News tagged with high fructose corn syrup


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

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

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

Increased dietary fructose linked to elevated uric acid levels and lower liver energy stores

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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

US denies name change for disputed sweetener

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.

Health created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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