Posted on 12/06/2024 10:56:49 AM PST by Red Badger
Eating a specific type of sugar can turbocharge cancers and make them more deadly, according to new research.
Fructose — which is added to thousands of US food and drinks — was found to speed up the growth of certain kinds of skin, breast and cervical tumors.
The study showed this type of sugar gets converted by the liver into components that tumors need to build new cells and grow.
The more quickly a tumor grows, the more aggressive the cancer may become - able to take over a person's body before they can fight back.
Added fructose is sugar that is extracted from sources like corn and added to processed foods, most commonly in the form of high fructose corn syrup.
Some early studies have suggested that eating more of these processed sugars might not just accelerate cancer growth, but could also be a cause of some kinds of cancer.
Added fructose is different from fruit fructose, a natural sugar found in fruits that is typically accompanied by fiber and other nutrients that slow down its absorption into the blood.
In the US, manufacturers are generally allowed to add fructose to foods without limitation, which means its found in high amounts in many different processed foods.
Similarly developed nations have issued caps on the additive — the EU only permits a fraction of the sugar in its processed foods.
This creates a food system in the US where fructose, and high fructose corn syrup, is found in sweetened items, like soda, fruit juice and yogurt, as well in unexpected items, like pasta sauce, salad dressing.
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Added fructose is different from fruit fructose, a natural sugar found in fruits that is typically accompanied by fiber and other nutrients that slow down its absorption into the blood.
Can’t possibly be banned soon enough. Try to find much not packed with the poison crap. Typr II Diabetes epidemic? Where does it come from? Can you guess? What about obesity?
It is high time someone did!
The corn producers lobby and major manufacturers of HFCS have a powerful lobby in Washington and have pushed tariffs on imported cane sugar to well above world market prices thus creating a huge market for cheaper HFCS in the US. I try to avoid products with HFCS, but it is in nearly everything. I avoid soft drinks which are heavily laced with HFCS, but on occasion indulge with a bottle of Mexican import Coca Cola still made with cane sugar. There is a huge difference in taste.
You name it and it probably has HFCS. they evevn add it to things that are already natrualy sweet. Hope it is banned very soon!
But Cuban sugar futures
they are an EU friendly store not the American market products
Cuba is a big exporter of cane sugar, but export no corn products worth noting. They certainly appreciate a high global asking price for cane sugar, given that they don’t produce that many things, other than pharmaceuticals and Marxists, etc.
Soon to be banned by RFKJR.
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If you look at the ingredients on food labels, I believe at least 80% of food items contain high fructose corn syrup. It’s one f the cheapest sweaters available.
True. The version today is also likely genetically modified HFCS.
“A simple google search would have answered your question.”
The article you reference ain’t for the layman. Didn’t appear to answer my question.
And obesity and diabetes rates have been rising for 50 years also.
Obesity and diabetes I’ll give you.
Cancer? Ehhh
Once again, I must point out that it would be real news if a laboratory rat DID NOT get cancer. They put, what, ten lifetimes of a substance into one rat and, Shazam! the rat gets sick.
“Fructose - added to thousands of US food and drinks...”
Typical usual bad “science” writing, hence the confusion. Should have been
“High fructose corn syrup”
But that said, fructose is fructose. High-fructose corn syrup is a mixture of glucose and fructose. Glucose is glucose.
Neither are carcinogens. What their sugar dump into your bloodstream does to your pancreas is another matter.
Mmmm hmmmm.
And, they’re just discovering this, now??
I mean, anything … but the thing.
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