Fructose increases heart disease risk factors and body weight

Researchers at the University of Texas, namely Peter J. Havel, Ph.D., Kimber Stanhope and colleagues designed a smart study to find out. First, they took two adults are fat (fat) and fat (fat), aged 43 years to 70 years, the middle of their clinics. For weeks, the volunteers' diets were strictly controlled. They receive a high-carbohydrate diet (55%), medium fat (30%) who had been balanced so that no excess energy to them, other than those issued for sport.

The sweetener they call sugar is actually a double sugar. Half the sugar called glucose, the body's basic fuel. Half is another sugar called fructose. Researchers have suspected that fructose is a bad actor, but the proof so far has been circumstantial. Fructose is worse than glucose.

After the measurement of risk factors for heart disease to them, such as blood fat, cholesterol, the weight, the researchers gave them freedom. Then, for 8 weeks, the volunteers were allowed to eat anything they wanted except for thing. Each person ought to drink two sweetened drinks each day, which provides 25% of the recommended every day energy intake. etengah subjects drank with pure glucose. The other half receive a fructose-sweetened drinks pure. The researchers continued to check their heart disease risk factors.


After 8 weeks, the volunteers were asked to return to the nearest clinic, where they continued to drink soft drinks but had to return on a balanced energy diet. weeks after they start drinking soft drinks, the dark side of sugar became more actual. Those who drank fructose-sweetened drinks showed signs of increased risk of heart disease. Who drank glucose-sweetened drinks is not the case.
The fructose drinkers LDL (bad) cholesterol, blood fats, and signs of worsening heart disease isiko. Their insulin sensitivity declined, a sign isiko their diabetes is also increasing.

It is early to give an overview of this new study. But Stanhope regretted ach that provides health food labels on soft drinks with sweeteners. "It's not a nice suggestion to drink plenty of soft drinks. They give people as much as two sodas a day. Some drink that much, some people are over that, and some have only one time a day. Give me years, and they will know more about eamanannya level. "

In addition, fructose drinkers earn additional weight around one.5 kg, while the glucose drinkers did not. This news may be bad. Stanhope said the preliminary information from new studies show that regular sugar and high fructose corn syrup each have the same effect with fructose alone, although they only contain half fructose and half glucose (usually normal syrup containing 100% glucose).

Stanhope reported these findings at the 67th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association on December 22 to 26 June 2007 in Chicago