https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uoc--fag091720.php
News Release 17-Sep-2020
University of California - Davis
Consuming high fructose corn syrup appears to be as bad for your health as consuming sugar in the form of fructose alone, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis. The study reports health risks related to the type of sugar consumed, but also reveals novel risks when sugars are combined, which has important implications for dietary guidelines.
When it comes to health risks, sugar in the form of fructose is clearly the bad guy. This is because a majority of fructose consumed ends up in the liver. When there is too much fructose, the liver produces uric acid and fat in the form of triglycerides, which increase the risk of fatty liver, heart disease and gout. But lead investigator Kimber Stanhope, a researcher with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, says the new data shows that we shouldn't let glucose off the hook.
"It turns out that the combination of fructose and glucose found in high fructose corn syrup appears to be worse than fructose alone for some heart disease risk factors," said Stanhope. "When we planned this study, we didn't expect to find this."
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The researchers expected risk factors would be highest for fructose and
lowest for glucose, with high fructose corn syrup somewhere in between.
This is exactly what they saw for some of the risk factors. However, for
others, including the risk factors many scientists believe are the most
predictive for heart disease, the increases were highest for high
fructose corn syrup due to an interaction of fructose and glucose.
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