Study fails to isolate whether weight loss or calorie source was cause of health impact ATLANTA (October 29, 2015) — In the recent study “Isocaloric Fructose Restriction and Metabolic Improvement in Children with Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome,” the authors allege that sugar, more specifically fructose, causes health-related problems that are independent of...
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Robyn Flipse, MS, MA, RDN When it comes to solving a mystery, most viewers of TV crime shows know that good forensics will unravel the case. They’ve seen how detectives use scientific methods to gather all the evidence they need to nab the right suspect and win a guilty verdict....
Read More ATLANTA (March 13, 2015) — The recent study in Nature by Suez et al. (2014) led to another round of warnings about the use of non-caloric sweeteners based on the authors’ conclusions that “artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota” and that their “findings suggest that NAS may have...
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Findings presented in a study titled “Compared to Sucrose, Previous Consumption of Fructose and Glucose Monosaccharides Reduces Survival and Fitness of Female Mice” by Ruff et al.1 should be interpreted with caution. The authors overstate that “This study provides unique experimental evidence that the consumption of a 1:1 ratio of...
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