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News In Brief: Fructose may be key to weight gain
www.sciencenews.org ^
| September 9, 2013
| By Nathan Seppa
Posted on 09/10/2013 12:44:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
Mice that could not make or metabolize the sugar gained less than normal mice.
Mice lacking the ability to metabolize fructose don’t gain nearly as much weight as normal mice do, researchers report September 10 in Nature Communications.
Fructose, which some people blame for the obesity epidemic and its related health crises (SN: 6/1/13, p. 22), shows up in high-fructose corn syrup and in table sugar, or sucrose. The body also makes home-grown fructose by modifying glucose in a process involving an enzyme called aldose reductase.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cornsyrup; fructose; hfcs; nutrition; obesity; sugar; type2diabetes
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To: Red Badger
my vote is that the fork is the main contributor to weight gain
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posted on
09/10/2013 12:47:19 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: NativeSon
So we should blame Big Silverware?.............
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posted on
09/10/2013 12:48:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
The evil flatware company, Oneida!
To: Red Badger
I thought the DemocRATS were blaming obesity on “climate change”. Like chipmunks, people were storing fat for the upcoming, severe global warming winter and ice age.
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posted on
09/10/2013 12:50:03 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The time for impeachment has come.)
To: Marie Antoinette
And Paul Revere..........
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posted on
09/10/2013 12:51:42 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
Google “Robert Lustig” on the subject of fructose, along with his YouTube speeches.
To: Kennard
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posted on
09/10/2013 12:56:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
Fructose, which some people blame for the obesity epidemic and its related health crises (SN: 6/1/13, p. 22), shows up in high-fructose corn syrup and in table sugar, or sucrose. He really wrote this? Fructose shows up in Sucrose?
And this guy is a science writer?
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posted on
09/10/2013 12:59:25 PM PDT
by
texas booster
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To: Red Badger
This is news?
How about ‘fat people tend to weigh more than thin people do on average’ ?
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:01:29 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
To: texas booster
To: texas booster
“(Sucros)is a disaccharide composed of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose.... “
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:12:27 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
To: 9YearLurker
no, it's not “found in” sucrose. the monomer is in the molecule but that like saying that “man” is found in a female be she is a “woman” .. ok, not the best analogy
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:12:43 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Paradox
sucrose is a molecule must be chemically acted upon to break into the constituents
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:14:19 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: Red Badger
He was hungry for those good things
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:15:46 PM PDT
by
Freestate316
(Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
To: NativeSon
Indeed, which occurs readily in the mammalian gut.
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:17:05 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
To: Red Badger
We must ban high capacity utensils!
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:17:07 PM PDT
by
Freestate316
(Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
To: NativeSon
You completely lost me in the man-woman analogy.
As far as I understand it, fructose is a component of sucrose, which is all he’s getting at.
To: NativeSon
But doesn’t that breakdown occur in digestion?
To: Freestate316
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posted on
09/10/2013 1:28:03 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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