Posted on 08/11/2010 5:18:25 AM PDT by libh8er
“Both the authors and the press need to retract these alarmist and unsupported claims — especially the authors, since such gross over-interpretation of a lab study is inexcusable among academic scientists. They seem to be grasping for headlines and promoting some anti-fructose political agenda.”
Gilbert Ross, M.D., Executive Director and Medical Director of the American Council on Science and Health August 4, 2010, HealthFactsAndFears.com
WASHINGTON, DC – A study published in the August issue of Cancer Research1 has resulted in several premature and potentially misleading conclusions when it comes to fructose and its effect on pancreatic tumor cells. Unfortunately, the media covering this story, and even the authors, have been too quick to extrapolate the results of laboratory research on pure fructose to real-world conditions, which is not appropriate or helpful to consumers.
The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate that cancer cells utilize fructose as an alternate substrate to glucose for fueling growth. Cancer cells are well known for having multiple mechanisms to escape the body’s normal controls, which makes controlled laboratory studies poor models for generating meaningful results.
This study does not look at the way fructose is actually consumed by humans, as it was conducted in a laboratory, not inside the human body. The study also narrowly compared pure fructose to pure glucose, neither of which is consumed in isolation in the human diet. Humans consume a wide array of foods that contain both fructose and glucose in combination along with many other sugars and nutrients. Most notably, both sugar (sucrose) and high fructose corn syrup contain roughly 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose.
The study’s authors inaccurately state that high fructose corn syrup is the most significant source of fructose in the diet, whereas in the United States more fructose is still consumed from sugar than from high fructose corn syrup. Indeed, worldwide, humans consume nine times as much sucrose as they do high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is a natural, simple sugar also commonly found in fruits, vegetables, table sugar, maple syrup, and honey.
The causes of pancreatic cancer are poorly understood. To blame one component of the diet is highly speculative based on one, small study done in a Petri dish.
People should seek the advice of physicians, rather than rely on any one study, to make important decisions on medical treatment for a serious disease such as cancer.
For more information about high fructose corn syrup, please visit www.SweetSurprise.com.
Both fructose and glucose are part of a balanced diet when consumed along with the other basic food groups. These include (but are not necessarily limited to) Sugars, fat, alcohol, caffeine and salt.
I’m sitting down to my nutritious breakfast of SPAM, eggs, bacon, SPAM, Twinkies, coffee, SPAM and SPAM, followed by a jelly donut, cream filled Bismark, SPAM and beer. Instead of the traditional orange juice, I’m having High Fructose Corn Syrup with artificial orange flavoring.
And SPAM.
Scouts Out!
Food police Ho!
barbra ann
Spam is certainly is in the basic food gtoups.
barbra ann
When it is possible to convert the glucose-fructose mixtures that is HFCS into crystalline sucrose, I’ll believe it to be a safe alternative.
As an aside, CANOLA oil should be BANNED!!! Transfat Nazis should be rounded up and force fed via suppository for that CANOLA abomination!
Gilbert Ross gets it...too many scientists trying to grab a headline. It’s bad science plain and simple.
I avoid all thing made from corn because of a corn allergy and I agree with you on the better taste of things made from cane sugar but why should canola oil be banned? What is a canola BTW?
This is the first I've heard of fructose damaging the pancreas. The stronger evidence is that in the larger quantities it is consumed today, it poisons our livers, causing fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome (obesity, diabetes, heart disease and more)
>>> ...high fructose corn syrup contain roughly 50 percent glucose and 50 percent fructose
And they fudged those facts slightly in their article... HFCS contains 22% more fructose than glucose. 55/45 = 1.22
Americans eat over a hundred pounds of sugar a year now, plus almost everything in the store is sweetened with that crap HFCS.
CANOLA (it’s a registered trademark) is a processed form of rapeseed oil. Rapeseed is derived from turnips, brussels sprouts, cabbage. It’s low in saturated fats so it’s a darling of the food nazis. It has a bitter aftertaste, and a slick feel between the fingers, not greasy, slick.
My family and I have been doing everything we can to cut that literal devil piss out of our diets. Maple syrup for pancakes, Coca Cola from Mexico when we drink it, and only real cane sugar in other things. Better taste, and IMO, much better health.
My understanding is that it is genetically modified rape-seed oil. (rape seed is poisionous to humans)
A canola is an Italian pastry filled with cream... ;-P
Where did you get that? I've been studying rapeseed as a possible crop from which to extract oil for biodiesel for my farm tractors. Canola oil is rapeseed oil. The rapeseed plant is similar to a soybean plant. It's in the same family (Brassicaceae) as cabbage and mustard, but the oil isn't made from cabbage or turnips or Brussels Sprouts. It's made from pressing rapeseeds that grow on the rapeseed plant. The name "Canola" comes from a Latin word that means "turnip".
My wife has a corn allergy...dining out can be such an adventure...
If you have a sizable Jewish community near you stores will have cane sugar Coke around Passover. I’m told the Rabbi’s refuse to bless anything with HFCS in it.
I have never heard of a corn allergy. I always thought corn was pretty much allergy free. I guess not.
Broccoli oil. Yum, yum.
Actually, the study did not involve high fructose corn syrup. That was the point of the posted article. Unfortunately, people hear "fructose" and they think it's some concoction that was never consumed before HFCS.
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