First Evidence that Fructose is Bad

The (London) Times reports Child diabetes blamed on food sweetener. "Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis."

"Fructose bypasses the digestive process that breaks down other forms of sugar. It arrives intact in the liver where it causes a variety of abnormal reactions, including the disruption of mechanisms that instruct the body whether to burn or store fat. ‘This is the first evidence we have that fructose increases diabetes and heart disease independently from causing simple weight gain,’ said Kimber Stanhope, a molecular biologist who led the study. ‘We didn’t see any of these changes in the people eating glucose.’"