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Study offers insight to how fructose causes obesity, metabolic syndrome

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.

Medical research created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Big Corn, Big Sugar in bitter US row on sweetener

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.

Health created Dec 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Researchers look at effects of two common sweeteners on the body

With growing concern that excessive levels of fructose may pose a great health risk – causing high blood pressure, kidney disease and diabetes – researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, along ...

Health created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Tasting fructose with the pancreas

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 ...

Medical research created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds high fructose corn syrup-global prevalence of diabetes link

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 ...

Diabetes created Nov 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Grape polyphenols counteract fructose-induced effects

(HealthDay)—Grape polyphenol (PP) supplementation prevents fructose-induced oxidative stress and insulin resistance in healthy volunteers with high metabolic risk, according to research published online ...

Diabetes created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

High fructose consumption by adolescents may put them at cardiovascular risk

Evidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk is present in the blood of adolescents who consume a lot of fructose, a scenario that worsens in the face of excess belly fat, researchers report.

Health created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sugar and corn syrup makers in bitter clash

(AP) -- The setting sun splashes warm hues across a ripening cornfield as a man and his daughter wander through rows of towering plants.

Other created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New evidence in fructose debate: Could it be healthy for us?

A new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital suggests that fructose may not be as bad for us as previously thought and that it may even provide some benefit.

Diabetes created Jun 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Exercise prevents fructose-induced hypertriglyceridemia

(HealthDay)—Moderate aerobic exercise prevents fructose-induced hypertriglyceridemia in healthy males, according to a study published online May 14 in Diabetes.

Diabetes created May 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sugar: Just how bad is it?

A couple of weeks ago, science writer Gary Taubes — author of the book “Why We Get Fat” — wrote an article for the New York Times magazine in which he analyzed the debate over whether sugar ...

Health created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Sugar as a potential health risk is getting a closer look

Robert Lustig, MD, a UCSF pediatrician and clinical researcher, is an outspoken iconoclast when it comes to diet and metabolism.

Health created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Food for thought: Panel discusses how labeling products could be improved

Food labels appear mundane enough, but the tug of war playing out behind them about what's on them is anything but.

Health created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Addiction to unhealthy foods could help explain the global obesity epidemic

Research presented today shows that high-fructose corn syrup can cause behavioural reactions in rats similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine. These results, presented by addiction expert Francesco Leri, ...

Overweight and Obesity created May 22, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study finds neither HFCS nor table sugar increases liver fat under 'real world' conditions

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 a ...

Diabetes created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fructose

Fructose (also levulose or laevulose) is a simple reducing sugar found in many foods and is one of the three important dietary monosaccharides along with glucose and galactose. Honey, tree fruits, berries, melons, and some root vegetables, such as beets, sweet potatoes, parsnips, and onions, contain fructose, usually in combination with glucose in the form of sucrose. Fructose is also derived from the digestion of granulated table sugar (sucrose), a disaccharide consisting of glucose and fructose.

Crystalline fructose and high-fructose corn syrup are often mistakenly confused as the same product. The former is produced from a fructose-enriched corn syrup which results in a finished product of at least 98% fructose. The latter is usually supplied as a mixture of nearly equal amounts of fructose and glucose.

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