Mannose impairs tumour growth and enhances chemotherapy Mannose impairs tumour growth and enhances chemotherapy Tumours use more glucose than normal, healthy tissues. However, it is very hard to control the amount of glucose in your body through diet alone. In… Read More ›
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Sugar helps cancer cells regulate voltage
Sugar helps cancer cells regulate voltage Sugar helps cancer cells regulate voltage Researchers in an attempt to understand why Cancers will hold onto sugar yet not use it as fuel discovered that Cancer Cells use sugar as a sort of… Read More ›
High Fructose Corn Syrup found to kill animals almost twice as fast as table sugar
High Fructose Corn Syrup found to kill animals almost twice as fast as table sugar – SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 5, 2015 – When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the… Read More ›
Pancreatic cancers use ( HFCS ) fructose, common in the Western diet, to fuel their growth ( Smoking Gun )
Public release date: 2-Aug-2010 HRR: Research was mostly ignored and covered up in 2010 – To date there has been no update on this study – this is the first time a link has been shown between fructose and cancer… Read More ›
Fructose: the poison index
A ruling on fructose boosts the powerful sugar industry, either by incompetence or collusion, but is based on pseudoscience Robert Lustig The Guardian, Monday 21 October 2013 16.00 EDT Fizzy drinks can have a ‘serum fructose concentration of six… Read More ›
Sugar is toxic to mice in ‘safe’ doses
Contact: Annalisa Purser annalisa.purser@utah.edu 801-581-7295 University of Utah New test hints 3 sodas daily hurt lifespan, reproduction SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 13, 2013 – When mice ate a diet of 25 percent extra sugar – the mouse equivalent of a… Read More ›
The dark side of artificial sweeteners
Contact: Mary Beth O’Leary moleary@cell.com 617-397-2802 Cell Press More and more Americans are consuming artificial sweeteners as an alternative to sugar, but whether this translates into better health has been heavily debated. An opinion article published by Cell Press on… Read More ›
Think that’s ACTUAL fruit in your cereal? How food companies replace the real deal with ‘imposter’ sugar balls and soybean oil
Consumer watchdogs warn lebals are fooling us with high-sugar ‘fruit imposters’ inside packaging promising ‘real fruit, full of vitamins’ The FDA permits labels to say ‘real fruit’ as long as the word ‘flavoured’ also appears on the packaging By Daily… Read More ›
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Not so sweet: Over-consumption of sugar linked to aging
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Sylvain-Jacques Desjardins sylvain-jacques.desjardins@umontreal.ca 514-343-7593 University of Montreal University of Montreal scientists explain how sugar shortens lifespan in PLoS Genetics This release is available in French. From left to right: Antoine Roux, Pascal Chartrand, Gerardo… Read More ›
Pancreatic cancers use high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), common in the Western diet to fuel their growth
Contact: Kim Irwin kirwin@mednet.ucla.edu310-206-2805 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences 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… Read More ›
Too much sugar turns off gene that controls the effects of sex steroids
Eating too much fructose and glucose can turn off the gene that regulates the levels of active testosterone and estrogen in the body, shows a new study in mice and human cell cultures that’s published this month in… Read More ›
Fizzical harm: Drinking sugary drinks doesn’t just pile on the pounds – it changes your body so it’s harder to lose weight
By Rob Waugh Drinking sugary drinks for just a month alters body chemistry More difficult to lose weight Body grows to ‘prefer’ sugar to digesting own fat Drinking sugared fizzy drinks for just a month changes the body permanently so… Read More ›