Time Magazine – Alarming Study of Corn Fructose Sweetened Softdrinks

In April 2009, Time magazine published an article summarizing the results of a 12-week study done by the researches at the University of California Davis. The study, according to the article, demonstrated that people drinking corn fructose sweetened beverages with each meal “showed signs of unhealthy changes in their liver function and fat deposits. In this group, the liver churned out more fat, while the subjects consuming similar amounts of glucose sweetened drinks showed no such change.”

“The fructose-drinking volunteers also were not as sensitive to insulin, the hormone released by the pancreas to capture and break down glucose in the blood and store it as fat. Insulin insensitivity is one of the first signs of diabetes. These subjects also gained more visceral fat, the dangerous kind that embeds itself between tissues in organs such as the heart and liver and secretes hormones and other chemicals that throw off the body’s normal metabolism, setting the stage for atherosclerosis and heart attack.”
[Source: Time Magazine]

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