News tagged with fructose corn

Tasting fructose with the pancreas

Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February ...

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Big Corn, Big Sugar in bitter US row on sweetener

Big Corn and Big Sugar are locked in a legal and public relations fight in the US over a plan to change the name of a corn-based sweetener that has gotten a bad name.

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created Dec 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Sugar and corn syrup makers in bitter clash

(AP) -- The setting sun splashes warm hues across a ripening cornfield as a man and his daughter wander through rows of towering plants.

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created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Schools may ban chocolate milk over added sugar

(AP) -- Chocolate milk has long been seen as the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down, but the nation's childhood obesity epidemic has a growing number of people wondering whether that's wise.

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created May 09, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 10

Sugar as a potential health risk is getting a closer look

Robert Lustig, MD, a UCSF pediatrician and clinical researcher, is an outspoken iconoclast when it comes to diet and metabolism.

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created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

What makes fructose fattening? Researchers find some answers in the brain

The dietary concerns of too much fructose is well documented. High-fructose corn syrup has become the sweetener most commonly added to processed foods. Many dietary experts believe this increase directly correlates to the ...

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created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

The not-so-sweet truth about sugar -- a risk choice?

More and more people have become aware of the dangers of excessive fructose in diet. A new review on fructose in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) indicates jus ...

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created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

High-fructose corn syrup in soda has much more fructose than advertised, study finds

High-fructose corn syrup is often singled out as Food Enemy No. 1 because it has become ubiquitous in processed foods over about the last 30 years -- a period that coincides with a steep rise in obesity. One of the primary ...

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created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Corn syrup producers want sweeter name: corn sugar

(AP) -- The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar.

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created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 8

Pancreatic cancers use fructose, common in the Western diet, to fuel their growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose, very common in the Western diet, to activate a key cellular pathway that drives cell division, helping the cancer to grow more quickly, a study by ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (17) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

High fructose, trans fats lead to significant liver disease, says study

Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have discovered that a diet with high levels of fructose - levels equivalent to that in high fructose corn syrup - and of trans fats not only increases obesity, ...

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created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring

(PhysOrg.com) -- High fructose corn syrup, which is linked to obesity, may also be harmful to the liver, according to Duke University Medical Center research.

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created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

High fructose corn syrup: A recipe for hypertension

A diet high in fructose increases the risk of developing high blood pressure (hypertension), according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San ...

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 12

Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup

Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees. Their study, which appears ...

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup

Researchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees. Their study, which appears ...

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2