From soup to soda, viscous waves of high- fructose corn syrup wash over the landscape of processed food. HFCS is cheaper and usually sweeter than sucrose, sugar made from cane or beets.

Sugar sales climbed again after the war, and today the average American consumes 130 pounds a year, much of it in the form of cheap, abundant high-fructose corn syrup. Sugar has become so ...

However, the majority of studies so far haven't found a connection, and most in the medical industry maintain there is no known link between sugar and hyperactivity. Still, many concerned parents ...

Insulin is a hormone made in your pancreas, a gland located behind the stomach. It allows your body to use glucose for energy. Glucose is a type of sugar found in many carbohydrates. The body ...

Impaired glucose tolerance, also called prediabetes, occurs when blood sugar levels are higher than normal but too low to be classified as diabetes. Symptoms may not be noticeable, but risk factors ...

In one study, HG-induced injury was modeled in the H9C2 cardiomyocyte cell line. BBR was pretreated at 100 nM for 30 min, followed by the addition of 50 mM D-glucose for 24 h. The results demonstrated ...

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