Princeton researchers found rats drinking high fructose corn syrup gained more weight than rats drinking table sugar and, over six months, showed signs of metabolic syndrome. This is an animal study, and the Corn Refiners Association maintains the two sweeteners are nutritionally the same.
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High fructose corn syrup the cause of obesity epidemic, new study suggests
A Princeton study in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior reports rats drinking high fructose corn syrup gained more weight than rats given table sugar in equal quantity, and that long-term use raised abdominal fat and triglycerides. Bart Hoebel says this holds under their test conditions.
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This Common Food Ingredient Is As Addictive as Cocaine?
Colorado nephrologist Richard Johnson says uric acid sits at the center of obesity, high blood pressure and kidney disease: newly diagnosed hypertensive adolescents had elevated levels 90 percent of the time, and lowering it normalized blood pressure in 87 percent. Fructose raises it potently.
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Fructose may be unhealthy
G.A. Bray concludes in Current Opinion in Lipidology that fructose is hazardous to cardiometabolic health. His analysis found people in the top quantile of soft drink consumption were 24% more likely to have cardiometabolic disease than those in the bottom.
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Fructose Tied to Higher Blood Pressure
Two studies offered the first evidence that a diet high in fructose raises blood pressure in men, and one suggested people eating junk food and sweetened drinks at night may gain weight faster. Mercola disputes the claim that fructose is no worse than other sugars.
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Fructose linked to high risk of high blood pressure
Richard Johnson and colleagues gave 74 men 200 grams of fructose a day for two weeks; systolic pressure rose about six millimeters and diastolic about three. Men who also took the gout drug allopurinol saw no rise, and most readings returned to normal within two months.
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