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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

Added Fructose Larger Contributor to Diabetes Than Carbohydrates

Author:     Rebekah Marcarelli
Source:     Headlines and Global News
Publication Date:     Feb 02, 2015 12:09 PM EST
 Link: Added Fructose Larger Contributor to Diabetes Than Carbohydrates
Stephan:  
If you look at the label of almost any processed food you will notice that high fructose corn syrup is almost inevitably present. And, of course, the food processing companies -- following  the example of the tobacco companies before them -- deny there is any connection between their processed food and the diabetes epidemic. Here's the latest research and it says something rather different, ""[At] an individual level, limiting consumption of foods and beverages that contain added sugars, particularly added fructose, may be one of the single most effective strategies for ensuring one's robust future health," the researchers conclude. "[At] an individual level, limiting consumption of foods and beverages that contain added sugars, particularly added fructose, may be one of the single most effective strategies for ensuring one's robust future health," the researchers conclude.
The findings were published in a recent edition of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Added sugar is a major driver of diabetes development. Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Added sugar is a major driver of diabetes development.
Credit : Wikimedia Commons

New research points to added sugars, especially fructose, as the main driver behind the development of diabetes and pre-diabetes.

Current dietary guidelines allow 25 percent of total calories to include added sugars, but these new findings suggest the need for a drastic reduction in added sugar consumption, Elsevier Health Sciences reported.

“At current levels, added-sugar consumption, and added-fructose consumption in particular, are fueling a worsening epidemic of type 2 diabetes,” said lead author James J. DiNicolantonio, a cardiovascular research scientist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Mo. “Approximately 40 (percent) of U.S. adults already have some degree of insulin resistance with projections that nearly the same percentage will eventually develop frank diabetes.”

The recent findings suggest consuming added fructose influences both overall metabolism and insuling resistance. Past studies have shown isocaloric exchange with fructose or sucrose leads to increases in fasting insulin, fasting glucose, and the insulin/glucose […]

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