Sugar and high fructose corn syrup hide in most processed foods, condiments and sauces, sometimes labelled as dextrose or corn syrup. HFCS is cheaper than sugar, goes mostly to the liver, and what is not used for energy is stored as fat; US sugar use has climbed steeply.
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FINALLY People Starting to Consume Less Sugar!
Added sugar in the US diet fell from about 100 grams a day in 1999-2000 to 77 grams in 2007-2008, mostly from drinking less soda, an analysis of more than 42,000 people found. Mercola adds rat work suggesting free fructose does more metabolic harm than sucrose.
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High fructose corn syrup may boost risk of diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease
Rats given sugary drinks for 56 days built up more abdominal fat, higher triglycerides and impaired insulin and glucose control than rats drinking water, despite similar body weight. Only the fructose-glucose group showed raised fasting glycaemia, a pre-diabetes sign.
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Is Sugar Toxic?
Robert Lustig's 90-minute lecture calling sugar a poison has passed 800,000 YouTube views. He argues sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup are equally harmful whatever the calorie count, and the New York Times says a mass of evidence stands behind his claims.
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Sugars may boost risk of certain cancers
Among 435,674 adults in the NIH-AARP study, added sugars tracked with higher esophageal adenocarcinoma risk, added fructose with small intestine cancer, and every sugar studied with pleural cancer. In women, all the sugars studied were inversely linked to ovarian cancer.
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Meat, dairy products, sugar may up breast cancer risk - studies
Two studies tie insulin-like growth factor I to breast cancer: French researchers measured higher average serum IGF-I in 44 patients than in 92 controls, 26 versus 20 ng/ml, and a second found top-quartile women 92 percent more likely to be diagnosed, an association seen only in Caucasian women.
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Pancreatic cancer, linked to dietary habits, grows slowly - studies
Johns Hopkins researchers modelling mutations from patients who died of pancreatic cancer estimate about 11.7 years for the first cancer cell to arise in a high-grade lesion, 6.8 more years before spread, and 2.7 years to death, leaving a window for earlier detection.
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Fructose promotes growth of pancreatic cancer
UCLA researchers compared how pancreatic cancer cells in Petri dishes use glucose and fructose, and found the cells route fructose through the non-oxidative pentose phosphate pathway to build nucleic acids for division. Lead author Anthony Heaney calls refined sugar a hidden danger.
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How does sugar raise heart disease risk?
A JAMA study led by Miriam Vos found high added-sugar intake tracked with worse blood lipids, including an unfavorable triglyceride-to-HDL ratio. It was not a trial, so it cannot show sugar caused the risk. Hu and Malik point to glycemic load and fructose as possible mechanisms.
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Soft drinks blamed for diabetes and heart disease
A study presented to the American Heart Association attributes more than 100,000 diabetes cases and 14,000 new coronary heart disease cases over the past decade to sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks. The AHA urges daily caps on added sugar and weekly limits on soft drinks.
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Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener Is Far More Deadly
Mercola cites a trial in which 16 volunteers on a controlled high-fructose diet for 10 weeks grew new fat cells around the heart, liver and other digestive organs and showed food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. A glucose group did not.
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141 reasons sugar ruins your health
An excerpt from Nancy Appleton's book Suicide by Sugar lists claimed harms of sugar, among them suppressed immunity, disturbed mineral balance, lower HDL, chromium and copper deficiency, hyperactivity in children, hypoglycemia and premature aging.
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