Fructose-rich beverages and risk of gout in women Choi HK, Willett W, Curhan G. Fructose-rich beverages and risk of gout in women. JAMA. Nov 24 2010;304(20):2270-227 In a November 2010 paper, Choi et al. 1 concluded that consumption of fructose-rich beverages is associated with increased risk of incident gout in...
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"Substituting non-nutritive sweeteners for sugars added to foods and beverages may help people reach and maintain a healthy body weight – as long as the substitution doesn’t lead to eating additional calories later as compensation. For people with diabetes, non-nutritive sweeteners used alone or in foods and beverages remain an option...
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An apple a day may keep the doctor away but according to a group of Australian researchers, a fiber-rich diet could hold the key to keeping asthma, diabetes and arthritis at bay. Scientists at Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research say that fiber boosts the immune system so it can...
Read More To the Editor: In their recent article, Vos and McClain1 paint a grim picture of dietary fructose, likening its effect to alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis and liver injury and thereby ‘‘defining targets for therapeutic interventions.’’ The case for such interventions is unsupported, built as it is on inappropriate extrapolation of highly...
Read More Increased Fructose Associates with Elevated Blood Pressure Jalal DI, Smits G, Johnson RJ, Chonchol M. Increased fructose associates with elevated blood pressure. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010; 21: 1543-1549. Jalal et al. investigated whether increased fructose consumption from added sugars is associated with an increased risk for higher blood pressure...
Read More International Journal of Obesity advance online publication, 31 August 2010; doi:10.1038/ijo.2010.170 In a recent paper, Perez-Pozo et al.1 concluded that high doses of fructose raise blood pressure and cause features of metabolic syndrome, and that fructose may therefore have a role in the current epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Their...
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