The following story was reported by Amy Willis with Telegraph.co.uk
The sweetener fructose, a cheap sugar substitute found in thousands of processed foods and soft drinks, may be increasing childhood diabetes and the obesity crisis, new findings suggest.
In a study by researchers at the University of California, 16 volunteers were put on a controlled diet with high-levels of fructose – a sweetener derived from corn.
After 10 weeks, the volunteers had developed more fat cells around the heart, liver and other major organs as well as showing signs of food processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. Another group of volunteers, who were also on a controlled diet but without the fructose, did not show the fat cell increase or the food processing abnormalities. Both groups put on the same amount of weight.
Children are said to be in a higher risk group as they are more likely to eat products with high-levels of sweeteners over longer periods of time. “This is the first evidence we have that fructose increases diabetes and heart disease independently from causing simple weight gain,” Kimber Stanhope, a molecular biologist who led the study, told a Sunday newspaper.
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I agree with your recent findings. Since my youngest son was diagnosed with an allergy to corn, we could not figure out why he would continue to cough. The answer lay in the pervasive use of corn syrup. It is so widely used and unquestioningly accepted that we can only find three types of cookies out of an entire aisle that don’t use it. He can’t eat luncheon meats and most breads. Now they even put it in the turkeys by injection! It is sad how apathetic people are about the use of corn in all types of food. Now I am happy that we have eliminated this unnatural food from our diet. Home made is best!