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What We’re Reading: Fretting Over Fructose October 24, 2008 This
week at MyDiabetesCentral, Gretchen Becker writes about the
dangers associated with fructose—specifically, increased blood
triglycerides and risk of obesity. She discusses what this means
for high-fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners, concluding
that all added sugars should be avoided. Becker also brings up a
recent study on the effects of fructose on leptin, a hormone
that regulates appetite and metabolism. In this experiment,
laboratory mice were fed a high-fructose diet. When both these
mice and other (control) mice were injected with leptin, the
control mice ate less, while the fructose-fed mice did not,
suggesting that they were resistant to the effects of leptin.
Later, when the mice were given a high-calorie, high-fat diet,
the fructose-fed mice gained more weight than the control mice.
This blog entry was written by Editorial Assistant Quinn
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