MRI shows fructose may spur overeating - From: AAP - January 02,
2013 SCIENTISTS have used imaging tests to show for the first
time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet,
can trigger brain changes that may lead to overeating. After
drinking a fructose beverage, the brain doesn't register the
feeling of being full as it does when simple glucose is
consumed, researchers found. It's a small study and does not
prove that fructose or its relative, high-fructose corn syrup,
can cause obesity, but experts say it adds evidence they may
play a role. The sugars often are added to processed foods and
beverages and consumption has risen dramatically since the 1970s
along with obesity. A third of US children and teens and more
than two-thirds of adults are obese or overweight. All sugars
are not equal - even though they contain the same amount of
calories - because they are metabolised differently in the body.
Table sugar is sucrose, which is half fructose, half glucose,
while high-fructose corn syrup is