739 A study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism presented compelling data showing the consumption of both high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and sucrose (table sugar) at levels consistent with average daily consumption do not increase liver fat in humans, a leading cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The findings also add to an already well-established body of science that high fructose corn syrup and table sugar are metabolically equivalent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-hfcs-table-sugar-liver-fat.html Diabetes Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:40:01 EST news279894487 A new study by University of Southern California (USC) and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-high-fructose-corn-syrup-global-prevalence.html Diabetes Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:38:02 EST news273238670 Obese patients with type 2 diabetes who consume higher amounts of fructose display reduced levels of liver adenosine triphosphate (ATP)—a compound involved in the energy transfer between cells. The findings, published in the September issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, indicate that elevated uric acid levels (hyperuricemia) are associated with more severe hepatic ATP depletion in response to fructose intake. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-dietary-fructose-linked-elevated-uric.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:56:49 EST news266756170 US regulators Wednesday denied a request to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup to merely "corn sugar," in a high-profile dispute between two industries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-denies-disputed-sweetener.html Health Thu, 31 May 2012 04:30:59 EST news257657436 A group of scientists from across the world have come together in a just-published study that provides new insights into how fructose causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, more commonly known as diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-insight-fructose-obesity-metabolic-syndrome.html Medical research Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:00:11 EST news249572686 Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February 6 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) discovered that beta cells in the pancreas use taste receptors to sense fructose, a type of sugar. According to the study, the beta cells respond to fructose by secreting insulin, a hormone that regulates the body's response to dietary sugar. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fructose-pancreas.html Medical research Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:00:05 EST news247755259 Big Corn and Big Sugar are locked in a legal and public relations fight in the US over a plan to change the name of a corn-based sweetener that has gotten a bad name. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-big-corn-sugar-bitter-row.html Health Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:32:37 EST news243318722 (AP) -- The setting sun splashes warm hues across a ripening cornfield as a man and his daughter wander through rows of towering plants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-sugar-corn-syrup-makers-bitter.html Other Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:00:17 EST news235191480